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Inside the world of Donald Trump’s super fans
Washington Post ^ | 10/26/15 | Jenna Johnson

Posted on 10/26/2015 11:59:49 AM PDT by BigEdLB

ANDERSON, S.C. — Paulette Del Casale and a friend drove nearly three hours last week from the Atlanta suburbs to this rural, northwest corner of South Carolina to experience a Donald Trump rally — again.

It was Del Casale’s fourth Trump event in three states and the first time she has volunteered for a political campaign. She cheered through the Republican presidential candidate’s hour-long speech and, afterward, posed for photos with new friends and plugged a private Facebook group she helps moderate, “Trump Defeats the Establishment.”

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


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Trump has solid hard core support.
1 posted on 10/26/2015 11:59:49 AM PDT by BigEdLB
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To: BigEdLB

Good for her!


2 posted on 10/26/2015 12:02:11 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: BigEdLB

But Ethanol-loving Carson may win Iowa.


3 posted on 10/26/2015 12:03:14 PM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: BigEdLB

I read the article. I do not think the author intended it to, but it reads like one long ad for Trump.


4 posted on 10/26/2015 12:06:29 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: BigEdLB
What ever happened to Hillary's "Super Volunteers?"

Remember? Back in March, they were warning the New York Times that certain words were "coded sexism," at least when those words were used in connection with the Super Volunteers' favorite presidential candidate.

Those words included: polarizing, calculating, disingenuous, insincere, ambitious, inevitable, entitled, over confident, secretive, out of touch and represents the past.

Source.

5 posted on 10/26/2015 12:06:39 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: BigEdLB
Donald Trump SUPER FAN!!!!
6 posted on 10/26/2015 12:06:47 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to repeal and replace the GOP)
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To: petercooper

“But Ethanol-loving Carson may win Iowa.”

Wake up FReepers. Carson is NOT our friend.


7 posted on 10/26/2015 12:07:42 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: marktwain

Trump is at 40 in S Carolina. Not a problem like Iowa


8 posted on 10/26/2015 12:09:00 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: petercooper

Just like Huckabee and Santorum. It really did wonders for them.


9 posted on 10/26/2015 12:09:28 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

There are a lot more ‘not friends’ than there are ‘friends’ and the ‘friends’ group grows smaller everyday.


10 posted on 10/26/2015 12:09:57 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: stephenjohnbanker

We still have 3 months to get the word out and turn Iowa around.


11 posted on 10/26/2015 12:10:21 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: Kartographer

Every network in America is trying to destroy Trump. Fox/WSJ are trying the hardest. Also BOTH parties. Yet, he is still ahead of the pack.


12 posted on 10/26/2015 12:11:55 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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It’s my hope that Trump supporters stay loyal and not be swayed by negative ads - they don’t affect me, but I’m not sure about others.


13 posted on 10/26/2015 12:14:50 PM PDT by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: BigEdLB
Until this year, Del Casale had never volunteered for a campaign or really cared about politics. She grew up in a blue-collar family in Brooklyn and was the first in her family to attend college. Early on, she voted for Democrats, including Bill Clinton.

But about a decade ago, she became disenchanted with both parties. It felt like the Democrats were no longer “the people’s party,” she said, so last year, she voted for Republicans for the first time — only to be disappointed that not much has changed in Washington.

14 posted on 10/26/2015 12:14:58 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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See I don't like ethanol in my gasoline and here is why. By the time you waste water on the corn — trillions of gallons of underground water — and then to run millions of miles of heavy tractors guzzling fuels and spewing smoke in the planting and harvesting and then you put that crap in gasoline you have huge environmental and economic cost not even close to being reasonable!!
15 posted on 10/26/2015 12:15:38 PM PDT by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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But Ethanol-loving Carson may win Iowa.

I can't see how that has anything at all to do with the article. I read the whole article. I looked and looked and couldn't find anything that even remotely mentions Carson, Iowa and ethanol. Just saying.

16 posted on 10/26/2015 12:15:57 PM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: petercooper

Santorum and Huckabee won Iowa. How did they do against Romney and McCain?


17 posted on 10/26/2015 12:16:12 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.)
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The following quote whether it was from Donald Trump or an intern certainly didn't help The Donald in Iowa.

"@mygreenhippo #BenCarson is now leading in the #polls in #Iowa. Too much #Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain? #Trump #GOP" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2015

18 posted on 10/26/2015 12:16:45 PM PDT by Newfy
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To: BigEdLB

Yes we do.


19 posted on 10/26/2015 12:19:07 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: BigEdLB

An attempt to denigrate and dismiss Trumps attendees at his events.

They want you to think the same group follows trump around to each event.

They want you to think each person is a rabid fan(attic) rather than a person who actually likes Trump’s platform.

They want you to believe that hardly anyone at one of these events is going to vote for Trump or is even old enough to.

They also want you to think that Trump is lying about self-funding. They tout how much his supporters have sent in, and how much he has spent. 70-80% of what he spent came from supporters. They don’t mention he has spent the lowest of anyone.

Trump has brought in somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/(60th-80th) of the money Hillary Clinton has.

It’s simply amazing what he has done on next to nothing.

Don’t pay attention to that though. He really doesn’t know how to manage money, his bottom line, and maximizing his bang for buck. You should not think this means he would do the same sorts of things for the nation.

As Obama would say, “Don’t jump to conclusions.”

“Totally unexpected!”


20 posted on 10/26/2015 12:19:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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