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What's fascinating to me is that going into the campaign Ted Cruz was supposed to be that populist.
I respect him but he's not a populist. He plays well to the hard right and the religious right, that's it. His bedside manner is at times fascinating, at times condescending, at times clueless. He doesn't exactly exude charisma
I personally think you have it backwards. I think only a small part is the "broken party" part. I think the majority is pent up white rage. Not so much because of Obama, but I think the cumulative effect of the Al Sharptons/Jesse Jacksons of the world, political correctness, Black Lives Matter, the transgender issue, illegals, welfare, and all that stuff. Then you have Trump saying to a large extent what people have been thinking. So no, this is not a function of a broken party. This is a function of a populist candidate tapping into some pent up anger.
There's only white rage in a very very small subset of the white population in this country. Obama came into office with very high approvals and optimism.
Regarding this part, the Democrats have never used the Super Delegates to override the public and I strongly doubt they ever would.
Don't try to confuse GroveDiesel with the facts. Present Democratic Party Super Delegate rules were adopted in 1984 and have yet to ultimately decide the nominee, having always reflected the will of the voters.
They did from the very beginning this year. It's how Sanders won the popular vote in several states and yet lost in delegate count in those same States. None of those Superdelegates had to announce who they were supporting, but they all did so in order to create a narrative that Clinton was the true frontrunner and inevitable. Sure, they could have changed their vote when the time came, but it's clear that they used their outsized power to create and early narrative and perception.
I mean political correctness in general. Black Lives Matter, illegals, transgender, feelings on Syrian immigrants and the like. People are tired of being told their conservative opinions are wrong because they're not politically correct.
Well stated. Primarily it was 20 other candidates splitting up 75% of the vote early while Trump coasted with a rock solid 25%. Even still, there was a chance to stop him but freaking Kasich is the most clueless man on the planet. He continued to stick around even though he was mathematically eliminated and siphoned enough of the "nevertrump" vote to keep Cruz from making inroads. Kasich essentially handed this nomination to trump.
I don't think that people who refuse to vote from Trump or Hillary deserve to get branded as the knuckle-draggers or kooks of this election. Both parties nominated #### candidates this time around. Especially the Democrats, but especially the Republicans. (Paraphrasing Sideshow Bob here).
Okay, fair enough. Still, especially in the case of the GOP, I don't think it's fair to criticize people for not backing their party's nominee. No principled right-winger of any stripe, evangelical, libertarian, whatever -- should be supporting Trump.
The establishment backing Rubio after his New Hampshire meltdown and knowing he had little chance to win his own state was a major blunder
Yeah but the people have spoken, Trump collected votes against what the GOP thought was their best stock. I mean we can't really disregard the will of the people can we?
Hey like I said, the GOP electorate made their bed. They can now kindly lie in it for all I care.
