Democrats Admit Trump Is ‘On To Something’

The Daily Caller ^ | August 1, 2016 | James S. Robbins

[2ndDivisionVet]

Sorting through the Wikileaked Democratic National Committee emails I ran across an unexpected subject line: “Trump on to something.”

Indeed? The May 10, 2016 email was from DNC press secretary Mark Paustenbach to communications director Luis Miranda. Attached were the results of the May 10 Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll of battleground states Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The excerpted portion of the poll in the email read:

From Florida section: “Republicans’ weakness among minority voters is well known. But the reason this race is so close overall is Clinton’s historic weakness among white men. In Florida, she is getting just 25 percent from white men,” Brown said.

This is what Donald Trump is onto: white men have no reason at all to vote for Hillary.

This should not be a news flash to Democrats. Barack Obama only got 39 percent white voter support in 2012, and still won, even though white voters made up 72 percent of the electorate. This tracks with the mainstream media narrative that white voters, particularly white men, are being increasingly marginalized and the future belongs to voters of color.

But what this poll and others show is that perhaps the Democrats have taken the narrative a little too far. After all, 72 percent of the electorate is a significant portion. And while white voters may be “aging out,” older and proportionately whiter voters participate at significantly higher levels than youngsters, and are definitely not with Hillary.

The most recent (July 13) Quinnipiac poll tells the same story. In Pennsylvania, Trump leads Hillary among white men by 25 points. In Ohio he leads by 26. And in Florida Trump leads among white men by a commanding 37 percent.

This dynamic is not limited to men. Despite perennial rhetoric about the widening gender gap, when race is taken into consideration the gap mostly vanishes. In the aforementioned polls, Hillary only leads Donald Trump with white women in Ohio, by four points, 43/39. In Pennsylvania, Trump leads among white women by twelve percent, and in Florida by thirteen. This shows that the more significant gender gap is among men, and it works decidedly against Democrats.

The Clinton campaign is franticly trying to stem the bleeding. Bringing former Virginia governor Tim Kaine on the ticket was a transparent sop to middle class white men. Mrs. Clinton’s implausible flip-flop on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, which she previously said “sets the gold standard in trade agreements,” is an attempt to reach out to the white working class.

The shift is so jarring that Democrats are having a hard time getting their story straight. Virginia governor and Clinton consiglieri Terry McAuliffe flailed around for a few days trying to correct his completely believable statement that Hillary would just go ahead and approve TPP after the election. And former Pennsylvania Democratic governor Ed Rendell had to walk back a thoughtfully bipartisan comment that Donald Trump was “right on trade” with respect to TPP, clarifying that he meant to say Hillary Clinton was.

Will Democrats be able to convince working class whites to come back to the fold? First they will have to overcome their fundamental contempt for American values. On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) asserted that “white, non-college educated white males have voted … against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s.”

Shades of Barack Obama in 2008 declaiming people in the devastated rust belt whose “jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them” and who “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Eight years of Obama policies have not improved things for this group. They understand their economic interests. And now they are turning out for Donald Trump in droves. He’s on to something all right.

[Billthedrill]

But what this poll and others show is that perhaps the Democrats have taken the narrative a little too far.

Do tell. Hillary: "I'm going to talk only to white people about how to deal with racism."

The problem is getting all that white toothpaste back into the tube. I don't think it's possible.

[Robert DeLong]

I predict Trump will get bigger percentages in among other races as well, then did McCain or Romney.

[grobdriver]

And she's not black.

All those racist negroes won't be showing up to vote for her - she's whitey.

[RayChuang88]

How about the fact that Trump studied how the Obama campaigns of 2008 and 2012 effectively used social media and took the idea to the next level, while Hillary is still trying to run a 1990's style campaign?

[Behind the Blue Wall]

The Democrats are getting caught in a Catch-22 where they need to polarize the electorate along racial lines in order to reproduce the minority turnout that elected Obama, but in doing so, they are driving white voters Republican. If every single non-white votes Dem, and every white person votes Repub, guess who wins that?

[Ancesthntr]

Hey, Dems, these “old, dying male whites” usually have wives, and often have kids who vote in a similar manner.

I don’t know about anyone else here, but if my wife was anywhere near undecided about a candidate, and I was frothing at the mouth against someone, she wouldn’t vote for that someone. She’d know that there had to be a LOT of good reasons for that. That’s how family works.

So if the Witch of Chappaqua is opposed by 75% of white men in Florida, something north of 60% of white women are likely to feel the same way. Being 72% of the electorate, that’s almost a guaranteed loss for Hillary.

[LostPassword]

I’d like to hear a D name one thing the dems have done in the last decade aimed to help voters who match any of these demographics
* white
* male
* Christian
* straight

That includes many union voters. Ds claim many policies aimed at helping other demos also help these (e.g. obamacare, welfare help poor people in these groups). But they have completely ignored the interests of these groups and often act against these groups in favor of others.

They should not be able to get these votes, but so many white, male, Christians, straight voters think it’s the government’s job to take care of other groups at their/our expense. It’s even worse if you take away any one of those attributes (e.g. “white christian straight” - women, or “white male christian” - gay).

In theory, Rs want to help (not take care of) all groups by improving the economy and making it easier to run a business. But voters don’t believe them. Trump is making them believe.

[VRWC For Truth]

Kane is a faggot, he brings nutin.....

[Twinkie]

The damned Muslim Jihadist attacks are what have me
frustrated!!!!

The derned Jihadists sure as hell CLING to their guns,
their Korans and their RELIGION!!!