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Donald Trump can win Pennsylvania. Here's why
CNBC ^ | July 31, 2016 | Jeff Cox

Posted on 07/31/2016 11:55:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump essentially had his legion of Pennsylvania supporters at "I'm building a wall."

An anti-immigration stance is a powerful thing in a state that's been inundated with new residents from across the border. The composition of Pennsylvania's population has been shifting, with foreign-born residents now making up double the percentage of Keystone State citizens in 2015 than they did 25 years prior. (Immigrants still only make up 6.4 percent of the population.)

For some Pennsylvanians, the changes have been hard to bear. They complain of streets that aren't as safe as they used to be, and jobs that are harder to come by. They blame a perceived influx of immigrants, particularly Hispanics, for their woes.

Pennsylvania's jobless rate was 5.6 percent in June, with only 13 other states being worse off in terms of unemployment. So with a sagging economy and a rising crime rate, they look for reasons why they've been left behind....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Pennsylvania; Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; 2016swingstates; clinton; donaldtrump; hillary; hillaryclinton; pa2016; pennsylvania; trump
I wonder what the real unemployment rate is.
1 posted on 07/31/2016 11:55:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Your Linky is Stinky!

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/31/donald-trump-can-win-pennsylvania-heres-why.html


2 posted on 07/31/2016 11:57:40 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He appeals to working people in Pennsylvania. It’s the non-working and not-interested-in-working voters in Philadelphia that are the problem.


3 posted on 07/31/2016 12:06:24 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...They blame a perceived influx of immigrants, particularly Hispanics, for their woes...”

It’s not perception. It’s reality.


4 posted on 07/31/2016 12:08:11 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For decades both parties have been offering us amnesty candidate R or amnesty candiate D.
Neither party wanted to offer any enforcement.
The citizens have waited a long time for someone to be on the side of the rule of law.

This election will decide if Americans get to keep their country.


5 posted on 07/31/2016 12:08:13 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From his lips to God’s ears. I would LOVE to see the Keystone go for Trump. What a thrill that would be.

Pennsylvania hasn’t gone for e GOP president since Reagan. Here is hoping Trump makes some history taking Pennsylvania. I would love it.

http://www.270towin.com/states/Pennsylvania


6 posted on 07/31/2016 12:08:40 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Linkee no workee


7 posted on 07/31/2016 12:11:45 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: faithhopecharity

See #2.


8 posted on 07/31/2016 12:13:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder what percentage of the voters are dead?


9 posted on 07/31/2016 12:18:23 PM PDT by nicepaco
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks. Got it.


10 posted on 07/31/2016 12:20:39 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary is so scandalized Trump is a shoe-in.
11 posted on 07/31/2016 12:35:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other words the People in Pennsylvania are dummies but because they are dummies Trump can win (but he won’T).aren’t thee people nervy bastards?


13 posted on 07/31/2016 1:17:30 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other words the People in Pennsylvania are dummies but because they are dummies Trump can win (but he won’T).aren’t thee people nervy bastards?


14 posted on 07/31/2016 1:17:30 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: StAnDeliver

Sometimes she looks & sounds so much like my ex-wife it creeps me out.


15 posted on 07/31/2016 1:27:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop; 3D-JOY; Abbeville Conservative; Abby4116; abigkahuna; adc; Aleya2Fairlie; ...

Make America Great Again

Ping!

This ping provides two daily lists of links to Trump-related threads on FR.
To be added to or dropped from this ping list, freepmail to Albion Wilde.

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Selected Trump articles on FR, from 12:00 AM to 4:30 PM EDT, 7/31/16:
Trump supporters rally during Hillary Clinton event in Youngstown –WFMJtv
Karl Denninger-Only Way Out Is Stop Lawlessness Top to Bottom (video)
Citing Alleged Threats, FL Dem Seeks to Ban ‘Hillary’s America’ –Kristinn Taylor
Paul Manafort Interview on NBC "This Week" with Chuck Todd (7/31) (video)
Hillary Clinton bounces back in battleground states post-convention –YouGov
Jeff Sessions Full Interview on State of the Union (CNN) 7/31 (video)
Reince Priebus Full Interview with John Dickerson (Face the Nation) 7/31 (video)
Dinesh D'souza Full Interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro (7/30) (video)
Donald Trump can win Pennsylvania. Here's why –CNBC
Russia scholar shuts down CNN host who tries to link Trump to Putin (video)
Trump Leads Clinton in Virginia –RABAresearch
Donald Trump Full Interview with Stephanopoulos 7/31 (video)
Trump rescued from stalled elevator –CNN
Trump says he may let Russia keep Crimea –CBS
Virginia General Election: Trump 46% (+4) Clinton 42% –Twitter
Arizona Poll: Trump Holds 7.5% Lead over Hillary –Sundance
Pat Caddell Blasts Reuters’ Back-Rigging Polls to Show Clinton Winning –Breitbart
Dear FRiends, We need your continuing support to keep FR alive –Jim Robinson
“The Republican Party Platform: Finally, Pushback” –CFP
Clinton Image Improves Following Conventions; Leads Trump by 5 –PPP
ISIS new magazine "Break the cross" orders jihadis in West to attack Christians –ForeignDesk
Sharia and the Moral Economy of Islam in the West –GV
NFL agrees w Trump re debate sched; media raps him for ‘lying’ about letter –BizPac
LIVE: 2 Trump Rallies Sun 8/01 - Columbus OH 3pm; Harrisburg PA 7pm ET
Facebook Restricting User for Posting #HILLARYSAMERICA –GotNews
More than 5,000 Muslims Serving in US Military, Pentagon Says (12/8/15) –ABC
Muslims Expected 100,000 @ Rally in DC–a Couple Dozen Show Up –GP
Muslim Family of Fallen Army Captain Responds to Trump: 'Shame on Him' –ABC
'Vote For Paul Ryan Is Vote for Amnesty’: Luis Gutierrez Endorses Ryan –Julia Hahn
Koch Brothers Will Not Oppose Globalist Clinton; Ryan Headlines Event –Julia Hahn


16 posted on 07/31/2016 1:40:00 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would love for Trump to make heads explode by holding a rally right IN Phili and speak honestly and boldly to the blacks that he wants them to have school choice AND lift up out of the quagmire with jobs and mobility and protection under the rule of law.


17 posted on 07/31/2016 2:03:02 PM PDT by time4good
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Unemployment” is a slippery concept. You can be “employed” working 20 hours a week, and you can be “unemployed” when you reach mandatory retirement age - and actually are retired. If you stop looking because there are no jobs which pay and have conditions to which you are accustomed, you don’t end up employed until and unless you lower your expectations.

If you stay unemployed long enough, you are dropped from the rolls of the “unemployed” because you aren’t trying. But what controls that? Your expectations and your ability to get by without being employed - which all retirees do.

So the bottom line is that a good economy increases employment - and a bad economy does not. Always taking allowances for the size of the population in working age cohorts. Even if employment rises, the economy may be poor if - as in the present instance - immigrants are taking as many jobs as are being created, and native-born Americans are losing out.

A really good economy is when employment is rising among existing Americans, and immigrants are attracted to jobs over and above what existing Americans need and want.


18 posted on 07/31/2016 3:44:49 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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