ext_3181 ([identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] tcpip 2015-09-19 02:57 am (UTC)

> I'm starting to wonder if we won't wind up with Trump vs. Sanders

That's exactly what I am expecting.

The issue with the Republicans is that they have relied so heavily on the wingnut right as an activist base that the lunatics have now taken over the asylum.

Something I have been watching carefully over the past several years is the demographic changes. US politics seems so heavily based on race-driven politics (rather than class) that if it is pitched at this level - and Trump certainly does this - that a loss is almost ensured.

This is an article which I've held onto for years... I am yet to be convinced that it is fundamentally incorrect.

http://nymag.com/news/features/gop-primary-chait-2012-3/

> Sanders is playing to the youth vote hard, and it might work-youth voting went up last election and Obama was re-elected.

That's a very interesting an important point in a voluntary voting environment.

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