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Are some of them Trump supporters? I guess we'll see of Tuesday.

Trump will take it by ten points. He's a better salesman by far than Cruz.


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Wow... good one, it works on about three levels:

The title of the original painting is "Escaping criticism".

And if this doesn't describe Tump's technique to a "T"...
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Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture.
...forced perspective, indeed!


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To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Donald Trump Goes To Church And Beclowns Himself

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... Trump dragged his third trophy wife off to church to try to convince Evangelicals that he was actually one of them.

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Trump attended services at the First Christian Orchard Campus, a nondenominational church in Council Bluffs.

He, his wife, Melania, and two staffers took communion when it was passed. But Trump, momentarily confused, mistook the silver plates circulated around the auditorium and dug several bills out of his pocket.

"I thought it was for offering," he said with a laugh to his staff.
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In Iowa, it's all about the ground game. They don't have a primary election, so you can't just mail in a ballot. You have to actually show up at your local caucus, and then you have to stay there until they are done. Trump went to a few big events where a lot of supporters showed up. But were they from all over the state? It does you no good to win a few caucuses with most of your supporters. You need a majority of supporters to show up at a majority of caucuses, and stay there until they finish.

Each caucus takes a preliminary vote, and anybody with too low a percentage is out. That solves the problem of too many candidates. Their supporters go find another group to join. If Trump's support is fixed at a maximum of 49%, he can still lose a caucus! The caucus will eliminate the minor candidates, so Trump's supporters may face just one other candidate.

I wonder if he can break that 50% support line? Are his supporters the old-style politically-active people who actually get the turn-out to caucuses, or are they a very enthusiastic 35% who have never been to a caucus and won't know what to do? You just go there yourself, and your vote gets cancelled out by the woman who drives a van full of people there. Or the church that drives up in a bus to vote for Cruz!

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Trump going to an evangelical church in Iowa and trying to play Christian is one of the funnier mental images I’ve had in a very long while. Go Donald!

It’s almost enough to make me want to vote for him.........Almost.....


Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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i am still supporting the buffoon

America can withstand a clown but may not be able to survive an anarchist with a directive from God to lead the forces of Christianity to Armageddon


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without equality there is no liberty
Save America - Lock Trump Up!!!!

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As far as the Trump or Cruz question goes i'd rather have Trump any day.


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I guess the evangelicals pulled it off: They probably packed the caucuses with church goers who all voted for Cruz. That's one of Trump's problems. He can't count on the Evangelicals that made up such a large part of the Republican coalition.

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