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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
Mon Nov 30, 2015, 11:11 AM Nov 2015

So exactly what did account for the sudden 12% drop off in Trump's polling?

Was it:

A) Endorsing the idea of requiring American Muslims to register into a database;
B) Insisting that thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey were holding a "tailgate party" to celebrate the 9-11 attacks, and then when countered with the facts, insisting it still happened because he "saw it somewhere on TV" and that "my Twitter followers say it happened";
C) Visibly mocking a disabled reporter who countered him, and then demanding that he apologize to him for it ( ); or
D) Just the general realization that Donald Trump is an enormous douchebag bullshit artist who's full of hot air and completely at a lack of ideas.

To be honest, I just can't say if any of those were the factor. He seemed to have plateaued and stagnated, and then got a boost after the Paris attacks, perhaps because some people saw him as the "strongman" type. But when a strongman appears to be afraid of reporters to the point of mocking their disabilities, how strong can that strongman really be?

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951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
1. Listening to him ramble on and not actually put forth a coherent plan?
Mon Nov 30, 2015, 11:18 AM
Nov 2015

All we've been hearing is mexicans this, blacks that, disabled people this and women that.

Sorry Donald Drumpf but bashing minorities while repeating "Make America Great Again" ad-nauseam gets old, even for right wing racists.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
6. The numbers go up, the numbers go down. You can't explain that.
Mon Nov 30, 2015, 11:34 AM
Nov 2015

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