Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 9 minutes later[^][v]#630,629
CYCLE PARTY FALL POLL LEADER PARTY VOTERS FOLLOWING CLOSELY WON NOMINATION
2016 Republican Donald Trump 82% —
2008 Democratic Hillary Clinton 75
2008 Republican Rudy Giuliani 74
2012 Republican Mitt Romney 74 ✔
2004 Democratic Howard Dean 55
1988 Democratic Jesse Jackson 51
1988 Republican George H.W. Bush 51 ✔
2000 Republican George W. Bush 50 ✔
2000 Democratic Al Gore 44 ✔
Polls as you can see do not necessarily forecast who wins the party nomination.
In fall 2007, Rudy Giuliani was leading in the Republican primary, and John McCain, the eventual 2008 nominee, was in fourth place.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#630,667
@previous (B)
Shut the fuck up syntax, no one cares about your Google searches.
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 4 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#630,721
@630,629 (B)
They thought Jesse Jackson was going to win the Democratic nomination in '88?
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 5 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#630,726
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Jackson captured 6.9 million votes and won 11 contests: seven primaries (Alabama, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico and Virginia) and four caucuses (Delaware, Michigan, South Carolina and Vermont). Jackson also scored March victories in Alaska's caucuses and Texas's local conventions, despite losing the Texas primary. Some news accounts credit him with 13 wins. Briefly, after he won 55% of the vote in the Michigan Democratic caucus, he was considered the frontrunner for the nomination, as he surpassed all the other candidates in total number of pledged delegates.
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Metæ joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#630,773
@630,629 (B)
All but Jesse Jackson were mainstream establishment career politicians. Trump is I think the closest we've seen in a long time to a genuine outsider. Also he has the nuclear option of going third party and handing the election to Hillary ala Ross Perot.
Anonymous B replied with this 10 years ago, 28 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#630,775
@previous (Metæ)
Trump does well with under educated men. Exactly the opposite with men who have college degrees.
Trump is doing poorly with moderate republicans. Has no Latino backing. Trump is well aware the mainstream party people despise him.
Party officials dare not let Trump run as independent.
The betting markets currently have Trump at 22% of winning the nomination. I have this guy who has filled my wallet in the past two Pres elections. His accuracy on predictions is beyond reproach. However he currently cannot state for a fact that Trump has less then the 22% but he believes this is the case.
My guy the other day said "But if you want to think about this in a technical way: it’s not just that Trump has no support from his party. It’s that the party is actively looking to stop him because he’d be a catastrophe as their nominee."
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 20 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#630,779
Trump pols well with uneducated backwoods white trailerpark rednecks who practice incest.