Well, around here I am seeing more and more campaign signs popping up every day. Most of those are for Trump. I have seen only four Hillary signs, and only one Hillary bumper sticker. I’m surprised at neighbors who have a Trump sign in their yard who have never bothered with campaign signs. Also, I’m hearing that lots of folks are coming in to our Voter’s Registration office to change their party affiliation from dem to republican. We tend to be a “Purple” county as opposed to red or blue. We are also a college town and lots of liberal professors, so I’m thinking that, yes, at least in our county, Trump will win. Meanwhile, as buckalfa points out, Philly fraud is the problem.
Driving two hours in PA yesterday, I saw only two Clinton signs. Too many Trump signs to count.
FWIW, the Clinton signs were both on buildings for sale and one of the buildings was not a home, but the local Democrat headquarters. There, one of the signs in the window was fastened right over the for-sale sign:
CLINTON FOR SALE was the eye-catching effect.
“I don’t share David Plouffe’s supreme confidence that Pennsylvania is guaranteed to be blue,” Braddock Mayor John Fetterman and former candidate in the state’s Democratic primary for Senate this year, told The Washington Post. “Without a doubt, it is one that’s going to be close.”
This guys an interesting dude... he’s the mayor of a distressed town that collapsed after the steel left.. .and has never recovered, even though his town is located next to the last Active Steel Mill in the area. He’s a democrat, tried to run for Senate this year... lost the primary... but he’s boots on the ground.
I tell you I don’t think PA is going to be close and I don’t see it going Hillary.... I just don’t see any organic support for her ANYWHERE. She’ll get the folks who always vote D, but that’s it and there is no motivation or enthusiasm from anyone to vote for her even the most hard core democrats can’t offer a reason to vote for her.. they just cough out platitudes like “Hillary lies 25% of the time, Trump lies 100% of the time”
I just don’t see her carrying Philly with nearly enough margin to overwhelm the absolute insane enthusiasm for Trump that is obvious everywhere.
Time will tell, but I really don’t see Hillary taking PA. Her behaviors are repugnant to the working class blue collar dems. They see her as a criminal and a liar who gets ahead on their backs... I think you will see her lose PA and not by a slim margin.
Trump supporters are willing to crawl over glass to vote for Turmp, not only that, but they will happily let 2 more people ride on their backs if they know they will vote Trump to make sure they get to the polls.
There is absolutely ZERO enthusiasm for Hillary... I’ve never seen anything like this at all for a candidate for either party...
Could they? Yes. But it’s not going to be easy to accomplish.
The difference being this time that the Republican on the ticket is actually giving working-class Democrats a reason to cross over.
Never occurred to prior Republicans since Reagan did the same.