Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s lead widened in New Hampshire just days before the primary, according to the latest CNN/WMUR tracking poll.
Thirty-three percent of likely Republican primary voters said they support Trump, giving the billionaire a 17-point lead over his closest GOP rival. Trump gained 5 points from a similar tracking poll last week.
Trump now has more than double the support of Sen. Marco Rubio, who came in second with 16 percent support.
Sen. Ted Cruz has 14 percent for third place.
As a general rule, Donald surges when he does one thing – ally himself with the insurgency and fight for its ideals more ferociously than anyone. When he espouses more conservative ideals than everyone else, and attack the enemies of the conservative insurgents, his poll numbers soar.
He’s going to build a massive wall – and make Mexico pay for it. He will ban Muslim immigration. He is going to fight a trade war with China. He will bomb the shit out of ISIS. Hillary is going to prison. Jeb is an establishment loser who supports illegal immigrants over Americans. The Republican donor class is opposed to him. Last night he promised he is going to bring back waterboarding, and a “helluva lot worse.” My heart fluttered. Then he called out the establishment for stacking the audience with big Cuckservative donors. He even showed kindness and class in standing with Carson, after Carson missed his cue to come out on stage at the beginning.
When Donald stagnates is when he is diverted from that assault on our enemies, and he begins attacking other politicians who his conservative insurgent supporters feel any sense of kinship with. When he attacks any conservative candidate who any conservative insurgents feel fondness for, his meteoric rise slows down. Part of that is negative emotions arising from seeing him attacking candidates some feel are fellow insurgent warriors, and part of that probably comes from seeing him behave as other politicians act.
What I would propose to future conservative insurgent candidates, is that the conservative insurgency tends to be very in-group oriented, and as a result the potential voters within that pool tend to develop feelings of fondness for any candidate they feel supports their cause. To that end, even if these voters adopt one candidate as their own, they still like other insurgent candidates.
Where internecine fighting breaks out among insurgent candidates, it has a tendency to create subtle perceptions of negativity in insurgent-voter amygdalae which attach themselves to all involved candidates. Those subtle perceptions hurt viability and voter support for anyone near the conflict. Our enemies are liberals, non-Americans who want American wealth, enemies of our nation, and the Cucks in the Republican establishment who support, tacitly or otherwise, all of those. Anyone who is perceived to be allied against those forces is our friend.
Now practically, negative advertising works, but it only works if it is detached from the candidate who launches it, or if the target attacked is universally disliked or not known by the target audience. Create an ad with the candidate themselves attacking a slightly liked opponent directly, and it’s efficacy will be greatly reduced. When you have the candidate themselves directly attack other insurgent conservatives who the target voters may actually like a lot, the costs are as high as the gains.
The key in a primary is to identify who your potential voters see as an enemy, and attack that enemy as vigorously as possible, while avoiding engaging in any direct attacks on any candidates who your potential supporters may like, or have positive feelings for.
As an additional benefit, not only is this good for the individual candidacy, it is good for the cause.
In other news, the candidate who said illegal immigration was an act of love we all had to bend over for is on the verge of calling it quits.
Frustration inside Bush world has begun to spill into open view, with even the most outspoken family loyalists admitting it may soon be time to move on.
With the New Hampshire primary just days away and polls showing him still trailing Marco Rubio, there is an increasing sense that Jeb Bush is running out of time to demonstrate strength.
Many donors and influential supporters, bound by a deep and longstanding connection to the patrician clan, say they will remain with Bush no matter what. Yet others, deeply distressed by the rise of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and eager for the Republican Party to rally around a mainstream candidate with viability, say they have come to terms with Bush’s long odds and the possibility they will eventually get behind someone else.
Here is a candidate who purposely took the side of foreign law-breakers over Americans in a party of patriots, and who attacked the one guy who aggressively swore he’d support America over foreigners. I actually think Jeb’s campaign is more worthy of analysis than Donald’s, because it took much more overt effort to blow all the advantages Bush entered the race with, than it took for Donald to exploit his strengths. I doubt we will ever see any candidate enter a race so far ahead and then purposely torpedo his entire campaign so fully.
Jeb is awesome at Apocalypse. Just imagine if we had given him the reins of the country.
Nice try. But Cruz is universally disliked. By the left because he’s a Republican who claims to be a conservative. And by the right, like me, who see what a shill he is and that he’s OWNED like the others. So no downside to attacking something like that.
Tweets from Craig Mazin, Cruz’s college roommate turned screen writer:
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2016/02/07/ted-cruz-isnt-real-either/
Could be. But if I was roomed with a leftist shitbag in college, I’m wagering he wouldn’t have nice stuff to tweet about me either…
I wonder if he gets to keep the campaign money if he quits?
@Sam J., considering Trump’s campaign is self-funded, yes.
Remember who the “arch conservative” was in 2012? It was Rick Santorum. We tried to tell people he was a fake but his act fooled them. Well, it’s 2016 now and arch conservative Santorum has endorsed Marco Roboto.
Don’t buy Ted Cruz’s arch conservatism. It’s only theater. And you’ll hate yourself for it in the morning.
TRUMP 2016
I get where you are coming from. I assume the collapse is on no matter who is elected. To that end, Ted can fuck up anything he wants and sell out to whoever – it was all going down anyway, and nobody was going to save it. All I need is no fucking with guns, and I’m straight. If he also gets SC justices who don’t fuck with guns, as I expect he is boxed into doing, I’m double straight. At the end of the day, the only thing which will determine our long term survivability is the extent of our personal lethality, courtesy of our armament.
If Trump wants my full endorsement, he needs to make some sort of official statement, covering both his position on guns, and making guns an official redline for any SC Justice pick. Unfortunately I have a feeling he doesn’t give a fuck what I think, so while I love Donald, and think him a great human and American, I am just slightly favoring Ted as the candidate ever so slightly more likely to keep me alive in twenty years.
Now if Donald came out and proposed turning back NFA 86, then I might have to switch sides, as would probably every other gun owner in the country.
But we are definitely on the same side.
This just in from Microsoft’s preelection vote count: Bush wins by a landslide.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
[…] By Anonymous Conservative […]
AC, https://twitter.com/Ricky_Vaughn99 regularly links to you because you write some good stuff. Notice though that he also relentlessly attacks Cruz, with good reason. I also encourage you to read HW’s critique of Cruz at http://www.occidentaldissent.com/ .
Promising to protect the 2nd Amendment and to appoint rightward judges has been a mainstay of Conservatism Inc’s pacification of the right in this country. The same bones they’ve been throwing us for decades! Never mind that gun control laws continue to get stricter and that those rightward justices always flip leftward whenever we really need them. Homosexual marriage anyone?
The main issue, the only issue that really counts, is immigration. And we all know Cruz’s record of flip-flopping on it. Even Conservatism Inc’s idol, Reagan, signed the first big amnesty. Fact is, “conservatives” are an illusion providing us with belief in the system. Look up Robert Lewis Dabney on “conservatives”.
Now I’m sure you’re by now familiar with Cruz’s sources of funding. How else would an “outsider” first term senator become a presidential candidate if not by being deemed useful to the string pullers? Yeah, make the usual conservative sounding noises and promise more wars for Israel. Yuck!
Trump is beholden to no one. As the race tightens, watch the money and the cucks jump entirely on the Cruz wagon – anyone would have done, just to stop Trump. What does that say? Have they played along with Cruz’s fake “outsider” persona? Of course. Won’t those scales be lifted from conservative eyes when they all gravitate to him in order to destroy the only candidate they don’t control? I guess not, as always. But I make the pitch nevertheless. Because we deserve better.
I’m 60 and haven’t voted for a major party candidate (for president any way) since 1984, and I was already becoming disillusioned then. In fact, my enthusiasm for Reagan was immediately cut in half in 1980 as soon as he announced his VP pick. I’ll be there for Trump though.
Use that skepticism God gave us. Notice the little things, like how easy it would be for Cruz to short circuit the same way Rubot did. Because he reads from a script too! The same exact script Reagan (the professional actor!) and Dubya read from. Thing is, we had no other place to turn in those days. Now, along comes a man with no script who is only owned by – himself! Can’t you see why he is so popular with white Americans? They’re sick to death of the fake “conservatives”.
Don’t keep falling for the same old act!
I do see why he is so popular – I like him myself, and will gladly vote for him. Your description of coming back to the system is a big plus for Trump.
I find this interesting, because you are effectively flagging my amygdala on to other issues where Trump is better and flagging aspects of Cruz that are suboptimal, and I do not like the feeling.
Well played – I am conflicted.