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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Putting That Trump Iowa Landslide In Perspective [View all]TwilightZone
(26,982 posts)He still won by a record margin. All of the rest of it is just spin.
I don't understand why it seems so important for us to obsess over the results of a race that means very little in the big picture and somehow convince ourselves that it's some kind of loss. The argument that a 30% win is a loss is just silly.
The funny thing is that we constantly complain that the media wants a horse race for November, while we try to desperately twist and turn and spin the GOP primary into one. One of those things is much more likely to be a horse race than the other. Guess which one.
My concern is that people are going to buy into the nonsense that this indicates that Trump has no GOP support and is going to lose big in November and we'll get complacent. We heard the same arguments in 2016 (65% of GOP voters are voting *against* Trump!) and we know how that turned out.