There’s a minor paradigm shift happening at Gallup apparently. See this chart for evidence.
Favorability polling on Republican candidates includes Jim Webb.
Both the ladies and the men like Santorum equally - I was a little taken aback by that.
What clever wiles! Of course I can’t ever appear to be defending someone a Republican labels as a rapist because of his skin color and national origin! That would sure cause me to melt down!
I think you - and most dopers - could handle it. The US population as a whole, I’m not so sure about.
As I said before, I don’t follow politics much so many of my opinions may seem off the wall.
There are now three political parties.
The Democrats, the Republicans, and the party gestating inside the Republicans.
Trump is the baby kicking.
Somehow, I think my fellow feminists can figure it out.
Women are more religious than men, so I’m not surprised that religious conservatives would do better among women than conservatives with a more secular bent.
But that’s what I don’t get. It seems that there has been no huge outcry, or the kind of outcry I would have assumed from such a statement. He made the statement, lots of people were pissed off, and nobody had an effective counter.
I don’t think it really has anything to do with feminists per se (that is a different path to go down) but it seems as if liberal and even moderate thinkers have just really lost a large segment of the population in such a complete way that extreme statements and positions are now acceptable.
Umm . . . . there’s another meaning for the word santorum:p
To paraphrase Jack Warner, “No, no. Jimmy Stewart for president. Trump for that sleazy real estate developer, Mr Potter.”
It may be early in the season, but I already have a daughter claiming she’ll do the classic “move to Canada if Trump’s elected” thing. :rolleyes:
What bugs me is that Trump isn’t actually honest. Much as people mistake partisanship for extremism, people often mistake bluntness for honesty.
This is nothing new. Only a Pawn in Their Game is exactly about this. But I agree it is still true today.
For the win.
Although I’m not sure so it’s a baby. It might be an Alien Alien (film) - Wikipedia
One can acknowledge white privilege and still think the methods chosen to correct it are poorly thought out.
Of course. I don’t think that’s what’s happening in the Trump circus, though. I don’t see a lot of nuanced discussion of racism or ethnocentrism.
I don’t know about you, but come November I’m voting Lord Vetinari for Lifelong Benevolent Dictator.
I think you and I don’t experience reality the same way.
I’m fascinated to hear that liberals and moderates are to blame for Donald Trump being a racist asshole that some conservatives are embracing.
Like I said, I am not really a political person and I do not think my thoughts are necessarily reality, but they are some of the actual thoughts I have had on the subject. If it is something that I can share with people and have an interesting conversation about then it is worth discussing.
Your tone sounds very dismissive and heated so I’m not really interested in continuing any conversation on this subject with you.
True, but there’s not much nuance in Black Lives Matter either. That’s why Trump should lead if he wants to be taken seriously. Democrats have responded to the racial angst in their base by proposing concrete solutions. Trump hasn’t done that.
Damn… should have read **LSLGuy’s **post first. Ninjaed!