Quote: (05-29-2017 09:10 PM)Chevy Woonsocket Wrote:
Quote: (05-29-2017 08:35 PM)captain_shane Wrote:
Trump won because of his personality. Give Kasich, Cruz, Bush, Rubio, whoever his exact same views and they lose. Why?
I completely disagree. If you recall, as soon as Trump established himself in the lead after his illegal immigration comments, Ted Cruz started making similar comments and began positioning himself in alignment with Trump's views. After doing this El Rato's poll numbers shot up. Stopping illegal immigration was a winning issue with voters. If Trump had any other view, nobody would've tolerated his boorish schtick.
Yes, boorish. When Trump stuck to the issues (and maintained frame in doing so) his numbers went up. When he got involved in the celebrity trash-talk gossip shit, he tanked.
Quote: (05-29-2017 08:35 PM)captain_shane Wrote:
Trump could've won being a social justice warrior. It was never his words that won the election, it was him.
Once again, disagree. Trump had to separate himself from 16 other candidates that were all in agreement on the issues. If he ran on Jeb's platform nobody would've cared. He would just be a loudmouth Jeb. However, when he put that loudmouth in service of raising issues that voters cared about, people responded favorably.
People tolerated his personality because he was right on the issues, not the other way around.
Just being outrageous doesn't get you anywhere in Presidential elections. The failed campaigns of Alan Keyes and Lyndon LaRouche are perfect examples.
People cared the min Trump stepped out and announced he was running. "Build that Wall" was just a sort of "ping" that he could go back to and get people on reacting. Trump schooled everyone on game this past 2 years in a number of things. Jeb with his reacting came off weak as fuck. Why do you think people Still make fun of him because of his please clap thing? Because he was being emotional and trying to get reactions from his audience. This is the same behavior an old school pick up artist goes through when his opener doesn't work, or his joke doesn't work. Please clap.
Trump didn't give a fuck if anyone laughed, he made himself laugh. He was always the center of his own universe. People reacted off of him. Blonde bimbo reacted off of his rosie comment, Jeb reacted off of his "low energy" comments, Cruz reacted off of everything, rubio acted tough. They all bought into Trump's superior frame of reality.
Trump is the ultimate salesman. How do you sell someone? By telling them all the features and benefits of what you're selling (wall, taxes, etc) or letting the other person project on to you what they want you to be?
Let's take the beta male with oneitis. He see's a girl that's super fuckin hot 9/10, smoking bad bitch. She gives him a few twinkles of hope, a flicker of the eyelashes, a brush of the hair, laugh at his jokes, whatever. What does the beta do? He now paints a picture in his head that this woman is perfect, she's wholesome, kind, virgin, great mother material, etc.
Why does the beta male project his image upon the woman?
Why does america project their image upon the person running for office?
Answer those, and you can see why someone like The Rock would have a good chance of winning, and why The Donald did.