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Trump Building Obama-Like Coalition of Supporters

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We'll see but I note that what Obama built was almost always crap that did not work.

I would tend to resist following in his footsteps.
 
In boasting about his tenure in the White House, President Barack Obama often cites numbers like these: 15 million new jobs, a 4.9 percent unemployment rate and 74 months of consecutive job growth.

There's one number you will almost never hear: More than 1,030 seats.

That's the number of spots in state legislatures, governor's mansions and Congress lost by Democrats during Obama's presidency.

It's a statistic that reveals an unexpected twist of the Obama years: The leadership of the one-time community organizer and champion of ground-up politics was rough on the grassroots of his own party. When Obama exits the White House, he'll leave behind a Democratic Party that languished in his shadow for years and is searching for itself.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-accomplished-policy-goals-party-floundered-132019824--politics.html

Obama just figured his important actions on policies like immigration and health care would solidify support, but that hasn't really materialized," said Daniel Galvin, a political science professor at Northwestern University and the author of a book on presidential party building. "He's done basically the minimal amount of party building, and it's been insufficient to help the party."

Obama's calculations tend to be wrong, which is one of the big reasons he failed. Having a poor work ethic and his lack of will/ability to play nice with others top the list as well.
 
Good tactics is good tactics. Trump doesn't have a fawning slobbering media at his beck and call so he'd be foolish not to try something that works.

Yeah, he's really draining that swamp isn't he?
 
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