Obvious point: Trump’s obsessive, unfiltered tweets seem to offer a direct view into his mind. We may like what we see, we may not. But at this point, many voters probably feel like they know him, the way they might know their archetypal crazy old uncle.
Hillary’s tweets are written by committees. In speeches, her personality is masked. Nobody can feel like they really know what’s going on in her mind.
Trump is the devil we know. Hillary is the potential devil we don’t know. Voters often pick the former over the latter.
P.S.: 1) That’s another reason why it would be fatal for Trump to start waffling on his signature commitments: build The Wall, renegotiate trade deals, etc. It would not only alienate those who liked those commitments — it would also mean (even to voters who don’t care about The Wall) that we don’t really know him after all, that we’re in uncharted territory. 2) Hillary could be saved from the troubling fear that we don’t really know her deepest thoughts and impulses if voters conclude she has no deepest thoughts and impulses. There’s no devil there. Devils don’t live in vacuums. …
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Is Trump the Devil We Know? https://t.co/s7xAHoZvI0 Trump tweets give voters insight into his thinking – like or not. We don’t know Hillary.
I think this is why Trump stays close in state poll after state poll. Is Trump the Devil We Know? https://t.co/u8t4HdMiVF
One factor I think works in Trump’s favor as the campaign tweets on … https://t.co/xS3im1CLCH
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Trump is the devil we know. Hillary’s the potential devil we don’t know. Voters often pick former over the latter https://t.co/XoaaTxRlkt
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Do you think you know what the real Hillary’s like? What about Trump? Therein lies an advantage … https://t.co/xS3im1Un1h
Other way around. Trump is Russian Roulette – 50% / 50% Great or Not. Hillary is 100% Progressive Democrat – anti-American, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom, control everything, since we are too stupid. It is the decline and fall of the greatest nation in history.
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