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Let's give Johnson Utah's 6 electors

If you support Johnson you should be voting for him anyway but here are two reasons to vote for him that have little to do with him as a candidate. More cynical reasons or perhaps strategic reasons to support him.

1) Deny Donald
Trump has huge hurdles to win the election. The electoral map is simply not in his favor. If he loses Utah the path to 270 seems impossible.

2) Deny Hilary
If Clinton were to win Utah she would have the largest mandate to govern since Reagan. Let's not give her that.


Johnson's most recent poll numbers for Utah show him with 16% support, Trump 29%, Clinton 26%

https://reason.com/blog/2016/06/07/gary-johnson-polls-16-in-utah
Wow! I had no idea he was that close to Trump and Clinton.
 
States like Arizona and Utah (and possibly Texas, which would be much worse) being close cannot be a good thing for the GOP in general. If Trump has to use any of his resources to shore up support there he's doomed.

If you're Hillary you absolutely support some sort of campaign to boost up Johnson in Utah. Trump giving up 6 electoral votes that should be in the bag would be devastating to him.

That being said, I'd still bet the farm that Utah goes Trump when all is said and done.
 
If he had a Mexican judge who agreed with him he never would have brought this up.

He's also singled out Mexicans several other times on several other issues.

Also of course but the fact that he went to his heritage as a critique is very telling.
 
Just looked at an early Electoral Map for 2016 and it looks more interesting than most general elections.

Lean R: Utah, Texas, Missouri, Indiana, S. Carolina and Mississippi

Lean D: New Mexico, New Jersey, Connecticut and Wisconsin

Toss Up: Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, N. Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire

Lots of room for winning strategies on both sides if all those states really are in play.
 
Just looked at an early Electoral Map for 2016 and it looks more interesting than most general elections.

Lean R: Utah, Texas, Missouri, Indiana, S. Carolina and Mississippi

Lean D: New Mexico, New Jersey, Connecticut and Wisconsin

Toss Up: Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, N. Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire

Lots of room for winning strategies on both sides if all those states really are in play.

Even under the conditions you posted Trump is at a severe disadvantage.

Your scenario

Clinton starts with 174 delegates in hard Dem states to Trump's 84. When we include leaning states Clinton would still be leading 210 to 164 before the toss ups.

https://www.270towin.com/maps/MmALv
 
Feeling proud I voted for this guy in the Utah primary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60HSqulLy-M
 
Even under the conditions you posted Trump is at a severe disadvantage.

Your scenario

Clinton starts with 174 delegates in hard Dem states to Trump's 84. When we include leaning states Clinton would still be leading 210 to 164 before the toss ups.

https://www.270towin.com/maps/MmALv

It's not my scenario. It is RealClear Politics scenario. I agree that Trump is at a disadvantage. But for more "toss ups" than I remember there being. Interesting to me.
 
Just looked at an early Electoral Map for 2016 and it looks more interesting than most general elections.

Lean R: Utah, Texas, Missouri, Indiana, S. Carolina and Mississippi

Lean D: New Mexico, New Jersey, Connecticut and Wisconsin

Toss Up: Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, N. Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire

Lots of room for winning strategies on both sides if all those states really are in play.

That map should be a lot more disturbing to the GOP. Though Trump has more toss up states in play, the states that are just leaning R should be really disturbing to them (4 years ago the idea of all the Republican leaner states on that list other than Missouri being nothing but solid would have been incomprehensible to me, while just New Jersey and Connecticut are incomprehensible to me). Just Texas alone would be disastrous if Trump has to spend any time there.
 
States like Arizona and Utah (and possibly Texas, which would be much worse) being close cannot be a good thing for the GOP in general. If Trump has to use any of his resources to shore up support there he's doomed.

If you're Hillary you absolutely support some sort of campaign to boost up Johnson in Utah. Trump giving up 6 electoral votes that should be in the bag would be devastating to him.

That being said, I'd still bet the farm that Utah goes Trump when all is said and done.

I agree but one can flip that by pointing out PA, OR, WI and MI. But overall Clinton has the edge.
 
States like Arizona and Utah (and possibly Texas, which would be much worse) being close cannot be a good thing for the GOP in general. If Trump has to use any of his resources to shore up support there he's doomed.

If you're Hillary you absolutely support some sort of campaign to boost up Johnson in Utah. Trump giving up 6 electoral votes that should be in the bag would be devastating to him.

That being said, I'd still bet the farm that Utah goes Trump when all is said and done.

ah c'mon. If you're going to bet the farm on anything, you need to have a comproble item on the table from those who take your bet, oh, like, a casino.

Still I'm not taking this bet. Sure Utah's stuffy Mormons will hold their noses when voting for a casino mogul, but all they need to know is that the LDS Church invests heavily in Vegas, and has more on the line in casino holdings than Trump does.
 
I don't buy polls anymore. They are not done responsibly anymore, but are part of the mesmerizing media campaign for the big D. I listen to the truck drivers in Flying J.

I wouldn't trust the RINO RNC to really do much for Trump. The truth is, they want Hillary, and they are planning on going right on with the CFR/UN plan for the world, with America reduced to just another country with banana republic values/model social fascism. After Hillary, they are planning on fronting Jeb Bush once again. These guys haven't learned anything from the public sentiment.

This election is all about throwing the bums out, that's all the support for Bernie and Trump. But the public-"educated" folks today don't know the difference between populism, globalism, fascism, and oh, say the idea of a representative constitutional republic that is designed to protect the little folk from the mass hysterics. More to the point, Donald Trump doesn't understand this, either.

So the globalists have nothing to worry about. The plan is still on track.

Your votes don't count, folks. You've got management making all the news and all the decisions.
 
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