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Blue-collar Democrats to party: It's still the economy, stupid
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Posted on 11/25/2016 3:29:38 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

David Betras could see trouble coming.

The Democratic Party chairman in Youngstown, Ohio, wrote to Hillary Clinton's advisers in May warning she needed to put a jobs-focused message at the heart of her White House campaign or else watch blue-collar voters in states like Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania slip away to Republican Donald Trump.

Clinton never responded to Betras, and in the final weeks of her campaign she spent much of her time portraying Trump as unfit, rather than highlighting her economic plans. On Nov. 8, Election Day, Betras' warning proved prescient — she lost Ohio and Pennsylvania and, on Wednesday, Michigan, too, based on the latest unofficial ballot counts.

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Who wants to bet the party doesn't learn from this?

Next election will have transgender toilets and climate change as the top issues for them. I am not sure they are even capable of caring about the working man any more.

1 posted on 11/25/2016 3:29:38 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
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Next election will have transgender toilets and climate change as the top issues for them.

Hillary and Obama for Rapists in the Women and girl's bathrooms was a hoot. A real War on Women.

2 posted on 11/25/2016 3:35:47 AM PST by CptnObvious
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She never had a coherent economic plan other than tax the dickens out of everyone and give freebies to those who pay no taxes. Geez, what a winning plan that would have been.

As for the Democrat Party, they lost the American worker, just ask the Teamsters, and especially the Teachers Unions. They are all navel gazing now with not a clue as to how they lost their members. Good ridden you bunch of socialist bassturds. You got Trumped, Big League!


3 posted on 11/25/2016 3:58:57 AM PST by mazda77
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you mean transgender muslim toilets.


4 posted on 11/25/2016 4:04:14 AM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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That might be an understatement. I believe they will actually run an open homosexual or ttansgender candidate for president in 2020, possibly some for Congress in 2018. That way, they can use the hater cards for those who want to vote against them.


5 posted on 11/25/2016 4:06:12 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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They’re going to try to reconstitute the “Obama coalition” with a Corey Booker and Kamala Harris ticket.


6 posted on 11/25/2016 4:09:43 AM PST by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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The Bolshekratic Party believes it is the skin color, stupid.


7 posted on 11/25/2016 5:31:54 AM PST by depressed in 06 (I'm going to have to come up with a new tag line.)
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This should be a lesson to republicans. Now that they have blue collar democrats, build on that.


8 posted on 11/25/2016 7:41:33 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Best election ever.)
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Yes they will. They have learned the wrong lesson. In fact, I expect them to kick people like David Betras to the curb as annoyances who are disrupting their Vision of Utopia.


9 posted on 11/25/2016 7:44:20 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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“Obama coalition” = vote solely based upon skin color


10 posted on 11/25/2016 8:22:05 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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