{"id":29990,"date":"2015-10-27T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29990"},"modified":"2015-10-27T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:38:52","slug":"good-timing-media-now-says-donald-trump-can-win-just-as-his-polling-is-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29990","title":{"rendered":"Good Timing: Media Now Says Donald Trump Can Win, Just As His Polling Is Collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Donald Trump began jaw-flapping about becoming president a few months ago, the media quite properly regarded his delusions as a joke, and a bad one at that. Most were reluctant to take him seriously due to his utter ignorance of governing and the issues that impact the nation. Add to that his clumsy, racist, boorish rhetoric and childish insults, and why would anyone with a functioning brain stem consider him viable?<\/p>\n

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News Corpse was among those ridiculing Trump and his lunatic, unachievable aspirations. I explained then that the only reason Trump was leading in the polls was that the field of candidates was so large that it diluted all of the opposing support between more than a dozen non-Trump candidates. I wrote that<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“…there is a demographic in the Republican electorate that can best be described as batshit insane. And Trump has managed to secure a near monopoly on that addle-brained GOP faction. […] Trump\u2019s confederacy of dunces is sufficient in numbers to rise above his rivals, so long as there\u2019s a lot of them. That\u2019s because when you divide the remaining Republicans who are not wacko-birds (h\/t John McCain) among the fifteen other candidates, there aren\u2019t enough of them left to surpass the Trump\/crazy constituency. That does not mean that Trump has a commanding lead. It means that there are way too many players on the field diluting the results for each of them. As they whittle down to a more manageable number, the 82% of non-Trump supporters will disperse to other candidates who will then tower over his paltry flock.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nothing has substantively changed since then. Now, however, the political pundits that were dismissing Trump as the clown that he is, are beginning to warm up to the notion that he is electable. They generally propose that, despite their prior skepticism, the duration of his poll-leading candidacy requires them to reconsider and concede that he is a plausible contestant in the reality show of GOP politics. For example:<\/p>\n