Friday, May 20, 2016

RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT

++Moderates are a stunning 31% of the Republican Party. They are heavily college-educated and accept science and are concerned about climate change. It is the one bloc in the party that accepts the current sexual revolution. They are, however, conservative on taxes,immigration and regulation. I thought they had gone the way of the Do-Dos.

++I missed it but Peggy Noonan wrote a column about the creation of a new centrist party coming out of the GOP and disaffected Democrats. Ed Kilgore ridiculed this in an article for New York. He says no new political parties come out of a center and that there is no centrist Democrats who are disaffected. 

++Greenberg, the Democratic pollster, said that "progressives" have to know how to manipulate the three civil wars going on within the GOP to maximize the gains during this year. One bloc to pick up is the "moderate " Republicans. Nearly 10% of GOP said they are voting for Hillary. Greenberg says that millennials know their values are at stake and will come out against Trump in big numbers because they know the score. Your mouth to God's ears. And he says all polling shows that African-Americans and Hispanics believe--rightfully--they are under attack.

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