# Trump's Republican primary campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 202
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4026 "2016-04-30T01:42:32Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > I found this article on the [Jacksonian Tradition](http://denbeste.nu/external/Mead01.html) in America incredibly insightful. While geared mainly towards foreign policy, Mead does a superb job of describing the attitudes of “Jacksonian America” in general really well and as a result probably provides the best explanation of why TRUMP is so popular in this election cycle. Nor is this merely a theory being written to fit the evidence as the article was written in 1999. Thanks for the link. There may be something to that analysis. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4027 "2016-04-30T02:13:37Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [From here.](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-487-job-titles-learned-finances-today/story?id=32622993) > According to his financial statements he filed when he declared his candidacy, he has 487 job titles. If not one of those is “Generalísimo”, or “King of Scotland” I’ll be very disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4028 "2016-04-30T02:55:48Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > If not one of those is “Generalísimo”, or “King of Scotland” I’ll be very disappointed. _Princeps_, _Dux Bellorum_, _Primus Inter Pares_, _Augustus_ _Huángdì_, and _Autokrator_ of the Old Name. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4029 "2016-04-30T11:01:41Z")
So now that it looks increasingly likely that Trump will be the Republican candidate this fall, can someone set my mind at ease about him losing? I always say be careful what you wish for. What if he actually won? I see no sense in tempting fate. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4030 "2016-04-30T12:12:25Z")
I don’t think he will win. But it depends on how many people are so angry they just say, “Fuck it, burn it all down!” If they are in the majority, America is lost anyway. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4031 "2016-04-30T12:57:11Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There’s no way he could possibly run that many companies day to day. Which are honorary and which are real? The President doesn’t run the Department of Energy day to day; he has a guy for that. The President doesn’t run things day-to-day at the FBI, either; he has – well, he has an Attorney General, who has too much on _her_ plate to run the FBI’s day-to-day operations, but _she_ has a guy for that. The President doesn’t run day-to-day operations on any given aircraft carrier; he has a Secretary of Defense, who – is pretty busy with the Army and the Air Force, of course; but who has a Secretary of the Navy who, in turn, has a guy running day-to-day operations on each ship. There’s no way a President could possibly run that many things day-to-day, right? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4032 "2016-04-30T13:20:45Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > There’s no way a President could possibly run that many things day-to-day, right? The President also doesn’t list Director of the FBI as one of his titles. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4033 "2016-04-30T15:08:38Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > The President also doesn’t list Director of the FBI as one of his titles. I’ve heard the President described as “the chief law-enforcement officer”, though. (Then again, I’ve also heard the Attorney General described that way; and where does it end? Could he get official confirmation that he’s, uh, the boss of the boss of the Director of the FBI – the way the title of “commander-in-chief” kinda sorta gets listed separately from “president”, even though it’s part and parcel of that one job?) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4034 "2016-04-30T16:04:33Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’ve heard the President described as “the chief law-enforcement officer”, though. Perhaps by others, but not by himself. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4035 "2016-04-30T16:38:36Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Perhaps by others, but not by himself. [Pedantic grammar hijack]“Not by himself” means “not alone.” We don’t know what he calls himself when he’s alone. You mean either “not by him” or, if you want the emphasis, “not by him, himself.”[/Pedantic grammar hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4036 "2016-04-30T16:48:38Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I have to admit that I’m troubled by the presence of protesters outside Trump rallies. > > I’m all in favor of protests when actual leaders and policy makers are around. But Trump is none of those (and God willing, never will be). His only offense is being a blowhard and an asshole. Protesting because some unemployed gasbag is bloviating inside an auditorium is veering dangerously close to preemptively stifling speech. So Americans can’t crititicise a politician? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4037 "2016-04-30T16:53:11Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > So Americans can’t crititicise a politician? 😕 It’s not so much that. The problem is blocking streets and trying to prevent the politician from speaking. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4038 "2016-04-30T17:07:27Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Perhaps by others, but not by himself. Jimmy Carter [apparently](http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44901) did. _“I’m the chief law enforcement officer of our Nation. I’m the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.”_ I see where a former VP has said it, and where a sitting Senator has said it – but, yeah, near as I can tell, the President has also said it about himself. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4039 "2016-04-30T18:16:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s not so much that. The problem is blocking streets and trying to prevent the politician from speaking. Not to mention physically attacking attendees, damaging police cars, throwing rocks at motorists and attempting to physically block the politician from entering his own event. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4040 "2016-04-30T18:55:19Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [From here.](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-487-job-titles-learned-finances-today/story?id=32622993) > According to his financial statements he filed when he declared his candidacy, he has 487 job titles. That’s more titles than Queen Elizabeth has! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4041 "2016-04-30T19:04:46Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > He runs the people who run the companies. Not so difficult once you reach a certain size **and you have the talent to recognize, hire and motivate good people**. Trump hasn’t exactly demonstrated much of _that_ in this campaign. Lewandowski? Manafort? His slate of foreign policy advisers that nobody has ever heard of? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4042 "2016-04-30T19:56:38Z")
Speaking of California, here is the list of registered Republicans in California as of January by congressional district, along with what percentage of the total registered voters in that district are Republican - the list is sorted from fewest Republicans to most: (It’s in a spoiler space block so people who don’t want to see it don’t have to scroll through 53 lines of text) [spoiler]It’s in a code block as that’s the only way I can see to keep the columns aligned ```auto 13 27,209 6.84 34 28,560 10.88 12 30,619 7.72 40 31,204 12.63 44 34,870 11.21 37 35,887 9.45 29 40,112 14.24 51 45,395 19.02 17 50,507 18.56 35 51,022 23.01 43 53,417 15.5 14 54,090 16.02 20 62,308 20.56 46 62,570 27.11 19 63,351 22.55 21 63,430 30.98 6 68,244 22.06 5 71,012 20.45 15 73,125 21.31 16 73,439 29.14 32 77,909 24.44 28 79,134 20.07 2 81,006 20.8 18 81,485 23.04 41 82,101 32.21 11 82,514 23.06 38 84,589 23.89 53 89,400 26.27 31 89,624 33.73 30 91,555 22.94 27 96,116 26.23 9 97,078 31.47 3 98,062 30.61 47 98,505 27.34 36 99,204 36.87 8 103,316 39.47 26 108,255 32.43 24 115,186 33.6 10 116,031 38.91 52 120,099 33.44 33 120,265 26.3 42 126,455 44.06 7 128,064 35.37 39 131,656 38 25 136,276 37.11 49 136,307 39.72 22 139,518 44.83 23 139,605 44.61 50 143,522 44.63 1 153,220 40.56 45 160,511 42.26 48 164,919 43.11 4 175,401 43.88 ``` [/spoiler]What surprised me was, five of the seven districts with the fewest Republicans are in the Los Angeles area. Districts 13 and 12, I can understand; those are Berkeley/Oakland (Barbara Lee’s district) and San Francisco (Nancy Pelosi’s district). If you’re wondering why these numbers are significant, remember that California gives 3 delegates to the winner in each district, and, because it’s such a blue state, only 10 to the statewide winner. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4043 "2016-04-30T22:27:34Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Not to mention physically attacking attendees, damaging police cars, throwing rocks at motorists and attempting to physically block the politician from entering his own event. Unlike the physical attacks Trump supporters have been inflicting on anti-Trump protesters? Though I do abhor the attacks on police cars. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4044 "2016-04-30T22:43:30Z")
Yes, worse than the behavior of Trump supporters by several orders of magnitude. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4045 "2016-04-30T22:53:08Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Yes, worse than the behavior of Trump supporters by several orders of magnitude. How many of the Trump supporters were injured, vs. the number of protesters who have been injured? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828.md?page=201) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828.md?page=203)