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Craig Ewing's avatar

"Donald Trump’s ground game in Arizona and Nevada may be undermined by canvassers working for America Pac using GPS spoofing to pretend they have knocked on doors when they haven’t, according to multiple people familiar with the practice and a leaked how-to-fake-location video."

How very Russian of them!

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

haha. Thats true. Liar at the top. Liar at the bottom.

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TheDurableDon's avatar

"I still don’t understand why the billion-dollar Trump campaign didn’t recognize the importance of a ground game. It makes no sense whatsoever. The demographic of men without college degrees, which is key to their success, has lower turnout rates than women and college-educated voters."

Perhaps the simplest explanation is, in a word, Arrogance. If we allow that Trump and his movement are primally driven by a kind of toxic masculinity (e.g., a bullying culture), then the likely presumption is that the peons will do what their told to do. Ground game? Who needs a ground game when we're obviously right and righteous. It's obvious that people will vote for us. Especially OUR people - because, LOYALTY...

But the ugly fact is that they seem to be loyal to grievance. They've got an unending capacity to gripe and complain about EVERYBODY ELSE, but ... what? You want me to take a day off from work to vote? Yah, I'll try. I got a shift. Gotta pay the bills. And I lost // I mean, I don't TRUST // those absentee ballots.

I perceive an inherent political laziness borne of arrogance. And it infects that voting bloc from the top all the way down.

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BARRY GANDER's avatar

The defections will be the surprise factor...

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

It is rising across the board. Polls have severly overestimated Trump's support with Republican voters. He will not hit 95% as they have been telling us since the start of this year. Let the exit polls come, it will be time to put a spot light on their mess.

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BARRY GANDER's avatar

I am looking forward to your article on it!! LOL

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