The Republican Downfall Is Greatly Exaggerated

[ill]

Many Mass. Democrats Switched To Republican Party Ahead Of Super Tuesday

Rep Lynch: Fleeing Dems are ‘a warning sign’ for the party


In the liberal haven of Massachusetts, the Democratic Party is losing its grip. 20k registered Dems just gave up their party affiliation and became independents (majority) and some switched parties altogether (minority). Democrats are losing their grip on this liberal state. IMO, I think this trend will follow across the nation. Trump's hidden liberalism will usher people into a New Republican Party.

Two of the state’s top Democrats today reacted with concern today to a Herald report that almost 20,000 Massachusetts Dem have left the party since January — warning that the party must move toward the center or risk losing votes to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

“That’s not a good sign for the Democratic Party,” Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) said of the voter roll switches in a Boston Herald Radio interview. “I think in some cases the Democrats pull so far to the left that a lot of people can’t identify with that. I think that’s a danger. I think in the past presidential elections, the party that is able to grab the center wins, and we have to be mindful of that. I think Hillary (Clinton) is very good at that. I think that she’ll be able to grab the center in the final, especially if she’s up against Donald Trump. I think that’s a warning sign, that people are abandoning the Democratic Party.”

The Herald reported today that nearly 16,000 Bay State Democrats are now unenrolled independents, and another 3,500 have switched sides to the GOP since Jan. 1.

 

[ill]

Random note: Our Republican Governor Charlie Baker will be President in 2020. I'll put real money on it

 

[CHL]

warning that the party must move toward the center or risk losing votes to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

 

[Tate]

If the democrats plan in the general is to run a bourgeois campaign built upon moderate social liberalism and austerity, which it appears to be, then I truly think trump can win.

Dems seem to think the key to winning is pealing off the last few social moderates in the GOP and appealing to the decency of suburban voters. Basically a plea to the mitt Romney wing. To do this, I expect the democrats will track right economically. They will reject new social programs(paid leave is the main one I'm thinking of atm) as irresponsible and stress the need to get people up and working and off welfare(which basically doesn't exist). I think you'll definitely see tactic acceptance of the legacy of welfare reform if not a full throated embrace.

In general I expect a lot of left punching. She'll very often talk about being a moderate, how she regects the excesses of both left and right.

If trump cools some of his more overt racism, he can win with the right campaign. If he hammers her on Wall Street, trade, and corruption, he can drive down democratic turnout and win support from sanders blue collar and non-ideological followers. Trump can effectively continue sanders strongest critiques of Clinton and really further them. His lack of shame and willingness to not retreat from accusations of sexism or impropriety are uniquely advantageous here.

 

[plushcarpet]

Republicans run almost 80% of the country at the state/local level and control congress

sometimes dems are so high on their pedestal they get lost in the clouds

 

[Wild self]

So you saying that Trump is the new Reagan?

The reason he is so popular is because White America is indeed dying and want one last great hurrah of an Adolf Hitler style leader before their inevitable extinction.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Republicans run almost 80% of the country at the state/local level and control congress

This is what Im saying

The caliph has arms and legs; in November it will get its head

Then its boom bye bye infidels (everyone besides Christian white males)

 

[SirReginald]

If the democrats plan in the general is to run a bourgeois campaign built upon moderate social liberalism and austerity, which it appears to be, then I truly think trump can win.

Dems seem to think the key to winning is pealing off the last few social moderates in the GOP and appealing to the decency of suburban voters. Basically a plea to the mitt Romney wing. To do this, I expect the democrats will track right economically. They will reject new social programs(paid leave is the main one I'm thinking of atm) as irresponsible and stress the need to get people up and working and off welfare(which basically doesn't exist). I think you'll definitely see tactic acceptance of the legacy of welfare reform if not a full throated embrace.

In general I expect a lot of left punching. She'll very often talk about being a moderate, how she regects the excesses of both left and right.

If trump cools some of his more overt racism, he can win with the right campaign. If he hammers her on Wall Street, trade, and corruption, he can drive down democratic turnout and win support from sanders blue collar and non-ideological followers. Trump can effectively continue sanders strongest critiques of Clinton and really further them. His lack of shame and willingness to not retreat from accusations of sexism or impropriety are uniquely advantageous here.

Agreed with this whole statement and I've been saying the same thing.

 

[Calmye]

Republicans run almost 80% of the country at the state/local level and control congress

sometimes dems are so high on their pedestal they get lost in the clouds

Been trying to say this for the longest

 

[Robbie3000]

Republicans run almost 80% of the country at the state/local level and control congress

sometimes dems are so high on their pedestal they get lost in the clouds

If it wasn't for Dem voters not showing up for mid-terms, especially in 2010, it would look completely different.

 

[Calmye]

If the democrats plan in the general is to run a bourgeois campaign built upon moderate social liberalism and austerity, which it appears to be, then I truly think trump can win.

Dems seem to think the key to winning is pealing off the last few social moderates in the GOP and appealing to the decency of suburban voters. Basically a plea to the mitt Romney wing. To do this, I expect the democrats will track right economically. They will reject new social programs(paid leave is the main one I'm thinking of atm) as irresponsible and stress the need to get people up and working and off welfare(which basically doesn't exist). I think you'll definitely see tactic acceptance of the legacy of welfare reform if not a full throated embrace.

In general I expect a lot of left punching. She'll very often talk about being a moderate, how she regects the excesses of both left and right.

If trump cools some of his more overt racism, he can win with the right campaign. If he hammers her on Wall Street, trade, and corruption, he can drive down democratic turnout and win support from sanders blue collar and non-ideological followers. Trump can effectively continue sanders strongest critiques of Clinton and really further them. His lack of shame and willingness to not retreat from accusations of sexism or impropriety are uniquely advantageous here.

If she does this Trump will win for sure in the lowest turn out in resent history.

 

[ill]

Trump’s Mass. appeal: One factor that explains the Republican frontrunner’s popularity

According to a Suffolk poll released Saturday, the billionaire draws support relatively evenly from Western Massachusetts to Cape Cod, from men to women, from young to old, from independents to registered Republicans.

But there is one other category—within the Republican primary electorate, at least—that is most associated with support for Trump. Ironically, it’s the same association Republicans generally disdain.

Union membership.

Another observer of this year’s presidential campaigns, President Barack Obama, explained why Trump’s proposals appeal to the blue-collar workers, via NPR:

When you combine that demographic change with all the economic stresses that people have been going through because of the financial crisis, because of technology, because of globalization, the fact that wages and incomes have been flatlining for some time, and that particularly blue-collar men have had a lot of trouble in this new economy, where they are no longer getting the same bargain that they got when they were going to a factory and able to support their families on a single paycheck, you combine those things and it means that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear.

 

[Calmye]

If it wasn't for Dem voters not showing up for mid-terms, especially in 2010, it would look completely different.

but they didn't show up.... That's kinda point of voting.

 

[Calmye]

Trump’s Mass. appeal: One factor that explains the Republican frontrunner’s popularity

unions voting Republican

 

[plushcarpet]

If it wasn't for Dem voters not showing up for mid-terms, especially in 2010, it would look completely different.

Dems only vote every 4yrs and only when you beg them to
been that way for a while

that's why I don't like the party