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Barf alert: Ahead of 2020 election, a 'Blue Wave' is rising in the cities, polling analysis shows
MSN/RotoRooters ^ | 2/19/2020 | Chris Kahn

Posted on 02/19/2020 2:37:20 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable

NEW YORK — As Republican President Donald Trump seeks a second term in November, Americans' interest in voting is growing faster in large cities dominated by Democrats than in conservative rural areas, according to an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos national opinion polls.

If the trend lasts until Election Day on Nov. 3, it would be a reversal from the 2016 election when rural turnout outpaced voting in urban areas, helping Trump narrowly win the White House.

The finding, based on responses from more than 88,000 U.S. adults who took the online poll from August to December 2015 or from August to December 2019, suggests that the “Blue Wave,” a swell of anti-Trump activism that followed his entry into the White House in 2017, is still rolling across the country's largest population centers.

Even as Trump commands rock-solid support among Republicans, voters' interest in going to the polls appears to be growing faster among those who disapprove of Trump than among those who approve of him, according to experts who reviewed the data.

The advantage in urban political engagement extends deep into the most competitive battleground states that Trump won by razor-thin margins four years ago, the data shows. In large urban areas of the upper Midwest, a region that includes swing states Michigan and Wisconsin, for example, the number of people who said they were “certain” to vote in the upcoming presidential election rose by 10 percentage points to 67% compared with survey responses from 2015.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: barfalert; fakenews; mabluewave; minimike; rotorooter
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To: noiseman

‘It’s like winning the World Series 4 games to 2, but losing by a large margin in the two losses.’

when the Pirates won the 1960 WS, 4 games to three, for weeks afterwards I had to listen to all the Yankee fans in NE Jersey telling me how badly the Pirates were outplayed; it was in fact a true statement (pitcher Bob Friend in particular) but none of them truly believed it...just steam being released...


21 posted on 02/19/2020 3:03:02 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Trump.Deplorable
😂😂😂😂. Some of our 'acquaintances' wasted 5 or more hours in line at the nevaDUH* cockuses yesterday. Sorta like nannies bloomers has wasted $ 400+ million on his ongoing attempt to be Mr. Big. *We live here so we can say that. 😬
22 posted on 02/19/2020 3:03:29 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

This “BLUE WAVE” is the same material if frozen is the same as Joe Dirt’s meteor.


23 posted on 02/19/2020 3:05:06 PM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: ksc

Dang, I better self-quarantine. If I’m left alive after the plague sweeps through the city, my Republican vote actually might count for something.


24 posted on 02/19/2020 3:07:33 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Trump.Deplorable

It’s time to ramp up the cheating machine as their dog whistle blows. This election will be a disgusting and vile event by the left.


25 posted on 02/19/2020 3:13:20 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: setter

[Article is spot on.

The white, college educated, urban and suburban voters are not voting Trump. Heck I see that on FB with all my friends who meet criteria above. They can’t stand Trump especially white women.]


I’m getting a bit of cognitive dissonance with an earlier comment of yours:

[One day whites will get fed up with this nonsense. I’ve already started to see the backlash on FB on various post from middle of the road political folks.
James Carville said the democrat party has lost it’s da*m mind and if he has noticed others have also.]

Are these people worked up, but still anti-Trump anyway?


26 posted on 02/19/2020 3:21:41 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable
The sky is falling!
The sky is falling!
It's a good thing we have at least 55-million illegal migrant invaders among us to save our bacon... Snicker...
27 posted on 02/19/2020 3:22:37 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

The extent to which they had to torture the numbers to come out with this headline is revealing enough to dismiss this as nonsense.

Florida just clocked a +14k R voter registration advantage over the Dems and there is no R primary to bring people out.


28 posted on 02/19/2020 3:28:08 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Democrat Urban Bastions are Panicking.


29 posted on 02/19/2020 3:33:03 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: Zhang Fei

“Are these people worked up, but still anti-Trump anyway?”

The democrat party (Sanders/Warren) left them but they don’t like Trump. They would vote Bloomburg or Hillary or maybe a Klobuchar.

This is going to be a incredibly close election. Trump does not have it in the bag. Over 50% of the country are now the takers. Healthcare cost are killing people and it needs addressed by Trump and Republicans soon. HC is the #1 issue with 2020 voters.

My wife and I are both age 58. Our health insurance premium is $1900 a month with $8000 deductible each.


30 posted on 02/19/2020 3:42:05 PM PST by setter
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To: MAGAthon

The Local media has been trying to downplay this since early this morning. I love the downcast looks and words used especially when they of course had to pan to the “protesters”, at best 20 of them as the media here is infected by the Hollywood virus and playing to the “Millenial Mob”

Not the state I grew up in, but then neither is California the state I was born in

MAGA!

Sic Semper Tyrranis!!


31 posted on 02/19/2020 3:56:04 PM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

This is tidey bowl back up


32 posted on 02/19/2020 3:58:58 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Maybe, but when I heard Epstein’s hyoid bone was broken, I didn’t think he killed himself.


33 posted on 02/19/2020 4:02:03 PM PST by Stepan12 (potusm)
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To: setter

[The democrat party (Sanders/Warren) left them but they don’t like Trump. They would vote Bloomburg or Hillary or maybe a Klobuchar.]


Here’s to hoping that Sanders wins outright, before the convention.


[This is going to be a incredibly close election. Trump does not have it in the bag. Over 50% of the country are now the takers. Healthcare cost are killing people and it needs addressed by Trump and Republicans soon. HC is the #1 issue with 2020 voters.

My wife and I are both age 58. Our health insurance premium is $1900 a month with $8000 deductible each.]


Re health care costs, I suspect it’s just a matter of time before we go the single-payer route. The problem is the increasing pervasiveness of the gig economy, combined with stagnant wages for middle-income folks. That means contract workers are getting killed on health care expenses, which aren’t subsidized by a traditional FT employee benefits package.

We could probably fix this by abolishing the antitrust exemption (i.e. the monopsony power) for health insurance companies (i.e. preventing them from getting discounts on drugs and medical services over cash payers). But outlawing price discrimination would probably shut down the health insurance companies. Which means existing beneficiaries would scream bloody murder.

Which brings us back to single-payer. Drug company employees and workers in the health care sector are gonna take hefty cuts to their compensation. I gotta wonder how it will play out in the end. Are trial lawyers finally gonna take a hit because tort liability for medical malpractice and drug side-effects are finally capped by constitutional amendment?


34 posted on 02/19/2020 4:02:04 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

That Blue Wave must be the advertisement on the side of the Greyhound buses, bringing all those illegal voters to the big cities so the Left can claim the popular vote.


35 posted on 02/19/2020 4:14:02 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: setter

“The white, college educated, urban and suburban voters are not voting Trump.”

that’s odd, because pretty much ALL of my urban and suburban college educated friends are voting for Trump, including myself ...


36 posted on 02/19/2020 4:19:27 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: setter

“The white, college educated, urban and suburban voters are not voting Trump.”

no doubt they’re all chomping at the bit to either vote for an avowed communist who’s promised to massively raise their taxes and cancel their health insurance or an autocratic, sociopathic oligarch who promises to kill them when they get old and sick ...


37 posted on 02/19/2020 4:25:23 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Online Poll on this topic? How many types of bias?


38 posted on 02/19/2020 4:35:09 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: setter

You cant swing a dead cat without seeing a Trump bumper sticker here in so fl


39 posted on 02/19/2020 4:42:19 PM PST by italianquaker
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Blue wave - does it look like the blue wave in a toilet that uses the blue disinfectant....pretty blue waves with every flush...


40 posted on 02/20/2020 4:01:33 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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