Your startling chart o’ the day
by digby
Courtesy of Kevin Drum who writes:
It’s September! Hooray! The kids are back in school and Donald Trump’s reign over the silly season will soon be coming to an end. Finally, we can start to get serious about choosing our next presi—
Wait. WTF? Trumpmentum’s sagging fortunes have turned around? He’s now even further in the lead? Well crap.
Kevin speculates that everyone wants someone else to spend the money to attack Trump but I think that’s probably a minor consideration. There’s plenty of money rolling around out there. No, I think the CW is probably correct — they don’t want to insult Trump’s followers. As you can see, they represent a fairly large proportion of the GOP electorate and they are vocal and energetic. Whether it lasts is unknown, but with the field as large as it is, nobody can tell where these people are going to land if/when Trump flames out.
Either way, it’s a problem. He was supposed to crater some time ago and it’s not happening. Quite the opposite in fact.
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