(October 27, 2016 at 3:54 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I think Moore is totally mistaken about Trump winning, but he is right that Trump knows how to manipulate a dumbed-down population. But I don't think Moore took into account the number of different groups Trump has offended. Plus Moore is totally underestimating the voting public. True, sometimes it seems like the general public is a big group of total morons, but I think everyone can see Trump for who he is, and can see that he's totally unprepared to be president.
A few years ago a Republican strategist named Whit Ayers said that whoever the 2016 GOP candidate would be would need to win record numbers of the Hispanic vote, and minorities in general, in order to win the presidency since the white conservative male voting block is shrinking by about 4% every year. There's no way Trump wins very much of the Hispanic vote. Women are overwhelmingly supporting Hillary for obvious reasons, and Trump hasn't given black voters any reason to vote for him. Saying "You live in squalor, what do you have to lose?" is not a good strategy.
There are two types of voters, moralists (douche bags who want to legislate/legislators who follow/play by pop culture rules.) and those who want government to simply provide a economically stable country and a relative safe environment so they can do or live how ever they want. Moralists want to tell people how to live via government and the other half (lets call them traditionalists as these were the founding principles of the constitutions) want just the raw materials/minimal government to build their own lives.
The problem with this election the moralist votes is splintered. On one side you have the fanatics who will always vote down party lines as they've been trained to think this way. But, it is with this thinking other 1/2 that creates an issue. They see the candidate offered by the party is herself not moral. Now while they will not vote for the other guy, they can not vote for this immoral candidate simply because she represents the party.
You Wrongfully assume that all non white males are moralists. It's not about race gender or religion. That is why Clinton's campain has all but failed. Because she is waging the traditional campain that assumes her base is subdivided into race/gender groups. Their is an extra variable here that she is not counting/Which is why she is not 50 points ahead, and why this is a close race despite what the propaganda says. It's her, or rather it is her own immorality and questionable character that has subdivided her base. and why her moralist agenda is falling on deaf ears outside the per-programed people her 'educated elites.'
