Posted June 28th, 2016 @ 9:33am
For months I have been saying mostly good things in this blog about Trump’s powers of persuasion, and mostly bad things about how the Clinton campaign does persuasion. And yet Clinton has a solid lead in the polls, assuming the polls are accurate. How can that be?
The quick answer is that Clinton’s side is totally winning the persuasion battle.
Confused?
0 CommentsPosted June 23rd, 2016 @ 11:24am in #Trump #clinton2016 #sexism
Perhaps the biggest unreported story of this presidential election is the humiliation of the American male. Unless I’m blinded by confirmation bias – which is entirely possible – it seems to me that the humiliation of American men is now institutionalized in the media.
0 CommentsPosted June 22nd, 2016 @ 9:17am in #Trump #clinton2016
On average, Democrats (that’s my team*) use guns for shooting the innocent. We call that crime.
On average, Republicans use guns for sporting purposes and self-defense.
If you don’t believe me, you can check the statistics on the Internet that don’t exist. At least I couldn’t find any that looked credible.
0 CommentsPosted June 21st, 2016 @ 2:09pm in #Trump
Lewandowski Firing
Trump fired Corey Lewandowski yesterday. Is that bad or good?
Well, if you are on the Clinton team, you try to frame it as campaign chaos, and evidence that Trump doesn’t hire the best people.
0 CommentsPosted June 19th, 2016 @ 9:43am in #trump #clinton2016
Regular readers of this blog know I’m a trained hypnotist. I’ve been studying the ways of persuasion – in all its forms – for decades.
0 CommentsPosted June 16th, 2016 @ 9:55pm
Remember last year when I said Trump would have a movie-style third act that would boost him into the lead? Later I predicted that a Megyn Kelly interview with Trump would mark that third act.
The Megyn Kelly interview that I predicted happened. At about the same time, Trump drew even with Clinton in the polls, perhaps a bit ahead, also as I predicted. So, my prediction of the third act was right, right?
Well, not so fast.
0 CommentsPosted June 15th, 2016 @ 9:09am in #Trump #clinton2016
As I have said several times in this blog, Trump often uses confirmation bias in his influence. He creates a mental framework for us to view our world and then waits for future events to fill in the details.
0 CommentsPosted June 14th, 2016 @ 9:25am in #Trump #clinton2016
My mother often quoted an old-timey saying: “You can get used to hanging if you do it long enough.”
That’s good homespun psychology. Humans will see nearly anything as normal if they are exposed to it long enough. I’m sure ISIS fighters feel they are acting in a normal way after committing several atrocities in a row. We humans can get used to anything.
0 CommentsPosted June 13th, 2016 @ 10:42am
Some of you don’t follow me on Twitter, so here are some of my more provocative tweets of late. See more fun at @scottadamssays
0 CommentsPosted June 13th, 2016 @ 8:27am in #Trump Clinton ISIS Orlando
My thoughts today are with the victims in Orlando and the LGBT community at large. It is too early for me to write about this tragedy in a political context, but two of my past blog posts are, sadly, relevant to understanding what will come next. They are both worth revisiting.
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