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At the Base of Trump's Support
Real Clear Politics ^ | August 21, 2016 | Salena Zito

Posted on 08/21/2016 1:32:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

RUFFSDALE -- If you drive anywhere in Pennsylvania, from the turnpike to the old U.S. routes to the dirt roads connecting small towns like Hooversville with “bigger” small towns like Somerset, you might conclude that Donald Trump is ahead in this state by double digits.

Large signs, small signs, homemade signs, signs that wrap around barns, signs that go from one end of a fence to another, all dot the landscape with such frequency that, if you were playing the old-fashioned road-trip game of counting cows, you would hit 100 in just one small town like this one.

In Ruffsdale, I am pretty sure I saw more than 100 Trump signs....

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


TOPICS: Pennsylvania; Campaign News; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2016swingstates; hillary; pa2016; pennsylvania; polls; rural; trump
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1 posted on 08/21/2016 1:32:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; bevperl; flat; unkus; SkyPilot; vette6387; HarleyLady27; Liz; NFHale; ...

The polls are bogus and designed to be as corrupt as those claiming the witch is ahead. Everyone I talk to is voting Trump and I talk politics all the time everywhere I go.

The MSM and political hacks still think We The People are too stupid to figure out their corruption and lies. No more. Thanks to the Trump campaign, their duplicity is being exposed.


2 posted on 08/21/2016 1:39:14 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Problem is Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Those are the voter fraud pits.


3 posted on 08/21/2016 1:39:30 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Clinton Machine, GOPe, MSM, and RAT’s can all Intercourse PA themselves after this election.


4 posted on 08/21/2016 1:40:17 PM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”)
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To: McGavin999

Pittsburgh too.

Pittsburg only has 808 people.


5 posted on 08/21/2016 1:40:57 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I remember back in 2012 by this time in my Western Suburban Chicago area (Downers Grove IL) I saw MANY political signs for both candidates. Today I see zero, zip nada, nothing! Not one sign or bumper sticker have I seen. If you ask why I will answer that I think people are scared to show who they actually support.


6 posted on 08/21/2016 1:41:37 PM PDT by teletech
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ahhhh yes the sophisticated city folk looking down on all others


7 posted on 08/21/2016 2:10:46 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: teletech

I would NEVER put a bumper sticker or a yard sign for TRUMP.....asking for trouble....just VOTE!


8 posted on 08/21/2016 2:11:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: teletech
Not one sign or bumper sticker have I seen. If you ask why I will answer that I think people are scared to show who they actually support.

Actually, I think it's because Trump voters are scared to display them out of fear of vandalism, and Hillary voters aren't really motivated enough to put up signs.

After all, nobody is stealing, vandalizing or destroying Hillary signs, are they? If there were any incidences of that at all, it would be front page and breaking news on every single Mainstream Media Outlet for days and days.

9 posted on 08/21/2016 2:13:13 PM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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To: Maceman
Actually, I think it's because Trump voters are scared to display them out of fear of vandalism, and Hillary voters aren't really motivated enough to put up signs.

Exactly my point. I would be willing to bet the Trump support is there BIGLY but as you say, people don't want to be vandalized.

10 posted on 08/21/2016 2:16:44 PM PDT by teletech
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To: teletech
Exactly my point. I would be willing to bet the Trump support is there BIGLY but as you say, people don't want to be vandalized.

Yes. But to me, the more fascinating question is why no Hillary signs?

11 posted on 08/21/2016 2:48:25 PM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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To: teletech

Howard Kutz on “Media Buzz” has two dem dingbats and a Carly dingbat talking about how “off message” Trump is and Kurtz is talking about Trump’s “disastrous” week compared to Clinton’s “Steady as she goes” week. This past week has been the greatest week of the Trump campaign but Fox joins with the rest of the media to call it disastrous.


12 posted on 08/21/2016 2:49:35 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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‘disastrous week’ ?? What on Earth??

These people - if they witnessed God Himself perform Creation in 6 days and rested on the 7th - they’d say ‘Why are you being lazy? The Elephant’s trunk is too long’.


13 posted on 08/21/2016 3:08:59 PM PDT by time4good
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And why those NeverTrumpers are nowhere to be found in these back lands (no disrespect), i.e., the heartland/backbones of this country.

Salena Zito (the author) needs to do an in-depth profile of Hillary voters and NeverTrumpers, too.


14 posted on 08/21/2016 4:17:56 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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Salena Zito (the author) needs to do an in-depth profile of Hillary voters and NeverTrumpers, too.

She probably will.

Salena Zito is one of the best in the business. She's a skilled interviewer and an insightful reporter. I she claims it, you can take it to the bank.

Not coincidentally, she hangs out at Free Republic.

15 posted on 08/21/2016 4:33:03 PM PDT by okie01
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To: NKP_Vet

Fox is part of the Ministry of Propaganda.
The Cheap Labor Express has ordered them to get Hillary elected.
Trump is a direct threat to the Cheap Labor Express.
They are not about to let the citizens reverse 30 years of bipatisan policy of non-enforcement of immigration laws.


16 posted on 08/21/2016 4:43:02 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Sir Napsalot

She’s a FReeper.


17 posted on 08/21/2016 4:52:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: McGavin999

Went to Cooperstown in 2014, could not believe all the anti-Cuomo signs I saw upstate. One square block of NYC probably had more Cuomo votes, however :(


18 posted on 08/21/2016 5:23:12 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: Sir Napsalot

Aren’t most NeverTrumpers in DC? Or close to DC (Virginia as in Levin)?


19 posted on 08/21/2016 6:08:36 PM PDT by georgiegirl
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To: georgiegirl

DC - NYC corridor, I heard.


20 posted on 08/21/2016 6:37:02 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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