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EXCLUSIVE– Amish PAC Endorses Trump, Launches Billboards in Pennsylvania
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/26/exclusive-4/ ^ | 26 Jul 2016 | Alex Swoyer

Posted on 07/26/2016 10:28:47 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

Amish PAC endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump and launched billboards in Lancaster, Pennsylvania — west of Philadelphia where the Democratic National Convention is being held this week.

"Pennsylvania has a good shot of going Republican in November and these billboards will certainly help by getting people registered and to the polls," said Ben King, the outreach director for Amish PAC.

The goal of the billboards is to educate Amish and Mennonite voters about Trump.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016endorsements; 2016swingstate; amish; amishfortrump; amishpac; amishsuperpac; amishvote; christianvote; mennonites; pa2016; pafortrump; painplay; pennsylvania; trump; trump2016
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To: Jack Hydrazine

How about we call them “negroes”, or “blacks”, or “colored people”, or “people of color”, or “afro-Americans”, or “african-Americans” ...


41 posted on 07/26/2016 11:05:53 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: NorthMountain

Let’s substitute the term golden retriever.


42 posted on 07/26/2016 11:07:43 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: sten
Various brands of Amish. It is interesting that Ohio and Pennsylvania have the two highest populations in the country. There are also significant populations in Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota.

My rough guess is that about 40% of them might be persuaded to vote, overwhelmingly the men. George W. Bush's campaign made significant effort in 2004 and got maybe half that number.

At the time, most of them offered to pray for him but weren't much interested in registering to vote. Things may have changed a lot in 12 years.

Most Amish understand that they need to make minor compromises to live in modern era. They can use power tools as long as someone else owns them. They can even have phones as long as it is a community type phone in a booth outside their homes. That includes mobile as well as landlines.

They still have large families and the custom of sending their kids out to live among the English (non-Amish) for two years as they reach adulthood. Those who decide not to return face considerably less shunning (ostracism) as in the past. On the contrary, many become valuable contacts to promote more business opportunities with the non-Amish world. This includes a lot, lot more than building barns and selling agricultural produce now.

43 posted on 07/26/2016 11:07:44 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: SamAdams76

The truth will make you free.


44 posted on 07/26/2016 11:08:44 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Amish Amish or Freeper Amish? I gots to know.


45 posted on 07/26/2016 11:09:27 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( Go Trump!!! Kick ass and take names!!!)
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To: USCG SimTech

A common Amish joke in these parts is that God made Mennonites to drive the Amish where they need to go.


46 posted on 07/26/2016 11:10:47 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Wow, amazing.


47 posted on 07/26/2016 11:11:33 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yet I had seen Amish ride the trains going to and from western PA when I was away a few weeks back.


48 posted on 07/26/2016 11:12:43 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: bkopto

They know our country is in BIG TROUBLE and that one of their home state cities is hosting the radical lefties this week.


49 posted on 07/26/2016 11:14:46 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

http://mennoworld.org/2016/07/25/news/ads-introduce-trump-to-the-amish/

http://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/amish-pac-launches-newspaper-ads-to-introduce-the-plain-community/article_b5b2b7c8-4940-11e6-8b28-a7a06b9a1fc7.html

http://www.cpbj.com/article/20160713/CPBJ01/160719928/amish-pac-launches-protrump-ads

And this from 2012:

She’s so comfortable that not long ago she stepped up on a political soapbox during a conversation with an Amish man: “I kind of shook my finger at him and said, ‘You know, if you Amish would vote we wouldn’t have Barack Obama as president.’”

The man put his head down and answered, “I know.”

https://world.wng.org/2012/11/getting_out_the_amish_vote_turnout_may_prove_pivotal_in_ohio_and_pennsylvania


50 posted on 07/26/2016 11:17:10 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: Biggirl
Trains are definitely the best way to go since the technology was available when many of their ancestors arrived from Germany and, thus, is not considered modern.

Unfortunately, trains do not go everywhere the Amish need to go these days, so they will ride in buses or automobiles as long as someone else is driving.

51 posted on 07/26/2016 11:18:57 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Wow! Obama/Hillary managed to piss off the Amish.


52 posted on 07/26/2016 11:42:39 AM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: AlaskaErik
Just one problem. The Amish don’t vote.

Yes they do. I believe it is the Mennonites who don't

53 posted on 07/26/2016 11:49:47 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Vigilanteman
A common Amish joke in these parts is that God made Mennonites to drive the Amish where they need to go.

Based on my observations, that what the "English" are for.

54 posted on 07/26/2016 11:50:07 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: sten

GW got their endorsement years ago. The FedGov has been after them for a long time. Water, milk, not hiring pickers, EPA, etc. This is probably their way of fighting back.


55 posted on 07/26/2016 11:51:05 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Rebelbase

Alaska Bush people got convicted .....Bush did it!


56 posted on 07/26/2016 11:53:11 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Rebelbase

Is that backwards mounted Eotech I spy on his weapon?


57 posted on 07/26/2016 11:54:15 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Rebelbase

Is that backwards mounted Eotech I spy on his weapon?


58 posted on 07/26/2016 11:54:19 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: NorthMountain
Yep. But they're not owned or operated by Amish, so it's OK.

Neither is Amish PAC.

Amish for Trump

59 posted on 07/26/2016 11:59:45 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: FR_addict
That’s a lot of votes.

But not a lot of turnout.

"Donald Kraybill, an expert on the Amish people at Elizabethtown College, said he guesses that the most generous turnout scenario would be about 2,000 Amish voters each in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

In 2004, President George W. Bush received about 1,300 Amish votes in heavily Amish Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he said — the product of the most successful political outreach to the community in recent memory.

“George W. Bush is not Donald Trump,” said Kraybill, whom the PAC is hoping to consult (he declined to say whether he would respond to it, though he hasn’t yet).

“There’s a lot of aspects about Trump that are antithetical to Amish values and Amish beliefs,” Kraybill said. “This is a very different situation now than it was in 2004.”"

60 posted on 07/26/2016 12:03:39 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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