Wednesday, August 17, 2016

EZRA KLEIN AT VOX TELLS US WHY TRUMP IS LOSING AN ELECTION THE GOP SHOULD BE WINNING

++Nate Silver says the same. We assume both parties will hire the best teams available and will engage in a ground game, one side being better than the other, and the nominee will be qualified at a policy level. Then the fun begins. Ezra Klein writes that based on these assumptions it was widely thought the GOP would win this time and he cites polls showing Rubio and Kasich ahead of Clinton.

++But Ezra points to John Podesta and his record. "This is not his first radio." And Steven Bannon who has never run any campaign and has none of the qualifications to run a campaign. Klein points to the fact that Bannon at Breibart engages in anti-semitic and anti-Muslim conspiracies. He does want to persuade but reinforce the views of a very tiny but vocal minority in the conservative movement. 

++Klein hasn't seen a ground game and thinks Trump's failure at the polls may only be the surface of his problem.

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