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I see all this, but you have to admit, if you took all those sanders rally's with 10's of thousands, like trump, and compare them to hillary's 100's of people etc, don't you think that would be a clue as to what is going on?
You can't trust the media, they are in an all out attack on trump, (again I'm not a trump supporter.) yet the polls that aren't skewed show them in a dead heat....
what say you of this?
I would say that those who support Trump and Sanders were very enthusiastic. That they wore that enthusiasm on their sleeves and went to rallies in the thousands. That those who attended Clinton rallies were more subdued as they already knew what they were getting and satisfied with it. Where Trump and Sanders could light fires within some, Clinton shored up her silent support among more. Clinton had the more laid back, calm, been there and done that crowd. In other words Clinton supporters were more of the silent majority type, Sanders and Trump, the vocal minority when it came to rallies even though more people attended the Sanders Trump Rallies. Those who supported Clinton didn't feel the need to get out and rah, rah at a rally. They did their talking in the ballot box which led to a 60-40 win in the popular vote when all the Democratic primary votes were counted. Silent and steady won out over vocal and large rallies.
Trump also generated that enthusiasm and attracted large vocal crowds whereas the other GOP candidates didn't But in the end, Trump also received 40% of the GOP primary vote, identical to Sanders, but Trump didn't have a Clinton to contend with. 60% of all Republicans voted against or for someone else other than Trump. But Trump benefited from a large field where those who opposed him couldn't decide or settle on any one candidate.
Large rallies during a primary doesn't mean one is getting the majority of the support of all the people in whichever parties primary. It means they are getting the support of the very vocal, what percentage that vocal is remains to be determined until the end of the primary process. In both Trump's and Sander's cases, it came out to 40%. Enough for one to win, not enough for the other.