When I pointed out to Scott that Krugman probably knows that Trump is unlikely to win, Sumner came back by piously declaring that he prefers to believe people mean what they say but that's just him.
Sure, unless they're joking or taking the Mickey out as they say in England. What's happening is the entire liberal base is now trolling the GOP.
Trump supporters of the world unite! Anyway, Krugman has a good new post that shows that all the GOP pundits claims that Trump's campaign was over after Thursday night were laughably wrong.
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"NBC has the first post-debate poll; it’s an online poll, but using a methodology that worked very well in the midterm elections. And it does not, it turns out, show the predicted Trump collapse and rise of the establishment candidates."
"As some of us have been saying, the GOP is no longer a normal political party."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?_r=0
My only complaint here is Krugman cut it off at Rubio-who despite all the talk that he won the debate is still in 5th though it is an improvement. However, what was cut off is Jeb who in the new poll is only at 6%-he was second at 13% prior to the debate.
The claim that the GOP pundits made that that was it for Trump was totally wrong. The claim by some that Jeb won the debate is laughably wrong.
So Scott were those GOP pundits 'lying' or just engaging in wishful thinking?
Speaking of Sumner, Tom wanted to ask him about his assumption that Trump has no chance and whether that's related to Ratex. My guess is Sumner is just going with the conventional wisdom that Trump can't win the GOP nomination-which I agree with.
Tom did link this Krugman article for Scott. We'll see if he answers it.
"What I’m wondering: How, exactly, does the Trump implosion everyone is predicting happen at this point? The punditocracy wrote him off over the McCain comments, and was totally wrong. If base voters haven’t decided that he’s a buffoon yet, what new information will convince them?"
A new talking point I've heard recently is that Trump has 20% or even 24% now but he'll never get any higher than that as that saturates the possible Trump support. We'll see. Again, I'm not thinking he'll win either-if nothing else the establishment will never let that happen, you see how Fox went after him on Thursday.
However, he can hang around for a long time and give them fits.
P.S. Some admitted post debate that Jeb didn't have an great night but that he didn't hurt himself at least. This first post debate poll seems to show this is false. At this point his campaign has really been forgettable.
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