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Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore
"Ashamed"? No, that ain't it.
When people are hit - in public - with tire irons for wearing Trump shirts...
when cars are vandalized and tires slashed for having a Trump (hell, any GOP candidate's) sticker...
when people are called racist, and stupid, and xenophobic, etc., and publicly Doxxed for supporting a national candidate...
don't you think a large segment of that voting block is going to clam up - or outright deny their position - to save their health, property and reputation?
SlaveNo(so yes, the polls are way the fuck off)More
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The "correctness" is annoying. BUT... Trump has been a uniquely enormous douchebag, and done nothing to repudiate the actual bigots at his rallies. Lay down with dogs...
AND, the polls are so bad that, mathematically, the hidden Trump vote - which is very real - will not come close to bridging the gap.
Trump's biggest problem is with people like us. We could vote for almost any GOP candidate because, why not? I mean -- Hillary's a fine centrist at heart, and probably won't raise taxes... but why take a chance on her if you've got a sure thing? But Trump? He's just too fucking stupid. He's potentially worse than Hillary, so those of us who would've voted GOP are forced to use the same calculation on Trump... "I don't know what that guy's going to do, but there's a solid possibility it'll cost me more than what Hillary might, so why take a chance?"
I don't give a stale fuck about his claptrap on walls or his idiot stance on Muslims.* That's all bullshit for the lowest common denominator voter. What's rendered Trump unqualified for my vote is his sheer stupidity. It's one thing to be an outsider with a disruptive plan. I'd welcome that. It's quite another to be a fool with no clear agenda or understanding of the job he's seeking.
Trump will lose with people like you and me, and without us, he's not winning the popular vote.
I'm voting Johnson in the desperate hope he and Weld get enough traction to vault the Libertarian Party to a level where it will significantly inform D and R platforms in the future.
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* I do recoil at his Nixonian "law and order" pitch, but again - that's just bullshit for the Archie Bunker voters.
