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Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (2669)	5/11/2016 1:08:50 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 47248

Trump: I'll invest in rallies, not ground game http://hotair.com/archives/2016/05/11/trump-ill-invest-in-rallies-not-a-robust-ground-game/ He doesn't really want to be President. He likes the rallies, they feed his narcissism. It's all the campaign is about. He doesn't mean the stuff he says. He has no political ideology other than a generic liberalism picked up from living in NYC. ..... The businessman said he’ll spend “limited” money on data operations to identify and track potential voters and to model various turnout scenarios that could give him the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency. He’s moving away from the model Obama used successfully in his 2008 and 2012 wins, and which Clinton is trying to replicate, including hiring many of the staff that worked for Obama. Not only does this look like a risky choice, it also looks like an unnecessary one. Why not do both? Trump could structure his campaign to work on the ground-up, peer-to-peer model while still holding his big rallies and getting free media coverage. In fact, given Trump’s propensity to say provocative and perhaps damaging things, it would take that kind of peer-to-peer relationship between the campaign and the voters to contain any detrimental effects. Those being approached for big-money donations might wonder the same thing. If that’s the kind of campaign Trump wants to run, then why does he need to fundraise at all? Why not just continue to rely mainly on self-funding and individual small donations? . ...........