I have worked on the phones for about 30 years. I think I’ve dealt with a fairly representative cross section of the public. I’m not who you are talking about here.
I still say 90 days is an extreme exaggeration of the human memory for things deemed important which I’d assume these issues would be if a person is going to bother to vote.
If voting was mandatory I’d be more willing to lower my estimates on this. It seems to me that the mythical low attention span voter is a myth used to explain a phenomenon that the experts can’t explain too well.
Also, if this is true, why the 24 year hate of Hillary Clinton? That wasn’t forgotten in all this time. It’s been 4 years since she was in the administration and no one has forgotten what she did there. Do voters only forget certain things they’d rather not deal with?
You raise a lot of good points. Some of which are answered by the presence of echo chambers.
But I’m not surprised by the rise of Trump. People like excitement. We may have enough mature people in this country to prevent a Trump presidency this year.
That’s where I started but over the last year my opinion of people has started to drop. I do think ( hope ) that the mature people are starting to make this happen. Either that or even the immature folks just aren’t that immature.
“[He] represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character… He speaks for the werewolf in us; the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts on nights when the moon comes too close…” ~~Hunter S. Thompson, upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.
Not sure you picked the best example there. Check out this graph of her approval ratings over that 24 years. “Wildly fluctuating” would be a fair description. Some of the troughs and peaks in her Gallup favorability rating during that time:
The latest Gallup number from this week is 39%. Her lowest point was in July, 37%. But there have been three different times that she bounced back from ratings in the 40s or 30s to ratings well into the 60s, plus another time that she just missed (2007, at 58%). And it was only four years ago that she enjoyed one of her highest ratings (66%). I’m not sure if there has ever been another case like this with a universally known public figure, but she’s definitely not the example to use to show that voters aren’t fickle in their opinions about people.
I don’t think it will be a matter of a last straw breaking the camel’s back, but each new fuckup will add another piece to the narrative that Clinton and her surrogates are building about Trump: that he is temperamentally unfit to be president. The GOP will never abandon him en masse, but each new incident will prompt another defection or two, and encourage a few more voters to conclude they have better things to do on November 8 than punch a ballot.
Face facts. Clinton isn’t building the narrative about Trump being temperamentally unfit; Trump’s doing that. Clinton’s just happily riding along with it.
I read a Tweet the other day that summed up this election (sorry, I can’t remember who wrote it).
If the election was about Clinton, Trump would win.
If the election was about Trump, Clinton would win.
Both candidates agree they want the election to be about Trump.
It’s not the same thing as a flip flop which I didn’t really need a video compilation for. He’s clearly not embarrassed about paying low taxes so he’s not releasing his returns for another reason.
Huh. I thought I’d misheard that, or it was some sort of audio glitch or something. It looks like Ol’ Dime-store Donnie’s the one short-circuiting now.
At a rally in Florida tonight, Trump starts criticizing Clinton because at one of her rallies recently the father of the Orlando nightclub shooter was sitting in the stands just behind Hillary. Trump then says when you’re giving a rally you should know who you put in the stands behind you. He gestures back to the people behind him and says they got those seats because they know him.
One of those people sitting behind Trump: Mark Foley, former Republican congressman who resigned in disgrace amidst allegations that he sent sexually explicit emails and instant messages to teenage boys working as congressional pages.
I’ve heard people saying that having the pedophile Mark Foley in the audience was because Trump was wanting to show his support for NAMBLA. Maybe this goes along with Trumps major funding for NAMBLA? Who knows? All I know is that Top People are discussing it. You tell me what’s going on here.
