This. There's always a swoon of low info voters for candidates who purportedly "tell it like it is". They tend to fade.
How is Trump going to maintain the media attention by invoking increasingly inflamatory statements for the next 6 months without people getting bored and/or turned off? Answer, he won't.
Likewise, I wouldn't hold hope of him doing well in the debates.
The one thing to separate him from being another Bachmann is his fortune. That'll keep him in the game as long as he wants (i.e. until the field has winnowed out to a few real contenders and his showings become humiliating).
"Low information voters." You mean folks who need elites explaining to them what is good for them, because they are either too lazy to figure it out for themselves or too stupid to know better?
People who follow public affairs even less than the typical American, and are easily swayed by lowest common denominator sound bites, at least until the race heats up and they start paying attention about a month before election day.
You mean folks who have figured out that someone other than themselves will profit from "free trade" as they drive by their factory that was shut down and the manufacturing moved to Mexico or China? You mean the people who have been victimized by illegal aliens committing crimes because they cannot work legally in the US? You mean people who see unlimited political ads on TV and billionaires accompanying their favorite candidates to key gatherings acting like their NASCAR sponsors and wonder why it is harder for them to afford some of what they have come to consider to by a part of middle class standard of living?
A lot of "high information" many voters have is noise to obliterate the bottom line that the person trying to stay in the middle class in America is being deliberately screwed by elites who, through condescending lecturing as to how John Q. doesn't really understand how economics really works, and please trust them with their trade and immigration policies. The low information voters know what they need to know, which is (A) the top 1% are getting richer, (B) the bottom 99% are getting further away from the top 1% and (C) this allow the top 1% to be even more predatory in their business and pricing practices. The elites that, in effect, persecute the middle class view the middle class of America as unable to percieve when they are being screwed.
Of course Sanders or O'Malley are better for the average person, but Trump is the one other candidate who strongly opposes sh**t like TPP. Clinton and Bush seem a little too chummy. In face, Bill and George W. are like best friends.
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