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Why Democrats in Western Pennsylvania Are Voting Trump
The Atlantic ^ | September 13, 2016 | Salena Zito

Posted on 09/13/2016 1:02:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

CHARLEROI, Pa.—Angela LeJohn is 49, has worked at a local energy company for nine years, and loves it. A registered Democrat, she never once voted for a Republican and never expected to entertain such a thought—not even in a local election—until this year.

“The short of it is that I am looking at this election through self-preservation,” she explained. “I love my job, I love that I only live three miles from work, I love that who I work for contributes to a stable life, and I love that my community is holding on because of the trickle effect Lee Supply Company’s impact has on the region.”

LeJohn will vote for Donald Trump for president and for incumbent U.S. Senator Pat Toomey in November, she candidly admits, not because she loves either Republican candidate but because “they have my back.”(continued)

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


TOPICS: Pennsylvania; Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016swingstates; coal; democrats; demsfortrump; hillary; pa2016; pennsylvania; trump
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1 posted on 09/13/2016 1:02:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think these folk aren’t being captured in the polls.


2 posted on 09/13/2016 1:03:36 PM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s hope it’s contagious!


3 posted on 09/13/2016 1:04:15 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reagan Democrats

they THINK they are supposed to be democrats, because their family always was.

I used to be democrat because I thought my father was - I had no reason why, until I first listened to Rush Limbaugh.


4 posted on 09/13/2016 1:05:43 PM 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: Gamecock

WHY CANT I GET A @#$@#$ING POLL ON NY!!!!????

NJ is 4 down. If we’re under 10, it’s possible!!!


5 posted on 09/13/2016 1:06:52 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because they’re sick and tired of being sold down the river?


6 posted on 09/13/2016 1:07:39 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
ROTRB....

Revenge of the Rust Belt...

7 posted on 09/13/2016 1:09:46 PM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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To: Salena Zito

Good article from Salena Zito!!

Yes, there is something happening here.....

Hillary and friends are starting to panic!

They have Obama campaigning for her in PA today......


8 posted on 09/13/2016 1:14:21 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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If we win PA, it’s GAME OVER for Hillary!


9 posted on 09/13/2016 1:14:35 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: Mr. K
I used to be democrat because I thought my father was - I had no reason why, until I first listened to Rush Limbaugh.

I was kind of the same way. I used to vote democrat. A buddy asked "why are you voting democrat? You don't believe any of the stuff they believe. You're really a republican". He was right. That was in 1992. By 1994, I was enthusiastically voting for the republican Contract With America.

10 posted on 09/13/2016 1:15:26 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Gamecock
It's not just democrats from Western PA who are planning to vote for Donald Trump, it's democrats from all over America. Hardcore liberals will hold their nose and vote for Hilarity Clinton but many working class democrats will not.
11 posted on 09/13/2016 1:15:53 PM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: Gamecock

Its been a while since I saw the internals but last poll that showed internals including those who refused to identify who they planned to vote for, about 17% of those claiming to be republican refused to say and about 10% of Democrats...

My guess is Trump will get most of both those groups and that’ equates to roughly 4-6% of the vote.


12 posted on 09/13/2016 1:17:56 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is in Philadelphia today and Biden was in Philadelphia on Sunday. Someone is getting very nervous about the election.


13 posted on 09/13/2016 1:18:16 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: peeps36

Rust belt states in particular are going to find D’s voting for him.... They have been getting clobbered for decades by these crazy “free trade” deals.... working at walmart or target or home depot barely making ends meet when before they were working in factories that were closed....

I think Trump takes the Rust Belt big.


14 posted on 09/13/2016 1:19:33 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Kid Shelleen

Obama and Biden can beg, but Black America is not coming to Hillary’s rescue this election.


15 posted on 09/13/2016 1:21:53 PM PDT by IVAXMAN
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To: Gamecock

“I think these folk aren’t being captured in the polls.”

Toward the end of the article, a political guy who studies polls basically said that. People who haven’t voted before aren’t being polled. Hehehe... Big-league (bigly?) surprise on Nov. 8.


16 posted on 09/13/2016 1:23:57 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a vile woman . . . thought all the libs reading this story.


17 posted on 09/13/2016 1:30:23 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If it wasn’t for the Marcellus boom in W PA this area would be a disaster zone.


18 posted on 09/13/2016 1:30:36 PM PDT by IC Ken
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

remember w.’s whiskey rebllion and here we are today...do it again right this time...all the way,,,last chance and lucky to get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


19 posted on 09/13/2016 1:35:02 PM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Must be some of those coal folks


20 posted on 09/13/2016 1:42:44 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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