"That only works when Republicans are not willing to go all out against you. They were afraid to do that against a man, however black he was"
You remembered things very differently than I did. Remember when Obama was a Muslim Marxist from Kenya? He won in 2008 because any Dem would have won in that environment, and won in 2012 because Rom…
"That only works when Republicans are not willing to go all out against you. They were afraid to do that against a man, however black he was"
You remembered things very differently than I did. Remember when Obama was a Muslim Marxist from Kenya? He won in 2008 because any Dem would have won in that environment, and won in 2012 because Romney sounded like an out-of-touch plutocrat at a time when the economy still wasn't the best. The attacks just fell flat because the working-class voters that decide every election thought that Obama was more relatable. The fact of the matter is, Trump is just better at relating. Despite his wealth, he learned how to talk like his working-class voters. Candidate quality and environment both matter. And this might sound preposterous, but Trump's candidate quality isn't bad at all, and he was running in a favorable environment for him.
"That only works when Republicans are not willing to go all out against you. They were afraid to do that against a man, however black he was"
You remembered things very differently than I did. Remember when Obama was a Muslim Marxist from Kenya? He won in 2008 because any Dem would have won in that environment, and won in 2012 because Romney sounded like an out-of-touch plutocrat at a time when the economy still wasn't the best. The attacks just fell flat because the working-class voters that decide every election thought that Obama was more relatable. The fact of the matter is, Trump is just better at relating. Despite his wealth, he learned how to talk like his working-class voters. Candidate quality and environment both matter. And this might sound preposterous, but Trump's candidate quality isn't bad at all, and he was running in a favorable environment for him.