I think Phil Klein has it right on how Trump will end his candidacy.
6 thoughts on “With A Whine, Not A Whimper”
Iowa was one of the states in the last election cycle that was thrown for Romney IMHO. I don’t buy that Trump is wrong here until I see better evidence than bragging about how whiny he is.
I’m a Cruz supporter, and even I find what happened to Carson very suspicious. From what I’ve seen so far, it looks like foul play. I can certainly see where Carson has a good case. I’m hoping it was not ordered by Cruz.
Trump, though? I don’t see how he’s a victim, UNLESS pretty much all of Carson’s lost votes (assuming several percent here) went to Cruz, and so far I’ve seen zero proof of that.
Ugh… I do wish all the R camps would save the dirty tricks stuff for November.
If I had a dollar for every one of these “It’s all over for Trump!!” articles I’ve seen… seriously, it’s like the we’re-all-going-to-die-from-global-warming BS, but both parties can play.
Well I won’t say it’s all over for Trump. But he’s made three serious mistakes:
1) Not building a ground game in Iowa.
2) Not showing up for the Fox debate and
3) Whining that the Iowa election was stolen.
The first was a tactical error. Perhaps Trump believed his own propaganda. It happens.
2 and 3 are the sorts of things that destroy a candidacy.
Whining isn’t valued.
A couple things.
One is that people need to fill the dead airtime and people needs something to talk and talk and talk about. Think CNN.
Two, the poles (no, polls, yes, Mika Brzezinski) had Mr. Trump gaining a decisive lead in Iowa and then bam!, he almost came in 3rd. For the longest time the conventional wisdom was that Senator Cruz would edge him out on account of ground game, blah, blah, getting out to meet voters, blah, blah, blah, but the polls were showing “movement” that Mr. Trump would win this thing decisively.
Weren’t the polls showing Senator Sanders to be narrowing the gap with Secretary Clinton but wasn’t the near tie a surprise? Spin, spin, spin, spin, Ms. Clinton is a winner and Mr. Trump is now a loser, but I guess Mr. Trump set himself up for that for calling people losers and now whining when he lost.
Isn’t there a legend that if the presumptive front-runner sees a long shadow on the morning after the Iowa Caucuses, there will be 6 more weeks of the primary election season? I say, let’s see how New Hampshire turns out, but even that is not decisive in a long race, by South Carolina we may have a clear idea, and by Super Tuesday, it will pretty much be over with.
Cruz could hold up voters at the polls and force them to vote for him at gunpoint, and his supporters would STILL support him, to coin a phrase.
Iowa was one of the states in the last election cycle that was thrown for Romney IMHO. I don’t buy that Trump is wrong here until I see better evidence than bragging about how whiny he is.
I’m a Cruz supporter, and even I find what happened to Carson very suspicious. From what I’ve seen so far, it looks like foul play. I can certainly see where Carson has a good case. I’m hoping it was not ordered by Cruz.
Trump, though? I don’t see how he’s a victim, UNLESS pretty much all of Carson’s lost votes (assuming several percent here) went to Cruz, and so far I’ve seen zero proof of that.
Ugh… I do wish all the R camps would save the dirty tricks stuff for November.
If I had a dollar for every one of these “It’s all over for Trump!!” articles I’ve seen… seriously, it’s like the we’re-all-going-to-die-from-global-warming BS, but both parties can play.
Well I won’t say it’s all over for Trump. But he’s made three serious mistakes:
1) Not building a ground game in Iowa.
2) Not showing up for the Fox debate and
3) Whining that the Iowa election was stolen.
The first was a tactical error. Perhaps Trump believed his own propaganda. It happens.
2 and 3 are the sorts of things that destroy a candidacy.
Whining isn’t valued.
A couple things.
One is that people need to fill the dead airtime and people needs something to talk and talk and talk about. Think CNN.
Two, the poles (no, polls, yes, Mika Brzezinski) had Mr. Trump gaining a decisive lead in Iowa and then bam!, he almost came in 3rd. For the longest time the conventional wisdom was that Senator Cruz would edge him out on account of ground game, blah, blah, getting out to meet voters, blah, blah, blah, but the polls were showing “movement” that Mr. Trump would win this thing decisively.
Weren’t the polls showing Senator Sanders to be narrowing the gap with Secretary Clinton but wasn’t the near tie a surprise? Spin, spin, spin, spin, Ms. Clinton is a winner and Mr. Trump is now a loser, but I guess Mr. Trump set himself up for that for calling people losers and now whining when he lost.
Isn’t there a legend that if the presumptive front-runner sees a long shadow on the morning after the Iowa Caucuses, there will be 6 more weeks of the primary election season? I say, let’s see how New Hampshire turns out, but even that is not decisive in a long race, by South Carolina we may have a clear idea, and by Super Tuesday, it will pretty much be over with.
Cruz could hold up voters at the polls and force them to vote for him at gunpoint, and his supporters would STILL support him, to coin a phrase.
Bob Clark