Voter suppression is the 2016 game

VOTER SUPPRESSION WARS HAVE JUST BEGUN

VOTERS TO BE SUBJECTED TO 3 MONTHS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE

If Mitt Romney had earned the same number of votes as John McCain in 2012 he would have won that election. The portraying of Romney as a liberal, who not only introduced government healthcare in Massachusetts, but also as a destroyer of American companies was very effective in keeping conservative voters at home. Twisting the fact that he had a binder of women applicants to indicate he was anti-women. That he told a story of putting his dog on the roof of his car in a crate because the dog was stinking up the car, anything to show he was unacceptable.  While this idea of diminishing a candidate in the eyes of his or hers own supporters is nothing new, it was once just called negative advertising, it has now become an unrelenting psychological warfare against the opponent's voters.

One thing unique to this election is that Donald Trump is up against a 3 pronged attack, the democrats, the media, and the establishment republicans. A republican candidate usually has to withstand the attacks of the democrats and media, but not usually from the elite of his own party. Trump has been under fire from day one. When he announced, and stated he would stop illegal immigration, the firestorm began, it was spun that he hated immigrants, and he was racist. Univision pulled out of Miss Universe contest, Macy' stopped selling his clothing line, and so it began. The distortions, out of context reporting has continued unrelenting. Trump was able to overcome all this in the primary and still win.

The general election has saw the democratic machine, fine tuned under the Obama supporters get the jump on Trump. It was like a light switch was turned on June 1, as the media stepped up their scrutiny of every word or phrase to put the pressure on Trump. It has been very effective so far. While Trump is trailing Clinton now, it will be interesting how things work out when the Trump campaign gets going. Trump, of course has been cooperating, by getting into the weeds, by thinking he has to address every item of criticism, Hillary Clinton has mostly been hiding out, by speaking only in controlled settings and in environments under control of her campaign.

While Trump has had a lot of scrutiny till now, he like Obama have no political record. Hillary Clinton however has a political record, with a lot of controversy, it will be fertile ground for a unrelenting attack in the future. 90 days is an eternity in the political warfare of a presidential campaign. We are just beginning to see the suggestions that she is not physically well, that she suffering from some undisclosed ailments. There usually is some truth to all attacks, that will be exaggerated to create doubt in the minds of their supporters, that their candidate really is not worthy of their vote.

Trump's candidacy is unique  in modern politics, he is not a career politician, this of course is an affront to all career politicians. He is an unknown quantity, will they be able to control and will he compromise with them? The establishment republicans will never support Trump, he is probably not controllable and does not have the support of the usual big donors. He has questioned trade policies and foreign policy, both of which create trillions of dollars of income for the donors and their representatives.  They now say, that they are just too principled and of too high a moral character to support Trump. If they are so principled they would have sought the impeachment of Obama and Holder when they failed to faithfully execute the laws of the country. This is so much bull shit, why don't they just be honest and admit it is all about political power and money, which if  Trump were elected would place all that in doubt.

So, it will be a campaign to see whose supporters will be the strongest, most steadfast, most able to withstand psychological flogging for the next 3 months. Those with financial interests at stake, those making fortunes on trade and foreign policy, the government workers unions, federal, state and local, will be steadfast for Clinton, all those who are dependent on government, which is near a majority, will be mostly for Clinton. Its probably around 43% entrenched voters on each side. That leaves possibly only 10 percent of electorate undecided. The actual battle will be who can best discourage their opposition's voters to the point that they stay home.