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originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: UKTruth
5) Publish the report through all major news agencies along with running totals and commentary for the year.
Everytihng you mentioned is just a variant of this so I'm not quoting them all. This doesn't work, Congress only has an 11% approval rating but most of congress has a 60%+ approval rating in their district. Everyone is happy with how the group of them act, but for the most part Americans like the person they put in there. Don't forget, that for every person who is called out and shamed as having gone against the Presidents wishes there's another person who treats that as a rallying cry for the Congressman having done what they were supposed to do.
You are also badly wrong on who Trumps voters are. They are not all low information voters, in fact he won across the board in NH. New voters, long term voters, men , women, all education levels, very conservative, moderate. He won everywhere.
Winning across broad demographics does not mean they're not low education, furthermore not all low information voters are dumb. The vast majority of people are low information voters. By definition there are not large segments of the general public that are experts on foreign policy, trade, immigration, economics, and everything else the President or any elected official has to deal with. Any given person is usually at best an expert on just one of those subjects (and many aren't even an expert on one). This means that most people quite simply are not qualified to even judge the merits of someones campaign plans.
This in turn causes elections to be about saying something that sounds good rather than about something that actually is good.
originally posted by: UKTruth
originally posted by: Eilasvaleleyn
Trump would get shredded by Sanders in the general. He's not attacking him because "The Donald" is smarter than he looks and acts (though maybe just barely.) He's seen what has happened to Clinton. He knows attacks don't work on Sanders and only empower him.
Trump is trying to appeal to Republicans and Democrats by positioning himself in the centre. He is never going to get hard right or left votes, but can eat up votes form moderates in both parties. I suspect that most of his rhetoric is now aimed at the general election.