re: Only Rubio can win

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almost anyone other than Trump could have beaten Clinton easily.

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What makes you think this is not still accurate?

how much easier does it get than a republican clearing 300 in the EV?

Rubio/jeb couldn't win the rust belt.

Kasisch probably wins Ohio and Penn but he can't bring florida along.

Also how do Rubio,Jebra, Kasich or whoever handle the leftist media attack on every word? they don't, history shows that traditional republicans have folded to the left when it attacks.

They also didn't have Trumps rally and ground game. It wasn't traditional but it worked really well. None of them could have pulled that off.

This is like the stupid people that believe somehow bernie would beat Trump due to polls. The polls were clearly wrong, and they forget things like Bernie never had to stand up to Trump attacks and ground game.

he got over 300 in the EC and won states that dems believed were firewall states.

It was extremely smart by Trump. FWIW I think if we did something stupid like allowed popular vote to decide then Trump would have ended up winning that as well. He had a targeted strategy on how he could win. He took states that no one ever imagined were in play.

Once illegals votes get thrown out Trump would clear the popular vote as well.

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What electoral map would you have projected to where he didn't need the rust belt?

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Several.

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If you honestly hold that the GOP must win Michigan/Wisconsin in the future, I don't know what to tell you.

He won by 100k, total, in those states. This election was more about how terrible the candidates were. The only surprise is that Republicans were able to stomach theirs more than the Democrats.

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Sentrius

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What? He needs a hail mary at this point. Absolutely no more scandals, staying the frick off twitter, and completely crushing the debate and more hillary bad news. Two of those are in his control, the other two are beyond his control and he can just pray for those to happen. Trump having a 30% chance to win the election is beyond generous right now.

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its much better owning the rust belt. We lock that in and we can continue to pound the dems over and over.

Then again this is politics and they swing wildy every 8 years. A few years ago, maybe even months we were told republicans would never win the executive branch again.

The good news for the right is that the left isn't coming to the center to try and recapture the lost workers of the rust belt. They are doubling down on the coastal strategy and SJW strategy. Its stupidity since they already run the east and west coast.

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We lock that in

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Why do you think that will happen. Democrats will not run Hillary Clinton again, and holding out hope for another election like this is naive.

and it worked didn't it? Trump ran an extremely efficient campaign and beat the dems, the media and half his own party.

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Why do you think that will happen. Democrats will not run Hillary Clinton again, and holding out hope for another election like this is naive.

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do you see what they are doing? they are going more extreme. So they will run someone worse than Hilliary and they have lost the rust belt dem. Rather they turn out and vote R or stay home they aren't voting D as long as they keep going more SJW.