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Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

Given the huge landslide for republicans in the last Senate/House election, I'm not so sure. Now, the congressional elections were unfortunate in their timing, as the Healthcare Reform Laws were just being enacted and brought a whole bunch of problems with them, which translated to ire against Democrats. Luckily, the presidential election is far enough away from that to have left the public's memory somewhat. Still, even if Trump gets the nomination it will be a close election, with some people voting Republican just becauseas Aero mentioned, they blame the nation's problems on the current administration.

However, Trump will have a hard time earning the youth voters, minorities, women, and liberal-leaning independent voters.

And all of this is only relevant if he actually wins the primaries.

AND keep in mind NONE of us can say for sure what will happen until 2016.

You mean the election with the lowest turnout since WWII?

I'm less concerned.