I disclaim any special knowledge or competence to talk about presidential campaigns. I only worked in one, only then in California. I have rarely predicted the presidential vote outcome correctly.
I just wanted to observe the great similarity between the 2007-8 campaign of Barack Obama and the 2015 campaign of Donald Trump.
Both attack foreign countries. Trump attacks Mexico and China and promises to fix both problems. Obama attacked Canada and China and promised to fix both. He promised to change the NAFTA treaty with Canada then sent a private envoy to Canada to say he didn’t mean it.
Both attack their fellow candidates with impunity. Obama was especially nasty towards Hillary Clinton, Trump has been nasty to Carly Fiorina.
Both are treated as teflon royalty by the press. For different reasons. Obama’s extreme Lefty socialism was the same as the press’s views. They loved him for his skin color because of their white guilt and his public values.
They are deferential to Trump because he gets so much press and makes them seem important.
That is all that I see differently than the rest of the commentariat.