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On a street in Ohio, defiant Democrats flock to Trump
CBS ^ | 21 Sep 2016 | JACQUELINE ALEMANY

Posted on 09/21/2016 7:57:09 AM PDT by mandaladon

STRUTHERS, OHIO — On a recent Saturday, standing in her driveway, Halle Minchin Skook could not fathom why her neighbor was pissing on Youngstown’s Democratic tradition and voting for Donald Trump this election cycle.

“He literally pees out his window,” Skook said, gesturing toward the house next door on Como Street, occupied by a Trump backer.

The 26-year-old special education teacher at Struthers Middle School didn’t even want to mow the strip of grass between her home and that of her neighbor.

“The stench of urine on the grass is awful,” her mother piped in.

Standing in the driveway outside her hunter green wood paneled childhood home where she still lived, Skook was scornful of the following that Trump has developed in Struthers, a traditionally Democratic stronghold in the heart of working class Mahoning County, along the eastern flank of Ohio.

“I don’t understand how any educated person who watches all of the political things on TV can vote for him,” Skook complained. “He’s getting nuclear launch codes if he gets elected. He would just blow up somewhere. I just don’t see him being a good leader.”

In case it wasn’t already clear, Skook is voting for Hillary Clinton.

But here on Como Street in Struthers, where CBS News spent a recent weekend knocking on every door on the block, Skook was in the minority. All around her, the community was ditching their Democratic roots and flocking to Trump.

Paul Sracic, who has lived in the area for years and is chair of the department of politics and international relations at Youngstown University, described Trump’s “blue-collar billionaire” identity as the perfect cocktail to attract onetime Democrats here.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2016election; elections; hillary; ohio; trump
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The story of these defections goes back to March when over 6,171 registered Democrats voted in the GOP primary that was a showdown between Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich​. Even the Democratic mayor of Struthers was caught with a Trump For President sign in his front yard.--------------------One more reason I believe Trump will win big across the US...
1 posted on 09/21/2016 7:57:09 AM PDT by mandaladon
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“They just don’t get it anymore with us,” Kulow said of the Democratic Party. “Maybe in an upscale area or downscale, maybe they’ll resonate. But around here — all working class and middle class, everyone has left the Democratic party. I can’t see myself ever going back.”------------------------Pay attention you libs!!!
2 posted on 09/21/2016 7:58:49 AM PDT by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: mandaladon

“So if you don’t pee out your window, vote for hilLIARy”

Got it...


3 posted on 09/21/2016 8:00:15 AM PDT by Mr. K (<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/1adpjl"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1adpjl.jpg" title="made at im)
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To: mandaladon
Just the day before, Stephenson received a letter in the mail from the Trump campaign asking her for money; the nerve of a billionaire candidate asking HER for a check, she thought. Naturally, she picked up the phone to call her daughter who lived across town to vent. That’s when she learned the news: her own daughter — a professional, college educated nurse — was voting for a man who made her “uncomfortable.”---------------Love this story!
4 posted on 09/21/2016 8:03:19 AM PDT by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: mandaladon

[“He literally pees out his window,”]

The man is probably tired of not having a pot in which to relieve himself.


5 posted on 09/21/2016 8:03:26 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: mandaladon

From CNN, Monday, July 18th (video must see):

Outside Cleveland, thousands of Democrats are becoming Republicans

Mahoning County, Ohio (CNN)Dozens of lifelong Democrats were calling and Mark Monroe knew something was going on. They were calling the local Republican Party chairman because they wanted to join his party.
They wanted to join Donald Trump’s party.

It turns out that registering is as easy as asking for a ballot on Ohio’s primary day. So, he told them, just show up on March 15, and request a Republican ballot. So they did.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/18/politics/cleveland-youngstown-ohio-democrats-republicans-political-anthropology/index.html


6 posted on 09/21/2016 8:04:34 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: mandaladon

Truth is. Truth will be seen for what it is. Truth cannot be hidden that long.

Once a critical mass of lower level operatives in the Clinton/Uniparty/FBI crime syndicate begin talking with immunity after January, gonna need a lot of popcorn.


7 posted on 09/21/2016 8:05:28 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: mandaladon; All

for liberals, everything is always all about pee in one manner or another.

this woman seems envious (in the, ahem, freudian sense).


8 posted on 09/21/2016 8:06:42 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: mandaladon

As if Hillary doesn’t ask for money, In fact her campaign has been defrauding thousands of one-time small donors by repeatedly charging their credit cards. The charges are always less than $100 because more than that causes the banks to launch a fraud investigation. Wells Fargo alone reports over 100 complaints a day of fraudulent charges by the Clinton campaign.


9 posted on 09/21/2016 8:16:16 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: mandaladon

This is as good a piece as any to mock the lefty media’s Cold Open/Personalized Narrative cliche that they’ve used to push their agenda for decades.

It’s meant, apparently, to allow some soft-headed run-with-the-crowd type to identify with John or Jane Doe as John or Jane Doe faces THE ISSUES.

It’s been done to death especially with Personal Narratives involving illegal aliens who, having brazenly broken the law are often found brazenly demanding public funds and accommodations.

It’s something I’ve always hated in newspapers and writers who learn the stupid technique in J school.


10 posted on 09/21/2016 8:16:37 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: SteveH

“He literally pee’s out his window”

“The man is probably tired of not having a pot in which to relieve himself.”...........

A PERFECT response!!! Bawhahahahahahahaha!


11 posted on 09/21/2016 8:20:44 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: stars & stripes forever

Or maybe, being a lib, the poor dear has just grown used to making up unchecked and unchallenged fantastic stories about political enemies.


12 posted on 09/21/2016 8:21:08 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary's screeching voice is like the pipe organs of hell)
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To: mandaladon
described Trump’s “blue-collar billionaire” identity as the perfect cocktail to attract onetime Democrats here

Trump has 50 years of making a point of chatting with construction workers, maids, and other working class people, to find out about issues before they grow into big issues at his properties.

This means he knows how to communicate to the working class, and convince them that there is no future for white working-class people in any area which is Dem controlled.

13 posted on 09/21/2016 8:23:59 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: COBOL2Java

At first I thought this had to be from the Onion (i.e. the pee), but then I had to click the link.


14 posted on 09/21/2016 8:27:21 AM PDT by wareagle7295
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To: mandaladon

Why is CBS News knocking on doors in Ohio campaigning for Hillary Clinton?


15 posted on 09/21/2016 8:27:38 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: PapaBear3625

You got it

I read some where where Trump would go to a party with elites and stay an hour and go home and go to work

Maybe he can shame congress into working


16 posted on 09/21/2016 8:33:00 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: mandaladon

I thought the story was going to have a better ending: “...that’s when she got the news; that her daughter had also begun peeing out the window.”


17 posted on 09/21/2016 8:35:14 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: mandaladon

Another illustration of how out of touch the media elites are with the average American. They live in a bubble...no clue.


18 posted on 09/21/2016 8:38:14 AM PDT by randita
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You mean a street-smart Democrat thinks Mrs. Bill won’t charge them two or three times?


19 posted on 09/21/2016 8:51:58 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: mandaladon
“I don’t understand how any educated person who watches all of the political things on TV can vote for him,” Skook complained...

This is what we're up against in the moronic world of Dems who watch all of the 'political things on tv...'

When this is over and Trump is Potus these 'educated people' will be back to watching Dancing with the Stars and The Bachelor like the character Frito masturbating to food porn in the movie Idiocracy...

20 posted on 09/21/2016 8:55:57 AM PDT by Geronimo (Voting for Hillary is the political equivalent of coprophagia...)
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