You know, I’ve always loved being a Democrat, but these days the gluttonous glee I’m experiencing is almost sinful. If I’m doomed to hell, at least I’ll have enjoyed the sin.
Redstate.com has been in a high dudgeon about Trump for months now. They consider themselves “true” Republicans, and “real” conservatives, and they don’t like Trump invading their sandbox and kicking sand around. They’ve been trashing him for months now, lately there are far more anti Trump articles than anti Hillary ones.
Now they’re in a total panic. One of the bloggers got his hands on a poll that showed Trump and Clinton tied in Utah at 26% each, with latecomer Evan McMullen, a Mormon, coming in at 22%. First I heard of it. I had to root around for a while but I finally found it.
The blog was based on a Y2 Analytics poll, first published in the Deseret News, CNN reported on it a few hours ago. Personally, I have never heard of Y2 Analytics, so I know nothing about their track record or accuracy. Add in that the Deseret News is owned by the Mormon Church, which hates Trump, this may be their way of sticking the dagger in. To put it in perspective, the RCP polling average for Utah shows Trump +14.7, but that was last collated on 9/19 and only contained three polls, so numbers appear to be rather sparse, just like Nevada.
But the point is, who cares whether or not it’s accurate? Redstate is taking it as gospel, and they’re freaking out over it, predicting widespread death and destruction for the GOP. They’re now doing our job for us, you and I, and the Clinton media team. It’s supposed to be us who have the job of portraying Count Trumpula as such a despicable shit, and trailing so badly that it depresses Republicans into sitting this one out. But now we have Redstate doing it for us, and Redstate reaches and touches many more Republicans than we could ever hope to. And I have seen more than one post or comment over there with disgusted GOP faithful openly stating they’re not bothering this year. Not only is that great for Hillary, but also for every down ballot Democratic candidate, in every state.
I’d just like to close this little piece by paraphrasing the great and revered President Barack Obama, “Please Redstate, continue”.
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