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In reply to the discussion: Breaking News: Trump can actually win the White House [View all]The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)I mouthed off to my Dad that Trump would be the nominee as soon as he announced. Dad told me to put my money where my mouth was, so we bet the standard Duke boys bet of $1, and I told him he could have all the other clowns, whereupon he said he'd give me two to one for that, which I gleefully took. We both agreed that I was not hoping Trump would be nominated, but rather predicting it. Dad is pretty much resigned to losing his two bucks. Anything is better than Ted Cruz. Ewww.
The same logic that told me that Trump would win the nomination: namely that he is appealing to the party controlled by rank and file idiots, told me that those same people would be the only ones backing him in the general, and virtually everyone who ever occasionally vote Dem would choose Hillary as the lesser of two evils, if not first choice (me).
I think Trump is close to sewing up the nomination, and I think he will be clobbered in Nov.