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[quote=Anonymous]I'd always viewed Trump as a "horse of a different color" who just defies all categories and pulls mostly (but surely not 100%) of the low-info voters who don't really follow politics but thought he was funny on TV.  But he's obviously got more support than that.  I'm wondering if the other category of support he draws is basically the Tea Party crowd.  They'd vote for any bomb thrower over an establishment Republican.  Between those two groups (plus other pockets of support), Trump got enough support to win the fractured primary.  But now it all falls apart in the general election, because the radical right-wing Tea Party represents the viewpoint of only a relatively small but committed sliver of America, and the low-info voters only carry a candidate so far (especially if they fall away as their info grows).

If this is sort of correct, then Trump may seem like a bigger sea change for the GOP than he really is.  Maybe he's really just the latest manifestation of the Tea Party, who looked more powerful than he was because of his high Q rating.  If so, then after this election, the low-info voters will disband, and the GOP will still be stuck in the same deadlock between radical Tea Party and establishment Republicans that it's faced for several years.  [/quote]

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