pipbarber wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:09 pmThat is not the point. Trump represents...(insert whatever crazy arse conspiracy, religious theory, neoliberal economic theory, 'freedom' etc). Trump is your guy, if you subscribe to any of that shit. It truly makes no difference how he is. He could shit himself in public, run from jail, eat a baby on live TV and 70 million would still vote for him. And all he needs is a couple of hundred thousand votes in the purple states and he wins.
And none of that matters,it's entirely irrelevant to the results of the election. It was explained the other day in one of the blogs, if you are going to vote for a candidate regardless of what he says, does, doesn't say, doesn't do, then you aren't really taking part in the election, oh you are voting, but none of the candidates need do anything to appeal to you, they need spend no money trying to get your vote, they need spend no effort to talk to you, provide for your needs, or protect you from anything, even your own stupidity.
What Trump is essentially doing is spending huge amounts of time, money and effort holding rallies and making speeches that essentially will make no difference in the election, because these people are already going to vote for him no matter what, his entire pitch, and his only pitch, is to attack the democrats so that gets taken up by the right leaning media, which also for the most part is projecting to that same demographic, people whoa re already going to vote for Trump. The Democrats meanwhile are appealing to that part of the electorate that aren't died in the wool Trump supporters, in this election they are the only ones that count, and it's their leanings that need to be assessed, they are the ones who can be swayed one way or the other.
By all account it seems to be working, Democrats aren't just slightly fund raising Republicans, they are out raising and outspending Republicans in every area, and when you consider that all those Trump fanatics just sending in money to Trump and the Republican to the point where many of them are ending up destitute, well that's significant. It's even more significant because when was the last time you saw and an ad online from Democrats asking for money? I can't ever recall actually seeing a single one, yet the right leaning media is flooded with them for Trump and the Republicans.
So while Trump appeals to his base, which is essentially fixed in size and probably won't change, The Democrats appear to be doing the needed legwork to appeal to voters who do matter, not just their base but the ones who do actually matter in an election. Trump thinks all he needs is his base, but as mentioned many times, he's essentially an idiot and has driven away anyone who tries to talk sense to him, and he continues to drive away even some of the voters who would normally vote republican.
But lets face it, just about every US election comes down to a few states, the entire system is designed around that premise, that some states are blue and never vote red, some states are red and never vote blue, and some go one way or the other and they are the ones that politicians hit heavily, so in the end every election comes down to a few hundred thousand votes even if the winner actually wins by 7 million votes. It's a stupid system, why the popular vote doesn't elect the President is weird but it's their way, if it did they would have had a decade and a half of Democrats in the Presidential office and Trump would still be a billionaire pervert running around uncharged with any crimes.
