to quote scott adams wearing his hypnosis, persuasion expert, etc hat.

All Trump needs to do is NOT act like a crazy racist for the next few months and he will win bigly.
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Looks like Trump already blew it.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/07/trump-takes-a-victory-lap.php

“Donald Trump is giving an utterly bizarre if perectly characteristic statement….”

(PS I have enjoyed reading Scott’s commentary, because he comes from a totally different point-of-view than the political pundits.)

Depends on what her internal polling is telling her, I think. I suspect the worry is that she is going to lose the white vote and the male vote by a much larger margin than Obama did in 2012.”

Agreed. As the Dems have waded deeper and deeper into identity politics the Clintons, strange to say, have always done better with the white blue-collar voters that used to be the core of the Democrat party. That was certainly the case with Hillary against Obama in 2008; while it didn’t get her the nomination then she did get a majority of primary votes. Now Trump has these voters in his cross-hairs and she needs to defend the turf. She probably figures she has women and nonwhites locked up. But will there be a turnout issue for her? The other factor is that Kaine will definitely not overshadow her.

Hard to fathom what Kaine brings to the ticket.

Depends on what her internal polling is telling her, I think. I suspect the worry is that she is going to lose the white vote and the male vote by a much larger margin than Obama did in 2012. Taking Warren, for example, white as white is, doesn’t help that, in my opinion- only a boring white guy could really help with that, and I doubt it matters, like Neo. People making these VP recommendations usually don’t understand that- for example, Obama won handily with dim Joe Biden- twice!

I agree and Drudge is reporting that Kaine is her pick. He’s a straight white guy, not part of any victim or special interest group. Neither blacks, Latinos, asians, LGBT, socialist radicals, the young or environmentalists have any reason to get excited about this ticket. The only thing it’s got going is “The First Woman President”. But Hillary comes across as shrill, rather than as a Thatcher or Golda Meir.

All of this is just PoliSci 101, so to be this tone deaf leads me to wonder just how much input Billy boy had, which supports my long held suspicion that Bill Clinton didn’t ever really want to be the ‘First Gentleman’…

WikiLeaks just released 27,000 Democrat National Committee e-mails that: “….. outline staffers discussing how to discredit Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in favor of a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy.
They were sent between January of last year and May of this year.”
See: http://www.wave3.com/story/32511710/wikileaks-releases-democratic-national-committee-emails

That will not be well received by Bernie supporters. They probably won’t go for Trump. They might either stay home or go for the Green party.

Kaine’s reported value is his foreign policy credentials on the Armed Services Committee. If he is her VP pick, IMO it is a profound misstep on her part as it is an indication that she thinks that her greatest vulnerability is in the foreign policy arena. She’s certainly vulnerable on that front but her greatest problem is Bernie Sander’s supporter’s distrust and dislike of Clinton. Failing to pick a VP who appeals to them will lead to many staying home on election day. Plus, its terrorist attacks where she’s most vulnerable and Kaine doesn’t help her in that area.

That’s precisely his value.