Posted on 04/22/2016 6:59:38 AM PDT by detective
MOST analysis of Donald Trump’s support in the primary elections has focused on his appeal to poorer, working-class white voters, who are assumed to have lost the most to globalisation and are more open to his particular brand of populist politics. But his victory in the New York Republican primary on April 19th underscored his wider support across the party’s base. Mr Trump took 61% of the vote overall (the first time he has gained over 50%) winning across all demographic groups. That was to be expected in his home state. However, averaging out his support in all state primaries (where exit polling is available) shows that richer and better educated voters form as big a part of Mr Trump’s support base as those at the lower end of the income and education scales.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
The story about Donald Trump supporters being poor and uneducated is also untrue.
The media has been pushing the theme of poor uneducated Trump supporters as just one way to vilify him and try to delegitimize Trump's popularity.
Trump is not going to beat Hillary in NY. Not even close.
And you think Ted Cruz would?
In fascistic look step efficiency all the major “mainstream” business publications are globalist Free Trade propaganda engines. Never a thoughts to the contrary allowed, no questioning of a religious doctrine that clearly has decimated huge chuck of the economy.
The well educated middle class is seeing jobs going to H1Bs, and seeing their children having to take on huge loan burdens, while minority students get free rides. They are angry too.
You never know
Trump is popular here
And when Bernie gets screwed by the DNC, his supporters will support Trump.
This is going to be an interesting election
Hillary is afraid of Trump
That was why the media was pushing Cruz for the past couple months and trying to take out Trump at every chance they had
Most Trump supporters can be seen in the back of the special bus.
Wearing hockey helmets.
Or bearded men looking to use the girls locker room.
These media folks are insidious.
Yeah....I know, I know.
Jedi.
heh.
Pssssst....hey....hey....over here...psssst...need delegates?
He doesn’t need to. He needs Florida, Ohio and North Carolina to not go Clinton.
“Trump is not going to beat Hillary in NY. Not even close.”
Hillary Clinton is far more unpopular than most people think. Even with the media protecting her and lying to support her few people trust her or think she should be president.
Trump has undergone the most thorough attack in my lifetime.
He has been attacked by the media, The Republican establishment, the Democrats, activist thugs, leftists and the entertainment industry. Students are disciplined in school for supporting Trump. He has been called racist, bigoted and every other insult.
And yet Trump’s popularity keeps growing.
Trump will win in NY.
No Republican is going to win in NY. But part of the rationale for Trump's campaign is the assertion that he's going to put deep blue states like NY, MA, CT, etc. into play. That's nonsense.
Trump is the weakest general election candidate we could field. The Trumpkins will differ, of course, on the theory that the polls will magically shift when Donald starts "catering" to a general election audience. That he will do so by throwing the conservative base under the bus goes without saying.
Let me re-translate this garbage with comments in ( ) so it's true: "MOST analysis of Donald Trump’s support in the primary elections has focused on his appeal to poorer (people made poorer by the current administration) working-class white voters, who are assumed to have lost the most to (had far more of their paycheck and savings dimished than any other segment of the population taken to fund all the freebies the WH is handing out to their voter base) and are more open to his particular brand of populist politics (because they are rightly pissed off at being taken advantage of by this administration).
Maybe not but he can sure give her a contest in states like Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. I doubt Cruz would have a shot in any of them.
George Pataki agrees.
You forgot the Pope and the Presidente de Mehico slammed him too.
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/373230/becoming-party-work-senator-jeff-sessions
The GOP will crown K-Sick at the Convention.
GOP leaders reject change in presidential nominating rules
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Republican Party leaders turned aside an effort Thursday to change the rules at their national convention to make it harder for the GOP to choose a fresh presidential candidate, a prelude to what may be sharper battles ahead.
The showdown, which pitted the top echelons of the Republican National Committee against a renegade party committeeman from Oregon, came at a time when many in the GOP believe that top presidential contenders Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are likely losers in this November’s general election. Some have been hoping a new candidate will emerge at the party’s gathering in Cleveland, a scenario that has drawn the wrath of Trump and Cruz backers and many of the party’s grassroots conservatives.
Though the party’s 56-member rules committee rejected the proposal by voice vote, Thursday’s showdown was likely a mere skirmish compared to the battles that may occur in Cleveland over the bylaws the party will to choose its standard-bearer in this fall’s elections.
I personally think Trump will take his state of New York. I think when it comes to the final election they will want a New Yorker and one they think will help bring jobs back. It won’t dawn on them its their Democrats there holding them back.
Rudy and others will work hard for Donald there along with Donald’s rich friends too. Donald plans to pull from several New York people to be part of his team. He is getting a lot of respect by NOT taking their money even when pushed in his face.
We don’t have long to find out. It should be interesting.
Brilliant... Just brilliant... LOL...
Glad you pointed out that it is BS so you’re not completely inundated with nasty replies!
His populist common-sense message cuts across all demographics, as every poll shows. What Trump has done by means of what Scott Adams (an admirer) calls his “4th grade rhetoric” is speak to the “less highly educated” far more effectively than most politicians have ever done. So they not only relate to what he is saying, but how he says it, because it is the way they speak also. That is not only good politics but very effective persuasion.
Hillary will have to spend a lot of money in NY to win, and Trump actually likes New York. Hillary is uncomfortable outside of Washington.
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