Donald Trump, protesters go big in Texas

[Attorney in Texas]

Source: Politico

Meanwhile, both the number of protesters that have become common outside his campaign events and the intensity of their clashes with Trump supporters reached new heights.

Recognizing the roused spirit of the crowd inside the arena, Trump re-evaluated the label of “the new silent majority” he has bestowed on his supporters. “Maybe we should call it the noisy, the aggressive, the wanting-to-win majority,” he said. “That’s what it is.”
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On Monday evening, the most pointed message at the rally came from Trump’s introductory speakers, tea party activists Katrina Pierson and Scottie Nell Hughes, and was aimed at the Republican Party. “I hope Donald Trump tears up that loyalty pledge,” said Pierson, who railed against the Republican establishment's attempts to undermine tea party candidates, including the Republican National Committee's insistence that White House contenders sign a pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, whoever that might be.

Hughes said the Republican Party takes its conservative base for granted. “They think we’ll always be there. We need to end that this election cycle,” she said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-2016-dallas-megarally-213625

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The Question: How does this news relate to the yesterday's New York Times report that "43 Percent of Republicans Think Obama Is Muslim"?

The Answer: if you want to know where Trump's ceiling is, you have to conclude that it is not below 43%.

[Kelvin Mace]

1. You know, at some point

with the DT's penchant for inciting the extreme elements, there is going to be a violent confrontation with the potential for a full on riot.

[PSPS]

2. "43 Percent of Republicans Think Obama Is Muslim"

When you read something like "43 Percent of Republicans Think Obama Is Muslim," is doesn't indicate that it's a growing belief. It shows that the GOP base is becoming smaller. Eventually, I presume it would say 100%.

What is left of the GOP base is little more than the sum total of billionaires, racists and xenophobes. Thus, it is incapable of winning any race whose voters aren't hand-picked by gerrymandering (i.e., congressional races.) And this is why the GOP won't be winning the white house in the foreseeable future. But it won't stop the spectacle of The Traveling Donald Show because the media can't turn its attention away from it.

[Attorney in Texas]

3. I see these polls and cannot believe that so many Republicans are unsceptical of Trump, but then I

think of all the other nonsense that these same hate-radio audiences have been trained to believe and it comes as no surprise that they are drawn to Trump.

The white collar country club Republicans thought that they were "in" on the joke when the FauxNews/Limbaugh crowd were fixated on Obama's birth certificate, but they are now realizing that they are the outside as shown by Trump crushing the combined totals of all the establishment candidates (Trump's current polling at 27% easily tops Bush at 6% plus Rubio at 6% plus Kasich at 3% plus Walker at 2% plus Christie at 1% plus Jindal and Graham at 0% each).

[former9thward]

7. Senators and Governors are not gerrymandered.

Is your prediction they will not win any Senate or Governor races?

[roguevalley]

4. what counts is the rest of us and the huge group of republicans who are puking into

recepticles. They will defeat him.

[Eriteo]

5. Dallas is where Kennedy got killed

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Not surprising.

[ColesCountyDem]

6. Kennedy was killed in Dealey Plaza.

WTH is 'Railcar'?