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Originally Posted by ianmoone332000
We went through Brexit with all the polls saying we would remain and look at what happened. Im calling it now, Trump will win. I was watching his speech live there. He will win
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Lotta people underestimate just how pissed off people are, and how that affects turnout. I wasn't exactly 'pissed off', but voting for brexit is the first time I've voted since being a naive 20 year old, back in 1992, and that was only because I voted for my kids' future - my personal situation would hardly have changed whichever way brexit went.
It's a bit like customer feedback... most people don't bother to go and leave a good review if it's just run of the mill shit, but get pissed off and you go slate the company, and put in the effort to do so. The interesting part is whether the anti-trump side is as motivated... basically it's gonna be an election decided on hate (either for the status quo and being ridden roughshod as usual, or for trump being a 'sexist pig') lol. Personally I feel trump will do far less damage than people think, even though he has gone off the rails, and 4 short years of him is far more worth it in the long run than hillary getting in, and no real change happening for a very very long time. Being a dumbass is one thing, but the cold, manipulating, calculating disregard that hillary (and indeed most career politicians) have for the populace is something else entirely.
Again, whether the desire for real change is enough that it gets asses into the booths is another matter, and on the flip side, the fear of trump getting in for those on the other side of the fence. Watching it as a very hobbyist fan of things psychological (and in no way am I implying I have anything more than a fascination with psychology, I'm not trying to pass myself off as some kind of expert by any means), it's extremely interesting.