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Measuring Donald Trump’s Mammoth Advantage in Free Media

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Unfortunately, this is going to teach a lesson to future candidates. Act like a moron, get on TV. Get on TV, get name recognition, earn a core of voters. Core of voters, success.

Anywho, for anyone who doubts that Trump is largely a media creation:



 
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Yes, Trump is a media creation -- and I agree that most of it is due to his personality. But it's not that he's playing the moron - it's that he's taking the entire establishment to task - in the most direct way possible. He's very direct in his manner of speech and that draws support. The other thing is that he's the TARGET of media attacks and humans, by nature, are drawn to anyone being persecuted that holds his ground.

When someone asks Trump about illegal immigration, he blurts out "Build a Wall." That's simple, straightforward and people like that, even if they don't think he can build that wall -- which he probably can't.

People are tired of candidates sugarcoating issues and they're especially tired of feeling as though the US is not respected as much as it once was. Trumps' "Make America Great Again" is the very thing they want. They want a chance to preserve part of a national identity that they feared was lost.

There are many reasons Trump is rising -- the media is just making it possible for him to do so without spending a lot of money.
 

What I've been saying the whole time.
Feeding the troll only makes it fatter.
 
I don't think the Trump message is anywhere near the message you are promulgating.

Trump's saying what the silent majority has been aching to hear. The Joe six packs, maybe even a lot of soccer moms that see that with the Charlie Hebdo and Paris attacks, the San Bernadino attack that, despite what our president assures us, that bad things can and will come here if we dont stop them outside of our borders. People want jobs, our economy has been allowed to languish far too long, our government more concerned with ideological issues than trying to take us to the top again [ like the mission of any corporation and should be of every country ]. Our borders our immigration situation, everyone can see it, are a mess. We keep falling behind in indicators like education, trade deficits, health care, etc...and our chances of infrastructure overhauling, because of Obama's inept involvement without real results, has been squandered... the list goes on. People are sick to death of it all. They know we have the talent to be the winners, but we don't win.

People think Trump a straight talker, one willing to go up against the fat cat insiders in both the public and private sectors, They, we, are tired of ending up, American ending up, on the losing side of deal. Every direction we turn all we can see on whatever horizon seems negative. Trump presses the hard, strong, positive can do message, the spirit everyone wants to have. And he has built things, actual things. He is not a hand me something kinda guy, but a we can get this back together and I will lead you on that path kinda guy.

I am not a huge fan, but he deserves all the media he gets. They, the media, does it 'cause people are watching, pure revenue for them. They hate him but he brings in the green. And they are whores, so if somebody will pay them, sure, they will suck it up.

People want an outsider to come in a mix it up, good, real good.
 
Gaugingcatenate said:
I don't think the Trump message is anywhere near the message you are promulgating.

Trump's saying what the silent majority has been aching to hear.
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No he hasn't. In fact, Trump now has a higher unfavorable rating than any presidential candidate that Gallup has ever polled. The "silent majority" you claim is (currently) 30% of the country, and is (currently) being rejected by 63% of the country. The majority of this nation don't want Trump, which is why he is currently also losing to Hillary Clinton (Hillary Clinton) 51 to 38.

People think Trump a straight talker, one willing to go up against the fat cat insiders in both the public and private sectors,
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Then that confirms my opinion of our public education system. Trump is a demonstrated and continuous liar, who has demonstrated over the course of his lifetime that he is a fat cat in both public and private sectors, and he has stated he intends to govern that way. And people seem unable to put two and two together.

People want an outsider to come in a mix it up, good, real good.
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So they're gonna hire an insider. Brilliant move.
 

..... okay. Think about that for a second.
 
Its not really working for Vermin Supreme.
 
VanceMack said:
Its not really working for Vermin Supreme.
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True. You need some name-recognition to get you there first. Perhaps one of the Kardashians can run in 2020. That'll be fun.
 
Yeah yeah yeah. I will just wait and believe the election day polls, thanks anyway. Over the Hillary hardly even out debates BS, the puffball, Sanders.

Will be fun to watch the cage match between Trump and Hill. Trump swinging and over-the-Hillary ducking, weaving flashing that big disingenuous smile with all the cameras rolling on her. She has just so much more material to attack against. Just might have to go pay per view on that, though.



Who of the two, Trump and Over the Hillary, is more responsible for the state of our education system? Between the two, Over the Hillary and Trump, who has earned more of their fatcatedness with their own hard work? Of the two, who is the bigger liar? Of the two, who is more likely to get indicted?



cpwill said:
So they're gonna hire an insider. Brilliant move.
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Either way that's gonna happen. But brilliant observation.
 
Gaugingcatenate said:
Yeah yeah yeah. I will just wait and believe the election day polls, thanks anyway. Over the Hillary hardly even out debates BS, the puffball, Sanders.
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There have been few constants so consistent in this race as the insistence by Trump fans that math doesnt count.



Trump is seen as Strongly Unfavorable by 50+% of the populace. That's BEFORE a BILLION dollars gets dropped on him.


Hillary, Hillary, Very Close, but Trump by a hair, and Somewhat Close but Hillary by a little.

Either way that's gonna happen.
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Well, no. Cruz could still win. We will see.
 
No, it's because he moves the ratings needle. This really isn't hard to figure out, though it does goes against the persecution complex some have.
 
cpwill said:
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There have been few constants so consistent in this race as the insistence by Trump fans that math doesnt count.
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Well, as your are wrong again, you might become that constant even more consistent. I am not a Trump fan, not a Trump detractor, either. Between him and anybody on the other side, he is the much better. Just telling it like I see it. This isn't math, you were talking about polls. Lots of factors besides math in polls. Lots.




cpwill said:
Trump is seen as Strongly Unfavorable by 50+% of the populace. That's BEFORE a BILLION dollars gets dropped on him.
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At least a third of the electorate will hold him unfavorable no matter what, they are on a different team. That leaves less than 15% as his true unfavorables. This 15%+- are less ideological and I have no doubt, when they start to actually pay attention, and its down to him and over the hillary, they wont be putting a check mark next to the lesser Clinton name. Maybe if she changed her name to Bill she might win. Heck, I couldn't stand Trump at all until after I have kind of gotten used to him. Still don't love him, but my god, the alternatives on the other side? After we have suffered through these last 7 going on 8 feels like a hundred in prison, years? C'mon.



cpwill said:
Hillary, Hillary, Very Close, but Trump by a hair, and Somewhat Close but Hillary by a little.
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Previous to this reply I thought I might be having a discussion with a rational person.



cpwill said:
.Well, no. Cruz could still win. We will see.
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Cruz is my man, and he is the least of the insiders still really viable in the race.... But I don't think you can consider him an outsider. Ben Carson would have been the most with Cruz then Trump, coming at it from different angles, ... depending on how you define insider.
 
cpwill said:
True. You need some name-recognition to get you there first. Perhaps one of the Kardashians can run in 2020. That'll be fun.
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Or Kanye.

Personally...Im still holding out hope for Dwayne Comacho to throw his mother****ing hat in the ring.
 
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