re: #313 Belafon

The Republicans would vote for a tree struck by lightning if it had an R next to its name. Our country is very polarized. All of the Democrats that would have voted Republican 35 years ago are Republicans now. All of the Republicans that would have voted for Democrats 35 years ago watch Fox news and believe unemployment has gone up over the last eight years.

And a landslide still isn’t measured in popular vote, it’s measured in electoral college.

Don’t get that worried. I don’t even think Obama’s margins in 2008 were this large right now, though don’t quote me on that. Plus, and it’s similar to Obama, Clinton is going to lose a few percent because she’s a woman.

I’m curious to see what polling says in some states that we don’t normally see a lot of numbers - Texas, the Great Plains states, etc. Having experienced the shift in California following Prop 187, I could see Trump doing something like that to Texas. I could also see general election voters being turned off by Trump’s shenanigans (keep in mind, the primary electorate is about a third of the electorate in the general) in some of those states that would normally vote for the Republican nominee. Perhaps I’m too optimistic that people will eventually realize that Trump is a dumpster fire rolling downhill…