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2016 Postmortem

Trust Buster

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2. To me, it is not about how many people voted for Trump. He did worse than Romney. It is about

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Original post)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 10:18 AM

Dec 2016

the 46% of eligible Americans that couldn't be bothered to vote with a maniac on the ballot and the Supreme Court hanging in the balance. That, my friend, is the much bigger problem.

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Would ted Cruz have won the same voters trump did [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 OP

I don't think so JHan Dec 2016 #1

To me, it is not about how many people voted for Trump. He did worse than Romney. It is about Trust Buster Dec 2016 #2

Many in this country, millions, take far too much for granted! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2016 #4

it is about a choice between two candidates that had record high negatives NRQ891 Dec 2016 #5

Cruz would have gotten Evangelicals and traditional republican talking point voters NRQ891 Dec 2016 #3

"Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line." BobbyDrake Dec 2016 #6

There is no denying that part of Trump's base is racist/misogynist Txbluedog Dec 2016 #8

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2016 #11

Don't know if he'd have won the same, but the polls indicated he'd have won more voters than Trump mtnsnake Dec 2016 #7

It's not about more or less, per se La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #9

The problem with Cruz... texasmomof3 Dec 2016 #10

He would have won by a larger margin. Exilednight Dec 2016 #12

No Vogon_Glory Dec 2016 #13

Nope nevergiveup Dec 2016 #14

I think no. trump was the "change" candidate - Cruz was just more of the same. nt jmg257 Dec 2016 #15