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Politico's Prediction
Topic Started: Jan 11 2016, 01:27 AM (82 Views)
Catseye
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From yesterday's Politico post, excerpted:

Our most likely scenario today? Ted Cruz wins Iowa. Then Donald J. Trump rebounds in New Hampshire, and that's the barbed-wire, no-holds-barred, steel-cage match for the GOP championship . . . Trump continues to grow both as a candidate and a leader. He has demonstrated a brilliant ability to renew his campaign when many suspected he would exhaust himself. Increasingly, Trump makes other contenders look unimportant.

For a Republican Party maddened at seeing an inbred Washington establishment rationalize decades of failure, reward itself for the same, and then wipe the floor with those who object, Trump is a righteous avenger -- and he still has room to grow . . . Republicans see Trump as a turnaround CEO, coming to save their near-bankrupt company.

Should Hillary Clinton be favored to beat Donald Trump? Not necessarily. Donald Trump is above all a salesman . . . Trump would adapt, pivot, and do anything to make his next deal; winning the general election . . . With a 'new and improved' Trump, a bounce from a celebratory convention, and just a little progress with swing voters, Trump would enter the general election running a breath away from Hillary Clinton, a candidate with a hard base, a low ceiling, and [the] same worn, thin Washington-elite agenda most voters have outgrown.
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I keep thinking about an interview I saw last month in USA Today with a Donald Trump who presented very differently from what we've seen, more sober, calmer. I don't remember his exact words, but the meaning was to the effect that, if you read between the lines, his strategy has been all along to get people's attention in any way necessary, and then once he had bulled in and made a place for himself, settle down and act more responsibly and more like a political grownup. He indicated that the future face of Trump would be just that.
"How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
I think that is pretty accurate.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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