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ghostoffuffle  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can some explain to me why would anyone vote for Trump?

This isn't entirely accurate. The stark majority of RNC delegates are bound- that is, they are required to vote at convention how their state voted in the primary. So they actually did commit to that decision.

So while it's vaguely accurate to say that nobody's really voted yet... kind of... very loosely... it's equally accurate to say that in some ways a lot of people have already voted without yet having even put pen to paper.

I don't think it helps anybody at this point to just say "don't believe the hype" and sweep the issue under the rug. I do think it's abundantly clear by now that plenty of people that "haven't ever voted for Trump" (nod wink) will have no problem voting for Trump should he make it to the generals. And given that he has a good number of bound delegates at this point, we all ignore that possibility at our peril... as the Republican party has already demonstrated.

Beyond that. The fact that somebody who has voiced the opinions Trump has voiced (whether he believes them or not) and accepted the support he has (explicitly or implicitly) can win such vocal support by any more than a piddling minority should be of great concern to all of us, whether or not he makes it past convention.

Think it's okay to get a little sucked in.