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There’s no writing off Donald Trump in polarised white America
The South China Morning Post ^ | August 2, 2016 | Niall Ferguson

Posted on 08/02/2016 12:38:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Georgia Girl 2

Yep... keep calling the people, who keep this country moving, names. That’ll keep from voting... /sarc


21 posted on 08/02/2016 12:56:03 PM PDT by KnutKase (VRWC member since 1988)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

The constant attempts to pigeonhole voters are as tiresome as the half dozen polls issued every day.


22 posted on 08/02/2016 12:56:32 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
That's the case with me and my real world friends, family and neighbors. Many have several post grad degrees and some would be considered "elite", because of which schools they went to and their net worth.

That's the thing about Trump detractors....they look down their noses at ALL Trump supporters.

23 posted on 08/02/2016 12:58:39 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Well this sounds good except that everyone I know who is voting Trump has one or more college degrees.

I can attest to that. Trump won me over a year ago. And I'm a woman with a BS and MS in physics.

24 posted on 08/02/2016 12:59:28 PM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: ExSES
Welcome to that club! LOL

That whole meme re ALL Trump supporters are stupid, un/ill educated at inferior schools, and poor, is beyond ridiculous!

25 posted on 08/02/2016 1:01:22 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most of my friends are college educated, fully employed and economically comfortable. I don’t have any rich friends, but I also don’t no anyone who lives in ‘Fishtown’. We are ALL enthusiastically supporting Donald Trump!


26 posted on 08/02/2016 1:02:54 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You have the DC elite, screwing over America for their own gain. They get your vote, head to DC and do nothing to help. They throw out niceties, platitudes and promises that consistently fail.
A huge portion of the population is sick of it.
Enter Trump.


27 posted on 08/02/2016 1:04:05 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: NEWwoman

Dang! Are you married?? :)


28 posted on 08/02/2016 1:04:52 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: pgkdan
but I also don’t no

Errr...make that KNOW, please!

29 posted on 08/02/2016 1:05:40 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: No_More_Harkin

Yes. To a PhD in EE. Once a Democrat, now Independent. But he’s on the Trump Train.


30 posted on 08/02/2016 1:05:59 PM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think he didn’t quite get the divide right.

On one side is

(1) government employees,

(2) university faculty and employees (which because of student loans are basically government employees),

(3) transnational managers of supra-national corporations,

(4) blacks as a racial bloc,

(5) 2/3 hispanics as a racial bloc,

(6) other immigrant populations,

(7) single white women who want Uncle Sugar Daddy,

(8) true-believer communists and socialists and

(9) other groups and persons who benefit from the status quo looting of america, e.g. many lawyers.

On the other side is:

(1) the portion of America which has significant roots in this country, including most white people and

(2) most law enforcement, military and veterans.


31 posted on 08/02/2016 1:07:53 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The problem with elitist libs is that they just think they are smarter than everyone else. Yet they make the stupidest policies that accomplish exactly the opposite what they were attempting to do. But sometimes they are just duplicitous.

What they really mean to say is “you are too stupid to get by on your own so we will figure things out for you”.

It may be too much to ask they get their comeuppance this fall. This is truly a pivotal election. If Hildabeast gets elected, we have seen the end of the USA.


32 posted on 08/02/2016 1:12:20 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

The Hispanics in my neighborhood and my South African wound care nurse are for Trump.


33 posted on 08/02/2016 1:12:31 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: 17th Miss Regt

I loved that line from Goodwill Hunting.


34 posted on 08/02/2016 1:13:46 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Ferguson is a smart guy but he’s Scottish and here’s what he and everyone else who is not “one of us” misses: it’s not just those in the “silent majority” who are going for Trump but their extended families and friends. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got a PhD and a good job, if your kids are 30 and living in the basement, or you fight with your wife constantly about sending money to her sister and brother-in-law who are blue collar folks working two jobs and still in danger of losing their house. Sooner or later you’re going to hear Trump’s message and realize he can fix this, while Hillary is a big part of the reason they are this way to begin with.


35 posted on 08/02/2016 1:15:09 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This election is NOT about race. It’s about competence, honesty, the Bill of Rights and Constitution, and borders.


36 posted on 08/02/2016 1:15:18 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: ExSES

To be fair..some “shite trash” support Trump..hope they vote for him and not stay home/trailers. :)


37 posted on 08/02/2016 1:16:30 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The wages of decades of smugness is Trump.”


38 posted on 08/02/2016 1:16:37 PM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I forgot to add muslims and homosexuals in group 1.

Trump has the potential to do significantly better than Romney with legal Hispanics and blacks.

I think if Trump can get >35% of legal hispanics and >15% of blacks he’ll win the election by a comfortable margin.

On the other hand, the Dems will likely pull out all the stops on vote fraud.


39 posted on 08/02/2016 1:17:05 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

You probably have it pretty much right, with the stipulation that there many blacks, Hispanics, and others who do not vote according to the “racial bloc” they are aligned with. The “identity politics” of the Democrat party is built around this entire premise, which I think we are increasingly seeing is false.


40 posted on 08/02/2016 1:19:31 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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