OK, who was the first DUer to predict that Trump would win the nomination?

[Nye Bevan]

Kudos to Puzzledtraveller for this prediction on September 11, 2015:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251584088#post21

but it's not that easy to Google so there could be earlier ones.

[femmocrat]

1. We were all so young and naive back then.....

sigh...... I predicted Jeb.

[AngryAmish]

22. I was a Walker man. Dumb!

[sharp_stick]

2. I predicted his demise so often

it's amazing. I actually thought there were enough Republicans with brains to beat that xenophobic piece of shit.

[Nye Bevan]

4. So did I, and we weren't the only ones.

In my Googling there were many more posts predicting that there was absolutely no way he could get the nomination. We all underestimated the bizarreness of the times we live in.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I predicted him a while ago

and warned of his danger well before September...

by the way, we used the F word to describe this man at RSD, so if he gets elected...

[Nye Bevan]

5. For official kudos we need a link to an unambiguous prediction (nt)

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. For the record that thread will offer even earlier ones

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027801466

So no, I am not going to take the credit of being the first one, just one of the early ones. Several of us saw this very early, and I will add, some of think he can go all the way. I have also posted that here at the DU in the past/

[Nye Bevan]

7. "Those who ignore Trump do so at their peril" was prescient,

but did not quite rise to a prediction like "I think Trump will be the nominee".

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Idid say it here, and I will not search for it

suffice it to day, we did, and he can go all the way.

[HuckleB]

19. It's her raison dêtre.

As long as she makes bunches of predictions, some of them are bound to come true, and she wants credit, because that's really important!!!!

[AgerolanAmerican]

27. I predict

more predictions!

[HuckleB]

28. I predict that your prediction is correct!!!

[eissa]

9. Certainly not me

I predicted he'd be out by South Carolina. I thought for sure Kasich would be the nominee. An otherwise stellar history of predicting political races is now forever tarnished

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. Once he announced and began running,

I had this horrible premonition that he would win, but I realized it was just the stomach flu I was fighting. Now? I just shake my head.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Ok are you still running a stomach flu?

I need to ask you about lottery numbers?

[BlindTiresias]

11. Honestly

This was not a surprise to the actually politically literate or otherwise individuals who can make broad assessments utilizing things like demographics, history, and ideology.

Who this was a surprise to were the pompous 'wonks' of the world who think limited data sets are eternal entities and that we are at the end of history.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. YUP... exactly

[DCBob]

12. Not me.. I still dont believe it.

[petronius]

13. I said it back in 2003, but the Mods deleted my post as CT

No really, that really happened! What do I win?

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. I bow to you

[Brother Buzz]

17. A Bingo bus trip to the nearest Indian casino...

with a complementry buffet! WooHoo!

[HuckleB]

18. Derp.

The silliness of "who predicted something first" at DU is really one of more pointless aspects of the web site. Let's all make crazy predictions and some of them will come true. Duh.

[herding cats]

20. Not me.

I thought last summer he was feeding his ego.

[HuckleB]

21. He was. Even the Trumpass underestimated the stupidity of the GOP electorate.

[herding cats]

29. He and I both did it appears.

I didn't see him as being sincere in his attempt, I've no issue admitting that fact. Now he's their nominee.

11 months, and some really ticked off bigots, racist and isolationist later, here we are.

[yardwork]

23. I predicted Trump on November 1, 2015.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027306673

[Nye Bevan]

24. Yes, yours was the first one I found, before I found Puzzledtraveler's from September.

In fact, yours and PuzzledTraveler's were the only unambiguous DU predictions I found from 2015.

Nice job.

[yardwork]

25. Thanks. I think he will be harder to beat in the GE than the pundits think, too.

I've given up being surprised by the stupidity of the voting public.

[JVS]

26. Sun Apr-10-11 03:55 PM

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40. Sounds like the right wingers wet dream..Be afraid.. be very afraid
two and a half years ago I thought we would never see a Republican in charge of anything again after the cluster fuck they made of this country during W's two occupations of the White House.Well, we see what happened, mostly due to the ineptitude of the democrats. I have learned that people are obviously stupid enough to fall for anything, including getting fucked in the ass since 1980 and voting to continue it, sans the lube. The movie Idiocracy comes top mind and, as I look at the people around me,it looks more realistic every day.I weep for the future.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x856775