Let's talk about Rump's ground game, lol...WHAT ground game?

[Dafinch]

[h=1]Trump ground game: Striking out in Cincinnati, or just coming to bat?[/h] [h=4]posted at 5:21 pm on August 11, 2016 by Ed Morrissey[/h]
Has the Trump campaign derailed in a key Ohio county before the general election even gets under way? Is it time to write off Ohio? According to sources from my book Going Red, which featured Hamilton County and its major metropolitan area Cincinnati as keys to GOP presidential hopes, not so fast. The story began yesterday when Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Jeremy Fugleberg reported on an internal e-mail which suggested that Team Trump’s efforts are in disarray:

With the presidential election 90 days away, the Donald Trump campaign is scrambling to set up the basics of a campaign in Hamilton County, a key county in a swing state crucial to a Republican victory, a recent internal email obtained by The Enquirer shows.
The campaign has yet to find or appoint key local leaders or open a campaign office in the county and isn’t yet sure which Hamilton County Republican party’s central committee members are allied with the Republican presidential nominee.
“If they are against us, we just need to know,” wrote Missy Mae Walters, Southwest Ohio regional coordinator for the campaign.
Even campaign materials, such as signs and stickers, aren’t yet available.
“We have been promised they’re on their way,” she wrote.
​

How much of a problem is this really? A source within Hamilton County GOP leadership tells me that the stories are largely overblown. “We just got out of a bruising primary,” the source told me, so he’s not surprised that the Trump campaign may be off to a slower start than Romney was in 2012. It’s also worth noting, although this source didn’t mention it, that the convention took place six weeks earlier than in 2012, too. Meanwhile, enthusiasm for Trump in Hamilton is significantly higher than four years ago. “If we need 50 volunteers” for a function, he says, “we’d get 75” just by asking. (Fugleberg also noted the presence of a “fervent volunteer base” for Trump.) The local GOP and the Trump campaign has had “very productive meetings” recently, and he believes that the organization added to the enthusiasm boost will allow Trump to campaign effectively in Hamilton and southwestern Ohio.
This source scoffed at the issue of signs and stickers. “Democrats don’t have yard signs out yet either,” he tells me, “and yard signs won’t make a difference in this presidential election. Name ID isn’t an issue.” Another issue that arose in other media reports, the resignation of a central committee member over Trump’s nomination, was a similarly overblown topic. In the previous cycle, a handful of people on the 400+-member central committee resigned over Romney’s nomination, in one case specifically because of “Romneycare.” “It happens every cycle,” the source insists.
Hamilton County’s importance is no mirage, as my book explains. For several decades, Hamilton was more Republican than the rest of Ohio, but Barack Obama won it two elections in a row — and it will take a very sustained effort to win it back. That requires a superior campaign, and a candidate willing to break outside of ideological paradigms and address the concerns of the hardworking families still left in Hamilton:

After two straight shocking losses in Hamilton, Republicans should understand that they need to reconnect with voters and demonstrate that they have recovered in what should be a GOP stronghold. But a loss in Hamilton would almost certainly doom Republicans in Ohio, and with it, their hopes of winning back the White House. …
Mostly, though, Hamilton County voters want someone who gets things done. “People are pretty pragmatic down here,” Lou says. “Tell me something is going to work. Don’t give me all of this [ideological] stuff. What’s going to work? How do you attack the problem? Give me something I understand. I want to understand how that is going to affect my family.”
Commissioner Hartmann agrees. “We’ve still got a tremendous amount of challenges in this country, and I think problem solver is going to carry the day,” he says. “Democrats won because they projected more of an ability to focus on the economy that affects their lives. That’s going to again determine the next presidential election in the next cycle—who can do the best job at being a problem solver and fixing a lot of these problems.”
Competence and pragmatism will attract people to the Republican candidate, says Zac Haines. “Say let’s make government more efficient and more effective,” he advises, but “then you have to go a step further. Why are we doing these [policies]? Make sure people who need help get it quicker, better, and faster,” Haines answers. “And so we don’t have to raise taxes and have jobs, and good companies who provide jobs don’t leave our state and or go upstate. That’s the extra step. We don’t go the extra step. We’ve got to finish off the answer.”
Reprinted (or Adapted) from GOING RED: THE TWO MILLION VOTERS WHO WILL ELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT—AND HOW CONSERVATIVES CAN WIN THEM Copyright © 2016 by Ed Morrissey. Published by Crown Forum, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
​

Did the Trump campaign get off to a slower start in Hamilton than Republicans might have hoped? Yes, but the reports of “disarray” and despair seem exaggerated. As my source noted with no small amount of frustration, “This is what we mean when we talk about media bias.”

 

[Dafinch]

N.H. Republicans Worry About Trump’s Weak Ground Game
August 11, 2016
By Anthony Brooks

SALEM, N.H. — Donald Trump's presidential campaign has run into trouble, as the GOP candidate continues to shock and offend with controversial statements.
The most recent verbal bombshell was an apparent suggestion that "Second Amendment people" could stop Hillary Clinton. Trump is facing defections by prominent Republicans and slumping poll numbers.

And now there's concern among Republicans in New Hampshire that Trump's campaign field operation is all but absent in the state.
On a recent evening here in Salem, some 20 volunteers worked at a Democratic Party phone bank, reaching out to voters. The walls were covered with campaign posters for Democrats — including Maggie Hassan, who's running for Senate, and Clinton for president.
Fifteen-year-old Matthew Allen, from Andover, Massachusetts, was among the people working the phones. “So, have you decided if you're going to support Hillary Clinton for president this coming November?" Allen asked one of his respondents.
This is what a late-summer presidential campaign looks like.
It’s part of what Granite State Democrats call the "New Hampshire Together Coordinated" campaign — a grassroots effort to support candidates up and down the ballot.


"We've already got 11 field offices opened up, dozens of staffers working in every corner of the state,” said Ray Buckley, chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.
According to Buckley, Democrats have thousands of volunteers working in phones banks, knocking on doors, and organizing campaign house parties. He said this kind of field organization can make a big difference come Election Day — particularly in a swing state like New Hampshire.
"One only has to look at the 2014 results, where across the country in every purple state, Democrats were in danger and many, many lost,” Buckley said. “But here in New Hampshire, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was reelected, and Gov. Maggie Hassan, despite being outspent, was reelected. And that had everything to do with the ground game."
The Democratic ground game counts on cooperation between the state party, local and statewide campaigns and Clinton's presidential effort. By contrast, on the GOP side, this kind of coordinated effort with Trump's campaign is missing, according to many concerned Republicans in this state.


"If you are a Trump supporter and want to get a sign for your yard, there's no place to go and get it," said Fergus Cullen, the former chair of the state GOP.
Cullen is not a Trump supporter, but he is worried that a lack of organization in the state will hurt the rest of the Republican ticket.
“At this point, we would traditionally have regional field offices that are being opened that are basically funded by the presidential campaign,” Cullen said. “But none of that is happening. The lack of coordination and funding on the Trump campaign means there is no organized get-out-the-vote effort, and that's going to have significant consequences down-ballot."
It's an understatement to say that Trump has defied political convention in his bid for the White House. During the primary, that meant he did few traditional New Hampshire-style campaign events — like town hall meetings where he could engage directly with voters. Instead, he counted on big rallies and free media coverage — as he did just last weekend in the town of Windham.
But Cullen said Trump's appearance in Windham was the latest sign that he's waging a campaign in New Hampshire virtually alone — without the support of many Granite State elected Republicans.
"The president of the New Hampshire state Senate wasn't there; the speaker of the New Hampshire House wasn't there; Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Congressman Frank Guinta weren't there; the state party chair wasn't there,” Cullen said. “You're only going to see more of that as candidates flee what they perceive as a sinking ship."


The Clinton campaign has 11 regional offices and three get-out-the-vote centers and dozens of paid campaign staff members. By contrast, the Trump campaign has no regional offices, no get-out-the-vote-centers and a much leaner staff.
But Stephen Stepanek, a state representative and the co-chair of the Trump campaign in New Hampshire, said he's not worried.
"The Trump campaign has had an office in New Hampshire since April of 2015,” Stepanek said. “[Mitt] Romney didn't open up an office until September. So, we've been on the ground well before Trump even announced he was running for president."
Stepanek acknowledges that Clinton has many more paid staff in the state. But he argues that the Trump campaign has a deep database of supporters, and a willing army of volunteers from inside and outside of New Hampshire, ready to knock on doors and get people to the polls.
"That's always been a key for Republicans,” Stepanek said. “I've got hundreds and hundreds of Massachusetts volunteers who are coming now to New Hampshire to start working for us. I was just talking with Texas, and they want to send 500 volunteers to New Hampshire."
Trump has defended the relatively small size of his campaign staff by tweeting "Small is good and flexible," suggesting it saves money. So part of this is just the way Trump operates.

But Andy Smith, who heads the polling center at the University of New Hampshire, argues that there are historical reasons — quite apart from Trump — that explain why Democrats have a big organizational advantage in New Hampshire.
"For a century, the Democratic Party had been the minority party in the state and didn't have access to the people or financial resources that the Republicans had,” Smith said. “Consequently, Democrats had to rely on manpower to try to get voters out to the polls. And they built a very good get-out-the-vote operation over the past several decades."
That built-in Democratic organizational advantage is all the more reason that many Republicans in New Hampshire are worried about Trump's current effort in the state.
But Corey Lewandowski, a New Hampshire resident and Trump's former national campaign manager, doesn’t buy the gloomy outlook, and suggests it’s always risky to bet against Trump.
“New Hampshire is a battleground state, and Donald Trump knows how important it is to win it for the general election," Lewandowski said. “I think the Clinton campaign should continue to underestimate the Trump campaign. The mainstream media has done that this entire cycle, and continues to say, Trump doesn't have a ground game — but he won 38 states."
And the first of those 38 states that Trump won was New Hampshire.

 

[superbeets]

N.H. Republicans Worry About Trump’s Weak Ground Game
August 11, 2016
By Anthony Brooks

SALEM, N.H. — Donald Trump's presidential campaign has run into trouble, as the GOP candidate continues to shock and offend with controversial statements.
The most recent verbal bombshell was an apparent suggestion that "Second Amendment people" could stop Hillary Clinton. Trump is facing defections by prominent Republicans and slumping poll numbers.

And now there's concern among Republicans in New Hampshire that Trump's campaign field operation is all but absent in the state.
On a recent evening here in Salem, some 20 volunteers worked at a Democratic Party phone bank, reaching out to voters. The walls were covered with campaign posters for Democrats — including Maggie Hassan, who's running for Senate, and Clinton for president.
Fifteen-year-old Matthew Allen, from Andover, Massachusetts, was among the people working the phones. “So, have you decided if you're going to support Hillary Clinton for president this coming November?" Allen asked one of his respondents.
This is what a late-summer presidential campaign looks like.
It’s part of what Granite State Democrats call the "New Hampshire Together Coordinated" campaign — a grassroots effort to support candidates up and down the ballot.


"We've already got 11 field offices opened up, dozens of staffers working in every corner of the state,” said Ray Buckley, chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.
According to Buckley, Democrats have thousands of volunteers working in phones banks, knocking on doors, and organizing campaign house parties. He said this kind of field organization can make a big difference come Election Day — particularly in a swing state like New Hampshire.
"One only has to look at the 2014 results, where across the country in every purple state, Democrats were in danger and many, many lost,” Buckley said. “But here in New Hampshire, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was reelected, and Gov. Maggie Hassan, despite being outspent, was reelected. And that had everything to do with the ground game."
The Democratic ground game counts on cooperation between the state party, local and statewide campaigns and Clinton's presidential effort. By contrast, on the GOP side, this kind of coordinated effort with Trump's campaign is missing, according to many concerned Republicans in this state.


"If you are a Trump supporter and want to get a sign for your yard, there's no place to go and get it," said Fergus Cullen, the former chair of the state GOP.
Cullen is not a Trump supporter, but he is worried that a lack of organization in the state will hurt the rest of the Republican ticket.
“At this point, we would traditionally have regional field offices that are being opened that are basically funded by the presidential campaign,” Cullen said. “But none of that is happening. The lack of coordination and funding on the Trump campaign means there is no organized get-out-the-vote effort, and that's going to have significant consequences down-ballot."
It's an understatement to say that Trump has defied political convention in his bid for the White House. During the primary, that meant he did few traditional New Hampshire-style campaign events — like town hall meetings where he could engage directly with voters. Instead, he counted on big rallies and free media coverage — as he did just last weekend in the town of Windham.
But Cullen said Trump's appearance in Windham was the latest sign that he's waging a campaign in New Hampshire virtually alone — without the support of many Granite State elected Republicans.
"The president of the New Hampshire state Senate wasn't there; the speaker of the New Hampshire House wasn't there; Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Congressman Frank Guinta weren't there; the state party chair wasn't there,” Cullen said. “You're only going to see more of that as candidates flee what they perceive as a sinking ship."


The Clinton campaign has 11 regional offices and three get-out-the-vote centers and dozens of paid campaign staff members. By contrast, the Trump campaign has no regional offices, no get-out-the-vote-centers and a much leaner staff.
But Stephen Stepanek, a state representative and the co-chair of the Trump campaign in New Hampshire, said he's not worried.
"The Trump campaign has had an office in New Hampshire since April of 2015,” Stepanek said. “[Mitt] Romney didn't open up an office until September. So, we've been on the ground well before Trump even announced he was running for president."
Stepanek acknowledges that Clinton has many more paid staff in the state. But he argues that the Trump campaign has a deep database of supporters, and a willing army of volunteers from inside and outside of New Hampshire, ready to knock on doors and get people to the polls.
"That's always been a key for Republicans,” Stepanek said. “I've got hundreds and hundreds of Massachusetts volunteers who are coming now to New Hampshire to start working for us. I was just talking with Texas, and they want to send 500 volunteers to New Hampshire."
Trump has defended the relatively small size of his campaign staff by tweeting "Small is good and flexible," suggesting it saves money. So part of this is just the way Trump operates.

But Andy Smith, who heads the polling center at the University of New Hampshire, argues that there are historical reasons — quite apart from Trump — that explain why Democrats have a big organizational advantage in New Hampshire.
"For a century, the Democratic Party had been the minority party in the state and didn't have access to the people or financial resources that the Republicans had,” Smith said. “Consequently, Democrats had to rely on manpower to try to get voters out to the polls. And they built a very good get-out-the-vote operation over the past several decades."
That built-in Democratic organizational advantage is all the more reason that many Republicans in New Hampshire are worried about Trump's current effort in the state.
But Corey Lewandowski, a New Hampshire resident and Trump's former national campaign manager, doesn’t buy the gloomy outlook, and suggests it’s always risky to bet against Trump.
“New Hampshire is a battleground state, and Donald Trump knows how important it is to win it for the general election," Lewandowski said. “I think the Clinton campaign should continue to underestimate the Trump campaign. The mainstream media has done that this entire cycle, and continues to say, Trump doesn't have a ground game — but he won 38 states."
And the first of those 38 states that Trump won was New Hampshire.

Great articles always save the best statement for last.


Because they know, the last statement has the most effect.

 

[superbeets]

Trump ground game: Striking out in Cincinnati, or just coming to bat?

posted at 5:21 pm on August 11, 2016 by Ed Morrissey


Has the Trump campaign derailed in a key Ohio county before the general election even gets under way? Is it time to write off Ohio? According to sources from my book Going Red, which featured Hamilton County and its major metropolitan area Cincinnati as keys to GOP presidential hopes, not so fast. The story began yesterday when Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Jeremy Fugleberg reported on an internal e-mail which suggested that Team Trump’s efforts are in disarray:

With the presidential election 90 days away, the Donald Trump campaign is scrambling to set up the basics of a campaign in Hamilton County, a key county in a swing state crucial to a Republican victory, a recent internal email obtained by The Enquirer shows.
The campaign has yet to find or appoint key local leaders or open a campaign office in the county and isn’t yet sure which Hamilton County Republican party’s central committee members are allied with the Republican presidential nominee.
“If they are against us, we just need to know,” wrote Missy Mae Walters, Southwest Ohio regional coordinator for the campaign.
Even campaign materials, such as signs and stickers, aren’t yet available.
“We have been promised they’re on their way,” she wrote.
​

How much of a problem is this really? A source within Hamilton County GOP leadership tells me that the stories are largely overblown. “We just got out of a bruising primary,” the source told me, so he’s not surprised that the Trump campaign may be off to a slower start than Romney was in 2012. It’s also worth noting, although this source didn’t mention it, that the convention took place six weeks earlier than in 2012, too. Meanwhile, enthusiasm for Trump in Hamilton is significantly higher than four years ago. “If we need 50 volunteers” for a function, he says, “we’d get 75” just by asking. (Fugleberg also noted the presence of a “fervent volunteer base” for Trump.) The local GOP and the Trump campaign has had “very productive meetings” recently, and he believes that the organization added to the enthusiasm boost will allow Trump to campaign effectively in Hamilton and southwestern Ohio.
This source scoffed at the issue of signs and stickers. “Democrats don’t have yard signs out yet either,” he tells me, “and yard signs won’t make a difference in this presidential election. Name ID isn’t an issue.” Another issue that arose in other media reports, the resignation of a central committee member over Trump’s nomination, was a similarly overblown topic. In the previous cycle, a handful of people on the 400+-member central committee resigned over Romney’s nomination, in one case specifically because of “Romneycare.” “It happens every cycle,” the source insists.
Hamilton County’s importance is no mirage, as my book explains. For several decades, Hamilton was more Republican than the rest of Ohio, but Barack Obama won it two elections in a row — and it will take a very sustained effort to win it back. That requires a superior campaign, and a candidate willing to break outside of ideological paradigms and address the concerns of the hardworking families still left in Hamilton:

After two straight shocking losses in Hamilton, Republicans should understand that they need to reconnect with voters and demonstrate that they have recovered in what should be a GOP stronghold. But a loss in Hamilton would almost certainly doom Republicans in Ohio, and with it, their hopes of winning back the White House. …
Mostly, though, Hamilton County voters want someone who gets things done. “People are pretty pragmatic down here,” Lou says. “Tell me something is going to work. Don’t give me all of this [ideological] stuff. What’s going to work? How do you attack the problem? Give me something I understand. I want to understand how that is going to affect my family.”
Commissioner Hartmann agrees. “We’ve still got a tremendous amount of challenges in this country, and I think problem solver is going to carry the day,” he says. “Democrats won because they projected more of an ability to focus on the economy that affects their lives. That’s going to again determine the next presidential election in the next cycle—who can do the best job at being a problem solver and fixing a lot of these problems.”
Competence and pragmatism will attract people to the Republican candidate, says Zac Haines. “Say let’s make government more efficient and more effective,” he advises, but “then you have to go a step further. Why are we doing these [policies]? Make sure people who need help get it quicker, better, and faster,” Haines answers. “And so we don’t have to raise taxes and have jobs, and good companies who provide jobs don’t leave our state and or go upstate. That’s the extra step. We don’t go the extra step. We’ve got to finish off the answer.”
Reprinted (or Adapted) from GOING RED: THE TWO MILLION VOTERS WHO WILL ELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT—AND HOW CONSERVATIVES CAN WIN THEM Copyright © 2016 by Ed Morrissey. Published by Crown Forum, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
​

Did the Trump campaign get off to a slower start in Hamilton than Republicans might have hoped? Yes, but the reports of “disarray” and despair seem exaggerated. As my source noted with no small amount of frustration, “This is what we mean when we talk about media bias.”

Great articles always save the best statement for last.


Because they know, the last statement has the most effect.

 

[Dafinch]

[/B][/COLOR]Great articles always save the best statement for last.


Because they know, the last statement has the most effect.

There's a difference between running against the brain dead schmucks in the Republican party and running in a general election, and you're about to find that fact out the hard way. It's gotta be sweet when you're sent scurrying back down into your rat hole...

 

[roadreeler57]

I already won the Trump primary win @ +450.....Now the Presidency @ +800.....Piece of cake.......!

 

[Dafinch]

I already won the Trump primary win @ +450.....Now the Presidency @ +800.....Piece of cake.......!

Yes, of COURSE you did, and you used the proceeds to buy a car and go to a Rump rally with 100,000 people, right? Btw, I didn't hear you comment about his rally a day or two ago where many people walked out. I wonder why?

 

[superbeets]

 

[roadreeler57]

Yes, of COURSE you did, and you used the proceeds to buy a car and go to a Rump rally with 100,000 people, right? Btw, I didn't hear you comment about his rally a day or two ago where many people walked out. I wonder why?

He didnt suggest somebody pop Hillary but we sure see a lot of deaths & suicides in her wake in articles all over the net just google it...I think the total body count is up to about 40 now...The rally here was about 4,000 in Democrat territory with generally good press afterwards....

 

[SmallDaddy]

Hillary is playing 3d Chess while Trump is playing 3d Candyland

 

[roadreeler57]

Hillary is playing 3d Chess while Trump is playing 3d Candyland

Thats exactly what Trump wants you to think...156 IQ means hes no dumbass....

 

[Dafinch]

Thats exactly what Trump wants you to think...156 IQ means hes no dumbass....

And, how's that "crazy like a fox" strategy working out for him so far? Oh, that's right, all those polls that have accurate for many years are dead wrong, and, YOU, with your impeccable record for honesty and accuracy, are sure that those Facebook likes and twits on twitter, are right. ROTFLMAO!!!!!

 

[Dafinch]

Maybe Rump IS a "plant" by the Dems, it's impossible that he's this stupid, isn't it?!?!Hey, Road Kill and Sick Brit Twit, how are those Facebook/twitter/secret polls coming?:nohead::think2::missingtehno:ointer:


[h=1] Donald Trump’s (Lack Of A) State-By-State Strategy Is A Big Problem [/h] The issue isn't going after voters in all 50 states. The issue is doing it poorly.

Jane Coaston 08/16/2016


When Donald Trump asked the Republican National Committee to open offices for him in all 50 states, the committee responded with confusion. One anonymous source called it a "fool's errand." Hillary Clinton will have offices in all 50 states, investing even in regions that will likely vote for Trump anyway. So why is it so ridiculous for Trump to do the same?
There are a number of problems with Trump's "50 state strategy." First and foremost, Trump doesn't actually care about winning big in states that lean Democrat (think Michigan or North Carolina, both of which have a strong GOP presence in state legislature and could go red in November). That's not impressive enough. Rather, he "thinks [he] can win" in states like New York and California — states that haven't voted for a Republican president since Reagan and Bush Senior, respectively, and aren't about to start now. Flipping states is expensive, though; in North Carolina, the Obama campaign spent more than $15 million on ads to shove the state into its win column — and won by just 0.4 percent of the vote. In comparison, Trump has spent absolutely nothing on ads in Virginia or Ohio. And unlike Trump in 2016, the 2008 Obama campaign went hard after battleground states like North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida — not, say, Alabama.


Secondly, while Trump demands that the RNC set up offices in strongly Democratic states, his campaign presence in states that will matter to an actual, real-life Republican presidential victory is virtually nonexistent. Take Ohio. Hamilton County, where Cincinnati is located, had only voted for a Democrat four times in the 100 years before Barack Obama won it in both 2008 and 2012. It's one of the most critical — and conservative — metropolitan areas in the state, and no Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio.
But Trump doesn't have an office in Hamilton County yet (Hillary Clinton has three, with two more opening soon). The RNC has been working with volunteers in the area for several years, but the GOP nominee hasn't even sent out posters. And though Trump is closing a few offices in blue states he probably wouldn't win anyway (like New Jersey), he's still laser focused on states like Connecticut, which Obama won by 18 percentage points in 2012. Major staffing shortages in Florida and Pennsylvania, two vital states for Republicans, are putting even down-ticket GOP candidates (like state representatives and Senate candidates) at risk. Meanwhile, Trump wants to open an office in Hawaii.

Dr. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, told MTV News that Trump's strategy is ludicrous. "It’s a waste of Trump’s time and money to campaign [in Connecticut]. Trump simply must carry Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania to have any serious chance of winning. Half or more of his time should be spent there. But instead, Trump is found in Connecticut, a heavily Democratic state with no real affinity for Trump. There are less than three months until election day."
Sabato added that the increased diversity of America means that the electoral map, which is always in flux, could turn even traditionally red states blue (and keep blue states voting for Democrats, despite Trump's best efforts). "In the 1980s, all minority voters combined were no more than 15 percent of the electorate," he said. "This November, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Muslim-Americans will comprise about 30 percent of the electorate — and they vote over 80 percent Democratic. This has changed the complexion of many states." Sabato also noted that his native Virginia voted for Republicans from Nixon to George W. Bush — and then voted for Obama twice.

This strategy could be based on the idea that there were thousands of "missing" white voters in 2012 — that is, voters dissuaded by Mitt Romney but inclined to vote for someone more appealing to a blue-collar demographic. And Trump did win big in primaries in blue states like Massachusetts and Vermont. The problem is, primaries aren't the general election, and while Trump is still winning with white voters without college educations, he's losing college-educated white voters, who haven't voted Democrat since 1956. He's not gaining new voters, just losing old ones.
Trump's "50 state strategy" isn't bad because he's going after voters in all 50 states. Prior presidential candidates have had success in wide swaths of the country (Richard Nixon won 49 out of 50 states in 1972, and Ronald Reagan lost only Minnesota in 1984). The issue with Trump's strategy is that — much like his foreign policy proposals — he doesn't appear to actually have one. He's campaigning in deep blue states with little electoral importance (sorry, Connecticut), while in must-win states like Florida and Ohio, he's barely trying. He's not spending money on ads (or anything else, for that matter). And though his fund-raising efforts are starting to pay off, the RNC can't afford to support both him and down-ticket candidates engaged in tough elections (and many Republicans want to give up on Trump altogether).
A "50 state strategy" presidential campaign strategy isn't wrong. But Donald Trump's version is. He's focusing on states he can't win while losing support in states he could, and he's costing the RNC millions in the process. And with less than three months to go until Election Day, time is not on Trump's side.

 

[NFLTrends]

I've always found the idea of felching loads out of a guy to be hot. I've felched one guy that my hubby had fucked first, and loved it so much, I got hard and fucked the guy like a mad man. So I'd love to hear other guys felching stories, and why you like felching. How many loads would one suggest a bottom should take, to make a good felching session? Has anyone felched anonymouse loads out of a bottom at a book store, or theather? Please share your felching experiences.

Gross man.... I guess thats why they call you DaFelch

 

[Dafinch]

He didnt suggest somebody pop Hillary but we sure see a lot of deaths & suicides in her wake in articles all over the net just google it...I think the total body count is up to about 40 now...The rally here was about 4,000 in Democrat territory with generally good press afterwards....

Do you EVER stop lying, Scumbag? If things are going so great, why are heads rolling in his campaign, Jagoff? And he brilliantly takes people who have NEVER run a major campaign, shrewd...ointer:^^:hahahahah^^:trx-smly0:kissingbb:nohead::bigfinger:missingte

 

[HamGlaze]

Obama: "Hahahahaha, Say it for us."

Hillary: "Well I'm all like what do you want me to do? They're ALL DEAD! Hahahahaha"

Obama: "heheheheee"

 

[Dafinch]

Is that you clowns got? You're reduced to posting dumb fucking pictures and captions? Guess you schmucks are waving the white flag even more than Rump is. Read it and weep, motherfuckers...ointer:^^:hahahahah^^:trx-smly0:kissingbb:nohead::bigfinger:missingte

 

[NFLTrends]

"Is that all you clowns got?" I told the BBC's here for the gangbang. They were pounding my ass good, and I couldnt wait for them to pull out of me, to cum in my boyfriends ass, cause I get pure pleasure out of sucking their seed out of it. Thats the best part of my homosexual reationships, is when my partner lets me felch him.

Wow, DaFelch strikes again!!

 

[HamGlaze]

ointer:^^:hahahahah^^:trx-smly0:kissingbb:nohead::bigfinger:missingte

Speaking of dumb fucking pictures

 

[NFLTrends]

Speaking of dumb fucking pictures

Between the pictures and his felching, its hard to understand what the clown is trying to say