Trump is unlikely to win the general, so the analogy falls flat right off the bat.
He was unlikely to win the primary last year, and unlikely to be so close to the nomination when he started primary winning...he's not out yet.
But seriously, anyone else find it suspicious that both did the worst in primaries/caucuses in the West and did ridiculously good in the Northeast and South...two "polar opposites"?
Come on...Trump was leading every primary poll for almost a year now. The people who said he was unlikely to win the primary have been wrong about everything. Doesn't change the fact that he's always been a big underdog in the general election.
And I don't find it surprising Hillary/Trump were strongest in the South/Northeast and weaker in the West. The West has long preferred principled ideoologues over dealmakers and grimace at any whiff of corruption. n the other hand, the Northeast Dems are very "establishment-oriented" and the GOP there is moderate in the same way Trump is.....as far as the South goes, it's also pretty clear - minorities are very establishment-Dem, and Trump is very much a good candidate for much of the South.
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