Quote: (01-09-2018 07:30 AM)Guitarman Wrote:
Trump had good solid policies to make his country great again that he is now enacting. Obviously he needs another term to get shit done.
What are Oprah's policies??, does she even have any other than being black and a woman????
What were Obama's policies?
"Issues" are important, but
the average voter is swayed a lot more by more superficial personality aspects, mainly the personal connection candidates manage to establish through the media package they present. That's what makes Winfrey such a strong potential candidate.
Quote: (01-09-2018 02:16 AM)Rush87 Wrote:
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If her Golden Globes speech is anything to go by, she'll be just as, if not more divisive than Hillary.
Popularity wanes fast without a message which brings me back to: If shes just a popular face for Democrats, what do the Dems have to offer that they didn't in 16'?
Obama and Trump both won on being perceived as Washington outsiders, running against "same old" politicians. Oprah brings that quality (even though she's an estblishment tool like Obama). She's got those elements of Obama and Trump, but packaged for a larger demographic.
Oprah would only need 6,000 votes to flip Michigan, and 14,000 votes for Wisconsin, which Obama won by
over 400,000 votes in 2008. Look at that razor-thin strip running from Michigan to Pennsylvania, this was the result in 2016 with the most abrasive and obnoxious possible candidate the Dems could have lined up, the tiniest shift to the left in those 4 swing states, and the election flips:
We're looking at Trump from our biased perspective as his natural constituency of woke males, I'm just saying that we need to look at the big picture here, this is not about how much we prefer Trump over that cow, that's not much of a debate.
It's about Oprah as a potential candidate. Objectively speaking, she is probably the worst possible challenger for Trump in 2020. Running against Trump would neutralize all her downsides, the fact that she's an arrogant celebrity billionaire with no political experience.