The Science Behind TrumpMania

[washamericom]

Donald Trump's startling transformation from reality TV star to serious presidential contender in the eyes of some key Republican voters happened because he's been able to sell himself as the straight-talker most candidates aspire to be, a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines RegisterIowa Poll shows.

A look underneath the poll's headline numbers, which put Trump atop the GOP field in the state that holds the nation's first nominating caucuses on Feb. 1, suggests the New York real estate mogul is making the sale in large part because of qualities that aren't part of the average political résumé. Everything that conventional wisdom says would torpedo his candidacy is instead making it stronger.


The Science Behind Trump-Mania

About a third of those likely to attend the Republican caucuses, 35 percent, said they don't believe President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. Prior to announcing his presidential bid in June, Trump was perhaps best known in politics for voicing skepticism about Obama's birthplace. Those and other challenges to Obama's nationality prompted the president to release his birth certificate during his 2012 re-election bid, confirming he was indeed born in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Among Trump's supporters, the share who say they don't believe Obama was born in the U.S. grows to 46 percent. (Subgroups like these have a larger margin of error than the overall margin of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.)

“I think he is hiding a lot about it and there are too many questions,” Reekers said of the president's nationality. “It just isn't clear cut.”

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god bless Iowa, America's common sense bread basket heartland.

 

[midcan5]

I also think you need to add the lack of republican accomplishment these past eight or more years, add too the fact they made government the problem. When you make the very organization you live in and by the problem, and then you claim you are an gov agent of correction here to solve the problem, you lose credibility. Is it any wonder Trump, Carson, and Fiorina are doing well - they are outside the problem government.

 

[washamericom]

U R totally right. boehner and mcconnell are duds too. but a dormant government is still better than no government at all.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I also think you need to add the lack of republican accomplishment these past eight or more years, add too the fact they made government the problem. When you make the very organization you live in and by the problem, and then you claim you are an gov agent of correction here to solve the problem, you lose credibility. Is it any wonder Trump, Carson, and Fiorina are doing well - they are outside the problem government.

Obama been President, not Boooooosh.

Lol

Fucking moron