Politics Unfiltered

[the ollie reed fan club]

(09-01-2016 07:15 PM)Warlord Wrote:  Cruz would be up by double digits if he were the nominee. The media could've never gotten him off his game, no matter what they tried.

He would've been a staunch conservative, and laid the case againt Hillary and the Dems perfectly.

Trump has a cult of personality built around him now. He's a movement. Either enough people get pulled in or they don't, but I don't see either him or Hillary pulling in a ton of new voters barring something unpredictable.

Cruz could've done W-like numbers with moderates and minorities, which would've all but guaranteed him the victory in November. Trump can't and won't. He'll win if he can get enough whites to the polls.

Clearly I haven't followed the election as closely as you but I'm pretty sure I've followed it a helluva lot more closely than many Americans, LOL and one thing I have done a bit of research on was just how hated Ted Cruz was. He really didn't seem like an electable guy. Elections in America do seem to revolve a lot around the 'cult of personality' as you rightly point out and I'm not sure how a drab candidate like Cruz, with the mainstream liberal media so heavily weighted in Hilary's favour could've done any better.