Samira wrote:
Well, that article tells me that neither Trump, his wife nor his lawyer knows what "rape" means.
It tells me that the author really really really wants to put the word "rape" next to Trump's name in an article. Let's see. His ex wife says he didn't rape her. He says he didn't rape her. His lawyer (who's a nutty idiot, but that's beside the point) also says he didn't rape her. No one involved legally in the divorce 30 years ago followed up on the supposed accusation, nor were any criminal charges filed. But hey! Someone wrote a book once in which Ivanna was attributed to using the word "rape" in some way during a divorce (in which billions of dollars were at stake), so let's just go with that.
Lol.
As far as Trumps effect on the primary, I think that's also a lot of smoke, but not much fire. The debate will have 10 people in it. Which is already far too large anyway. If the effect of that debate results in trimming the folks who can't get into the top ten nationally, that's still like twice as many people as we normally have going into the primaries anyway. And there's only speculation that this will happen anyway. It's one debate, on one network. And with 10 people on the stage, I fully expect it to be content free. I'm just not sure how much of an impact that has. It's more likely to eliminate someone than to launch them to prominence.
Let's not forget that I think Herman Cain was in the lead about this time last time around. I don't put much stock at all in relative poll numbers this early. It's basically short attention span theater right now.