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Oct 26, 2016 19:43:35   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric Wednesday and explained why he thinks Donald Trump’s presidential bid is “the worst campaign that I have ever seen in my professional life.”

Perhaps best known as the wordsmith behind many Republican talking points, Luntz had quite a few zingers about Trump, including one about the GOP nominee’s sometimes stilted delivery of prepared speeches.

“Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than Donald Trump,” he jested.

He also suggested that Trump’s campaign should do whatever it takes to keep its candidate away from his hyper-aggressive Twitter account. “Break his fingers, take the iPhone away,” he joked.

But Luntz also offered some serious analysis on why Trump’s campaign was such an unexpected success in the primaries and where, he thinks, the candidate has since gone wrong.

When Luntz’s focus-group participants are asked what they think is wrong with the country, he said they always have an answer, and it’s usually a “very deep, very emotional, very personal” one. “Often, we’ll have women and men almost in tears” when talking about issues like the depletion of manufacturing jobs and unemployment in general, their feelings of a lost sense of security or their concerns about police.”

“Trump spoke to those people,” he said. “This candidate tapped into something unique [but] has absolutely lost his focus.”

The problem with Trump’s campaign, Luntz argued, “is that it’s become too much about him and not about the people he represents.”

Indeed, Luntz has been on the receiving end of Trump’s scorn when criticizing the real estate mogul’s campaign.

In his Wednesday interview with Yahoo News, Luntz said the turning point in Trump’s campaign came in the aftermath of both party’s national conventions this July. Luntz pointed to Trump’s attacks on the Khans, the Gold Star parents of a slain Muslim American soldier who spoke out against Trump’s anti-Muslim policy proposals at the Democratic convention. He also cited Trump’s suggestion that “Second Amendment people” could prevent Clinton from taking their gun rights away.

Since then, Luntz said, Trump has proceeded to alienate the people who helped him get the nomination by spending time attacking the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, decades-old allegations against former President Bill Clinton and the opening of his new hotel in Washington, D.C.

“Every day there’s another batch of emails, and every day we learn more about what she has done,” Luntz said. “No one knows about it because he speaks so loudly that all the cameras are on him, removing the oxygen in the room that should also be about her,” he added.

“It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear,” he said. “It’s not how loudly you speak — and he speaks way too loudly — but what people learn from what you say. And people don’t learn anything from Donald Trump.”

To test this theory, Luntz said he recently presented news reports on Clinton’s emails to a focus group, “and it changed an entire room of undecided voters.” But once he showed the group Trump’s own attacks against Clinton over her emails, Luntz said, “They all went back to being undecided.”

He added, “Not only did he not win them over, he actually turned them off because his language is wrong, his presentation is wrong.”

Despite regularly promising to surround himself with the best possible advisers to make up for his own lack of policy knowledge, Luntz said he thinks the people closest to Trump are ultimately to blame for his campaign’s downward spiral.

“There are states where there is not a single Trump headquarters,” Luntz said. “He spent more money on hats than he did on survey research, than he did on understanding voters.”

Luntz also said he was grateful not to have been involved with the candidate’s White House bid.

“This is a campaign that is an absolute joke,” he said.

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Oct 26, 2016 19:59:12   #
reconreb Loc: America / Inglis Fla.
 
slatten49 wrote:
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric Wednesday and explained why he thinks Donald Trump’s presidential bid is “the worst campaign that I have ever seen in my professional life.”

Perhaps best known as the wordsmith behind many Republican talking points, Luntz had quite a few zingers about Trump, including one about the GOP nominee’s sometimes stilted delivery of prepared speeches.

“Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than Donald Trump,” he jested.

He also suggested that Trump’s campaign should do whatever it takes to keep its candidate away from his hyper-aggressive Twitter account. “Break his fingers, take the iPhone away,” he joked.

But Luntz also offered some serious analysis on why Trump’s campaign was such an unexpected success in the primaries and where, he thinks, the candidate has since gone wrong.

When Luntz’s focus-group participants are asked what they think is wrong with the country, he said they always have an answer, and it’s usually a “very deep, very emotional, very personal” one. “Often, we’ll have women and men almost in tears” when talking about issues like the depletion of manufacturing jobs and unemployment in general, their feelings of a lost sense of security or their concerns about police.”

“Trump spoke to those people,” he said. “This candidate tapped into something unique [but] has absolutely lost his focus.”

The problem with Trump’s campaign, Luntz argued, “is that it’s become too much about him and not about the people he represents.”

Indeed, Luntz has been on the receiving end of Trump’s scorn when criticizing the real estate mogul’s campaign.

In his Wednesday interview with Yahoo News, Luntz said the turning point in Trump’s campaign came in the aftermath of both party’s national conventions this July. Luntz pointed to Trump’s attacks on the Khans, the Gold Star parents of a slain Muslim American soldier who spoke out against Trump’s anti-Muslim policy proposals at the Democratic convention. He also cited Trump’s suggestion that “Second Amendment people” could prevent Clinton from taking their gun rights away.

Since then, Luntz said, Trump has proceeded to alienate the people who helped him get the nomination by spending time attacking the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, decades-old allegations against former President Bill Clinton and the opening of his new hotel in Washington, D.C.

“Every day there’s another batch of emails, and every day we learn more about what she has done,” Luntz said. “No one knows about it because he speaks so loudly that all the cameras are on him, removing the oxygen in the room that should also be about her,” he added.

“It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear,” he said. “It’s not how loudly you speak — and he speaks way too loudly — but what people learn from what you say. And people don’t learn anything from Donald Trump.”

To test this theory, Luntz said he recently presented news reports on Clinton’s emails to a focus group, “and it changed an entire room of undecided voters.” But once he showed the group Trump’s own attacks against Clinton over her emails, Luntz said, “They all went back to being undecided.”

He added, “Not only did he not win them over, he actually turned them off because his language is wrong, his presentation is wrong.”

Despite regularly promising to surround himself with the best possible advisers to make up for his own lack of policy knowledge, Luntz said he thinks the people closest to Trump are ultimately to blame for his campaign’s downward spiral.

“There are states where there is not a single Trump headquarters,” Luntz said. “He spent more money on hats than he did on survey research, than he did on understanding voters.”

Luntz also said he was grateful not to have been involved with the candidate’s White House bid.

“This is a campaign that is an absolute joke,” he said.
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016 br br Conserv... (show quote)


Mr. Luntz has a opinion and a platform , but he and the other talking heads live in an alternative world of Washington far removed from the public , other than the few he has on his programs . That joke he speaks of beat the hell out of 16 insiders and did it at a fraction of the money the others spent .. Perhaps us jokers will change his perspective in Nov. .. go Trump !

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Oct 26, 2016 20:03:51   #
Hemiman Loc: Communist California
 
slatten49 wrote:
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric Wednesday and explained why he thinks Donald Trump’s presidential bid is “the worst campaign that I have ever seen in my professional life.”

Perhaps best known as the wordsmith behind many Republican talking points, Luntz had quite a few zingers about Trump, including one about the GOP nominee’s sometimes stilted delivery of prepared speeches.

“Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than Donald Trump,” he jested.

He also suggested that Trump’s campaign should do whatever it takes to keep its candidate away from his hyper-aggressive Twitter account. “Break his fingers, take the iPhone away,” he joked.

But Luntz also offered some serious analysis on why Trump’s campaign was such an unexpected success in the primaries and where, he thinks, the candidate has since gone wrong.

When Luntz’s focus-group participants are asked what they think is wrong with the country, he said they always have an answer, and it’s usually a “very deep, very emotional, very personal” one. “Often, we’ll have women and men almost in tears” when talking about issues like the depletion of manufacturing jobs and unemployment in general, their feelings of a lost sense of security or their concerns about police.”

“Trump spoke to those people,” he said. “This candidate tapped into something unique [but] has absolutely lost his focus.”

The problem with Trump’s campaign, Luntz argued, “is that it’s become too much about him and not about the people he represents.”

Indeed, Luntz has been on the receiving end of Trump’s scorn when criticizing the real estate mogul’s campaign.

In his Wednesday interview with Yahoo News, Luntz said the turning point in Trump’s campaign came in the aftermath of both party’s national conventions this July. Luntz pointed to Trump’s attacks on the Khans, the Gold Star parents of a slain Muslim American soldier who spoke out against Trump’s anti-Muslim policy proposals at the Democratic convention. He also cited Trump’s suggestion that “Second Amendment people” could prevent Clinton from taking their gun rights away.

Since then, Luntz said, Trump has proceeded to alienate the people who helped him get the nomination by spending time attacking the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, decades-old allegations against former President Bill Clinton and the opening of his new hotel in Washington, D.C.

“Every day there’s another batch of emails, and every day we learn more about what she has done,” Luntz said. “No one knows about it because he speaks so loudly that all the cameras are on him, removing the oxygen in the room that should also be about her,” he added.

“It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear,” he said. “It’s not how loudly you speak — and he speaks way too loudly — but what people learn from what you say. And people don’t learn anything from Donald Trump.”

To test this theory, Luntz said he recently presented news reports on Clinton’s emails to a focus group, “and it changed an entire room of undecided voters.” But once he showed the group Trump’s own attacks against Clinton over her emails, Luntz said, “They all went back to being undecided.”

He added, “Not only did he not win them over, he actually turned them off because his language is wrong, his presentation is wrong.”

Despite regularly promising to surround himself with the best possible advisers to make up for his own lack of policy knowledge, Luntz said he thinks the people closest to Trump are ultimately to blame for his campaign’s downward spiral.

“There are states where there is not a single Trump headquarters,” Luntz said. “He spent more money on hats than he did on survey research, than he did on understanding voters.”

Luntz also said he was grateful not to have been involved with the candidate’s White House bid.

“This is a campaign that is an absolute joke,” he said.
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016 br br Conserv... (show quote)


Yeah and we will see if Clinton thinks it's funny, if she can be stopped from corrupting the election process she will lose.

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Oct 26, 2016 20:23:05   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Well, Reconreb/Hemiman, I took the gist of Luntiz's remarks to say: Given a more traditional/reasonable approach to running his campaign...Mr. Trump would likely be leading in the polls by a considerable margin against a much-maligned, questionable candidate. As it is, he may still win. But, if he loses...he has only himself to blame. Either way, it has been a remarkable run by, at best, a marginal candidate.

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Oct 26, 2016 21:06:33   #
rufa charnetski
 
slatten49 wrote:
Well, Reconreb/Hemiman, I took the gist of Luntiz's remarks to say: Given a more traditional/reasonable approach to running his campaign...Mr. Trump would likely be leading in the polls by a considerable margin against a much-maligned, questionable candidate. As it is, he may still win. But, if he loses...he has only himself to blame. Either way, it has been a remarkable run by, at best, a marginal candidate.


You are so RIGHT and while we have all this criticism from Luntz and others, Trump seems to lead in spite of his opponent's one year experience 30 times (all spent lining her pockets)! Perhaps if he and Media in general would just report the news rather than Psycho Analyzing Trump (all being done due to them feeling that Trump just doesn't fit the Presidential Mold), we would all see good results from this unprecedented election!!

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Oct 26, 2016 21:35:30   #
Hemiman Loc: Communist California
 
slatten49 wrote:
Well, Reconreb/Hemiman, I took the gist of Luntiz's remarks to say: Given a more traditional/reasonable approach to running his campaign...Mr. Trump would likely be leading in the polls by a considerable margin against a much-maligned, questionable candidate. As it is, he may still win. But, if he loses...he has only himself to blame. Either way, it has been a remarkable run by, at best, a marginal candidate.


At this point I would prefer the devil himself over Clinton,I think he would do less harm to our already damaged country.

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Oct 26, 2016 21:44:59   #
mongo Loc: TEXAS
 
slatten49 wrote:
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric Wednesday and explained why he thinks Donald Trump’s presidential bid is “the worst campaign that I have ever seen in my professional life.”

Perhaps best known as the wordsmith behind many Republican talking points, Luntz had quite a few zingers about Trump, including one about the GOP nominee’s sometimes stilted delivery of prepared speeches.

“Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than Donald Trump,” he jested.

He also suggested that Trump’s campaign should do whatever it takes to keep its candidate away from his hyper-aggressive Twitter account. “Break his fingers, take the iPhone away,” he joked.

But Luntz also offered some serious analysis on why Trump’s campaign was such an unexpected success in the primaries and where, he thinks, the candidate has since gone wrong.

When Luntz’s focus-group participants are asked what they think is wrong with the country, he said they always have an answer, and it’s usually a “very deep, very emotional, very personal” one. “Often, we’ll have women and men almost in tears” when talking about issues like the depletion of manufacturing jobs and unemployment in general, their feelings of a lost sense of security or their concerns about police.”

“Trump spoke to those people,” he said. “This candidate tapped into something unique [but] has absolutely lost his focus.”

The problem with Trump’s campaign, Luntz argued, “is that it’s become too much about him and not about the people he represents.”

Indeed, Luntz has been on the receiving end of Trump’s scorn when criticizing the real estate mogul’s campaign.

In his Wednesday interview with Yahoo News, Luntz said the turning point in Trump’s campaign came in the aftermath of both party’s national conventions this July. Luntz pointed to Trump’s attacks on the Khans, the Gold Star parents of a slain Muslim American soldier who spoke out against Trump’s anti-Muslim policy proposals at the Democratic convention. He also cited Trump’s suggestion that “Second Amendment people” could prevent Clinton from taking their gun rights away.

Since then, Luntz said, Trump has proceeded to alienate the people who helped him get the nomination by spending time attacking the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, decades-old allegations against former President Bill Clinton and the opening of his new hotel in Washington, D.C.

“Every day there’s another batch of emails, and every day we learn more about what she has done,” Luntz said. “No one knows about it because he speaks so loudly that all the cameras are on him, removing the oxygen in the room that should also be about her,” he added.

“It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear,” he said. “It’s not how loudly you speak — and he speaks way too loudly — but what people learn from what you say. And people don’t learn anything from Donald Trump.”

To test this theory, Luntz said he recently presented news reports on Clinton’s emails to a focus group, “and it changed an entire room of undecided voters.” But once he showed the group Trump’s own attacks against Clinton over her emails, Luntz said, “They all went back to being undecided.”

He added, “Not only did he not win them over, he actually turned them off because his language is wrong, his presentation is wrong.”

Despite regularly promising to surround himself with the best possible advisers to make up for his own lack of policy knowledge, Luntz said he thinks the people closest to Trump are ultimately to blame for his campaign’s downward spiral.

“There are states where there is not a single Trump headquarters,” Luntz said. “He spent more money on hats than he did on survey research, than he did on understanding voters.”

Luntz also said he was grateful not to have been involved with the candidate’s White House bid.

“This is a campaign that is an absolute joke,” he said.
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016 br br Conserv... (show quote)


Well, the jokes on Luntz. He who laughs best, laughs last!

SEMPER FI

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Oct 26, 2016 22:02:34   #
missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore
 
You know Slatten that most of Trumps voters are not voting for him . I do not relish listening to his blustering buffoonery
for four years but for me and most of his voters it beats the heck out of putting the Clinton Gang in charge .




slatten49 wrote:
Well, Reconreb/Hemiman, I took the gist of Luntiz's remarks to say: Given a more traditional/reasonable approach to running his campaign...Mr. Trump would likely be leading in the polls by a considerable margin against a much-maligned, questionable candidate. As it is, he may still win. But, if he loses...he has only himself to blame. Either way, it has been a remarkable run by, at best, a marginal candidate.

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Oct 27, 2016 06:35:51   #
Kevyn
 
Hemiman wrote:
At this point I would prefer the devil himself over Clinton,I think he would do less harm to our already damaged country.
So write in the devil, it would be better than assclown Trump.

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Oct 27, 2016 06:44:35   #
Hemiman Loc: Communist California
 
Kevyn wrote:
So write in the devil, it would be better than assclown Trump.



What's his address,I know you keep it close at all times.

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Oct 27, 2016 07:34:09   #
robmull Loc: florida
 
Hemiman wrote:
At this point I would prefer the devil himself over Clinton,I think he would do less harm to our already damaged country.











I'm not sure there is a "smidgeon" of difference, Hemi!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUMP!!!

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Oct 27, 2016 08:15:40   #
Holdenbeach4u Loc: Holden Beach , NC
 
Why would any idiots and dumb asses voting for most corrupted women ever run H Clinton . Go Trump Go - Go Trump Go let's surprised everyone in the polls and put Trump in the WH !

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Oct 27, 2016 09:12:06   #
lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas
 
slatten49 wrote:
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric Wednesday and explained why he thinks Donald Trump’s presidential bid is “the worst campaign that I have ever seen in my professional life.”

Perhaps best known as the wordsmith behind many Republican talking points, Luntz had quite a few zingers about Trump, including one about the GOP nominee’s sometimes stilted delivery of prepared speeches.

“Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than Donald Trump,” he jested.

He also suggested that Trump’s campaign should do whatever it takes to keep its candidate away from his hyper-aggressive Twitter account. “Break his fingers, take the iPhone away,” he joked.

But Luntz also offered some serious analysis on why Trump’s campaign was such an unexpected success in the primaries and where, he thinks, the candidate has since gone wrong.

When Luntz’s focus-group participants are asked what they think is wrong with the country, he said they always have an answer, and it’s usually a “very deep, very emotional, very personal” one. “Often, we’ll have women and men almost in tears” when talking about issues like the depletion of manufacturing jobs and unemployment in general, their feelings of a lost sense of security or their concerns about police.”

“Trump spoke to those people,” he said. “This candidate tapped into something unique [but] has absolutely lost his focus.”

The problem with Trump’s campaign, Luntz argued, “is that it’s become too much about him and not about the people he represents.”

Indeed, Luntz has been on the receiving end of Trump’s scorn when criticizing the real estate mogul’s campaign.

In his Wednesday interview with Yahoo News, Luntz said the turning point in Trump’s campaign came in the aftermath of both party’s national conventions this July. Luntz pointed to Trump’s attacks on the Khans, the Gold Star parents of a slain Muslim American soldier who spoke out against Trump’s anti-Muslim policy proposals at the Democratic convention. He also cited Trump’s suggestion that “Second Amendment people” could prevent Clinton from taking their gun rights away.

Since then, Luntz said, Trump has proceeded to alienate the people who helped him get the nomination by spending time attacking the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, decades-old allegations against former President Bill Clinton and the opening of his new hotel in Washington, D.C.

“Every day there’s another batch of emails, and every day we learn more about what she has done,” Luntz said. “No one knows about it because he speaks so loudly that all the cameras are on him, removing the oxygen in the room that should also be about her,” he added.

“It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear,” he said. “It’s not how loudly you speak — and he speaks way too loudly — but what people learn from what you say. And people don’t learn anything from Donald Trump.”

To test this theory, Luntz said he recently presented news reports on Clinton’s emails to a focus group, “and it changed an entire room of undecided voters.” But once he showed the group Trump’s own attacks against Clinton over her emails, Luntz said, “They all went back to being undecided.”

He added, “Not only did he not win them over, he actually turned them off because his language is wrong, his presentation is wrong.”

Despite regularly promising to surround himself with the best possible advisers to make up for his own lack of policy knowledge, Luntz said he thinks the people closest to Trump are ultimately to blame for his campaign’s downward spiral.

“There are states where there is not a single Trump headquarters,” Luntz said. “He spent more money on hats than he did on survey research, than he did on understanding voters.”

Luntz also said he was grateful not to have been involved with the candidate’s White House bid.

“This is a campaign that is an absolute joke,” he said.
Caitlin Dickson, October 26, 2016 br br Conserv... (show quote)


I look at Trumps success this way; a person is down to their last $10 and it is several days until payday and they must feed a family of 4 - so they buy a $10 lottery ticket on the off chance they'll hit it big and all their problems will be solved.

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Oct 27, 2016 09:54:28   #
currahee
 
Is Luntz an "internationalist"? Is he part of the "in crowd"? Is he an "authority" on what is funny? Does he believe in the Torah or does he equate it with the Talmud? One may find, upon investigation, that he and Katie Couric have a lot in common.

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Oct 27, 2016 10:06:46   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
currahee wrote:
Is Luntz an "internationalist"? Is he part of the "in crowd"? Is he an "authority" on what is funny? Does he believe in the Torah or does he equate it with the Talmud? One may find, upon investigation, that he and Katie Couric have a lot in common.

For your edification, Currahee:

Frank I. Luntz (born February 23, 1962) is an American political consultant, pollster, and "public opinion guru" best known for developing talking points and other messaging for various Republican causes. His work has included assistance with messaging for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, promotion of the terms death tax instead of estate tax and climate change instead of global warming, and public relations support for pro-Israel policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Luntz's most recent work has been with the Fox News Channel as a frequent commentator and analyst, as well as running focus groups during and after presidential debates on CBSN. Luntz describes his specialty as “testing language and finding words that will help his clients sell their product or turn public opinion on an issue or a candidate.” He is also an author of business books dealing with communication strategies and public opinion. Luntz's current company, Luntz Global, LLC, specializes in message creation and image management for commercial and political clients.

He is perhaps best known for his focus group appearances on Sean Hannity's FOX show.

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