Without worrying about the polling analytics, it did seem that the movement of voters from The Donald to THRUSTED and The Waterboy was not only the endorsements and GOTV of evangelicals.
What was he thinking?
Making fun of Iowans for the mixed benefit from a SNL audience underestimated the intelligence of Iowa Republicans. This could carry over into New Hampshire as FAIL if tRump continues to deploy an air campaign rather than underapplying the ground game.
There actually is something called a serious “Palin Effect” that Time magazine also references as a doubling down of idiocy and it is unfortunate that tRump could have tarnished his leading position. In 2008 “...Palin may have contributed to a loss of support among “swing voters.”
Trump recalibrating in his concession speech could signal a hope that he could deflect the success of subsequent GOP “establishment” candidates.
That Sunshine gossip boys Halperin and Heilemann chose to cover her by definition shows the stupidity of this stunt and should render the bizarre bipartisan ballot choice for “independent voters” in New Hampshire between tRump and Bernie less weird.