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The appeal of Donald Trump to angry low information voters
examiner.com ^ | 9 9 2015

Posted on 09/20/2015 9:03:33 AM PDT by dennisw

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To: Louis Foxwell
Trump is also winning the approval of angry high information voters.

Yup. I'm a news junkie here and on Breitbart and consider myself well informed politically.

21 posted on 09/20/2015 9:18:54 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: dennisw

Damn right we’re angry. About that “low information” crap, though. I have a PhD. My friend who likes Trump has a Ph.D. Another friend with a Ph.D. likes Trump-—not his #1 but acceptable. How many Ph.D.s do you need for the group not to be “low information?”


22 posted on 09/20/2015 9:19:13 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Louis Foxwell

I was going to post the same thing. Thank you.

The more people know about the disgusting nonsense that is going on, the angrier they should be. We’re mad as hell and we’re not taking it anymore.


23 posted on 09/20/2015 9:20:23 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: dennisw

Well, I “tried” to read this article and then I felt my breakfast on the way up and quit!


24 posted on 09/20/2015 9:21:16 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Gaffer
"Who is low-information?"

I would submit that the true low-information voters are the ones who elected Obama, twice. The only reason that many voted for him instead of a war hero or a successful businessman is that he is half-African.

I thought Christians were supposed to spend their Sunday mornings in church, not on the golf course. How much time has Obama devoted to these two different activities over the last 7 years?

25 posted on 09/20/2015 9:21:34 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: dennisw
More on the author.
Leo Kapakos is a seasoned ex-Wall Street executive turned writer. Leo’s very well-versed in finance and economics and isn’t always happy with the way Wall Street conducts itself. A self-described “political junkie”, Leo’s no-nonsense op-eds have taken on politicians, bankers, and the media. Leo is a native New Yorker who is an avid sports fan, classic movie lover, and a dog lover. He has written on all these topics. He has been featured on Socyberty, Sportales, Newsflavor, Bizcovering, CinemaRolling, and EastsideBoxing.com.
Since he likes to cite the Democratic Party’s Public Policy Polling as fact, he is more political flunkie than “junkie.”

Never mind Kapakos’ defense of Zerocare from this article:
The Trumpsters have also bought into the Trump and the GOP talking point that Obamacare is a disaster but Trump will fix it because he has a better plan…whatever that might be. Meanwhile, a recent Gallup poll found that 71 percent of those with coverage in the marketplaces said their coverage was “excellent” or “good.” Over 23 million people are now covered through the Affordable Care Act including 10.3 million people who were previously uninsured dropping the uninsured rate by over 25 percent. This year, premiums in the marketplaces increased an average of 4 percent, in line with what is happening in the employer-based market. Contrast that with the year before the the act became law, 2009 to 2010, when premiums increased an average of “15 percent” for those who purchased coverage in the individual market for more than one year. The ACA marketplaces are creating more choices and competition which is one of the reasons why premiums are remaining relatively flat in the exchanges. This year, the number of insurers offering coverage in the marketplaces has increased 25 percent. The FACTS show that the ACA is doing what it was created to do and the goal should be to improve the law where it needs improving, not re-litigate or repeal like Trump wants. …
No, the facts are against you, Leo.
26 posted on 09/20/2015 9:21:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: dennisw

LOL

DennisW, careful, you’re going over the sensometer. We may have a Democrat come in and his head explode.


27 posted on 09/20/2015 9:21:41 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: dennisw
Anybody not accepting the hand-picked candidates of the establishment will be tarred and feathered as "low information" voters.
28 posted on 09/20/2015 9:22:26 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Trump sat in the Marble Collegiate and learned about the power of positive thinking.


29 posted on 09/20/2015 9:22:55 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Bryanw92
Before my first voting adventure...my dad sat me down and told me the story of the Kennedy family.

Having just left my all girls Catholic school, a few months before, it rocked my head.

What we were taught....you should vote for him because he is a Catholic and therefore the better person.

I did not vote for him.

30 posted on 09/20/2015 9:24:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Lisbon1940

Latest poll. Out today.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/nbc-online-survey-fiorina-won-debate-trump-still-leads-n430316


31 posted on 09/20/2015 9:24:19 AM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Bryanw92

Dude, it’s tough to be the little kid in “The Emperor’s New Clothes” ;)


32 posted on 09/20/2015 9:24:56 AM PDT by papertyger (Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui neat. / Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who denies)
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To: dennisw
Haha.

The libs and MSM thought they could deliver those voters to Hillary.


33 posted on 09/20/2015 9:25:32 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Travis McGee

I love that


34 posted on 09/20/2015 9:25:49 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Louis Foxwell

I think of myself as more of a Bitter Clinger (tm)


35 posted on 09/20/2015 9:25:56 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: Travis McGee

Excellent cartoon. Thanks for posting.

Trump has yet to feel the full wrath of the moneyed interests in DC, its allies in the GOP, and the liberal media working on behalf of the Democrats. These attacks are going to get a lot worse. Trump is a mortal threat to them.


36 posted on 09/20/2015 9:26:13 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: dennisw

Still haven’t figure out this movement. Sure, it’s fun to watch him... he is a complete nuisance to the MSM, they just don’t know how to handle him. But, 10 minutes on your favorite search engine exposes what Trump really is... and a conservative he is not. Not even close


37 posted on 09/20/2015 9:26:24 AM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: NKP_Vet

And because Islam is anti-American, anti-western, and when all is said and done, anti-white, which group mostly created western civilisation.


38 posted on 09/20/2015 9:26:25 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: dennisw
This ignorance despite the FACT that the President’s campaign in 2008 posted his legal birth certificate showing a live birth in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961

The damn birth certificate was a photoshop altered copy.

39 posted on 09/20/2015 9:27:33 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: NKP_Vet

Didn’t he also say “God Damn America” or something very close to that?

Now there’s a Christian for ya...


40 posted on 09/20/2015 9:28:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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