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Jonah Goldberg: Trump can't win but Dems can lose
« on: February 17, 2019, 03:13:11 pm »
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Jonah Goldberg: Trump can't win but Dems can lose

    By JONAH GOLDBERG Feb 15, 2019

DONALD TRUMP Trump can’t win in 2020 but the Democrats can lose, and they seem determined to give it their best shot.

Straight-line predictions are the undoing of every pundit and prognosticator. But it seems safe to say that if present trends hold, President Trump has no path to winning a majority of the popular vote.

In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote by more than 2.8 million ballots. He carried the Electoral College by very narrow margins: about 10,000 votes in Michigan, 22,000 in Wisconsin and 45,000 in Pennsylvania. In January, according to Morning Consult, Trump’s approval ratings in these states were 40 percent, 40 percent and 43 percent, respectively. An NPR/PBS/Marist poll last month found that 57 percent of Americans say they will vote against Trump while a mere 30 percent said they will definitely vote for him. He is underwater in a slew of states any Republican needs to win, and he has never once broken 50 percent in approval ratings nationally.

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Re: Jonah Goldberg: Trump can't win but Dems can lose
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2019, 04:40:12 pm »
Yup, and that's why Hillary is President today... oh, wait... 
Let it burn.

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Re: Jonah Goldberg: Trump can't win but Dems can lose
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2019, 09:20:52 pm »
Jonah Goldberg is said to be a conservative writer.... but it makes me wonder....
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...Goldberg is the author of Liberal Fascism, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller shortly after its release in January 2008,[5] The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, released in 2012,[6] and Suicide of the West, which was published in April 2018 and also became a New York Times bestseller, reaching #5 on the list the following month.[7][8]

Goldberg is also a regular contributor on news networks such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC, appearing on various television programs including Good Morning America, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King Live, Your World with Neil Cavuto, the Glenn Beck Program, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Goldberg is an occasional guest on a number of Fox News shows such as The Five, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and Outnumbered. He is also a frequent panelist on Special Report with Bret Baier. From 2006 to 2010, Goldberg was a frequent participant on bloggingheads.tv. Goldberg also makes an appearance in Dinesh D'Souza's 2016 film Hillary's America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg

So, he does have a "conservative pedigree" but it's kind of depressing to read... at any rate, with all due respect to him, I don't think he is overly more knowledgeable than us here. Only Rush and maybe Sean are more knowledgeable than us... with a few other exceptions I'd suppose, Larry Elder... but it's like they say in the UK, "it's squeaky bum time"....

Yes, that's a real phrase, pretty harmless actually, nothing naughty, it's basically squirming in your seat.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/squeaky-bum-time.html