Posted on 12/26/2016 6:23:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald J. Trump won the white working-class vote over Hillary Clinton by a larger margin than any major-party nominee since World War II. Instead of this considerable achievement inspiring introspection, figures from the heights of journalism, entertainment, literature and the Clinton campaign continue to suggest that Mr. Trump won the presidency by appealing to the bigotry of his supporters. As Bill Clinton recently said, the one thing Mr. Trump knows “is how to get angry white men to vote for him.”
This stereotyping of Trump voters is not only illiberal, it falsely presumes Mr. Trump won because of his worst comments about women and minorities rather than despite them.
In fact, had those people who agreed that Mr. Trump lacked “a sense of decency” voted for Mrs. Clinton, she would have been elected the next president.
Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump equally won over party loyalists. Yet about one in five voters did not have a favorable view of either candidate. These voters overwhelmingly backed Mr. Trump. Exit polls demonstrated that if voters who disapproved of both candidates had divided evenly between them, Mrs. Clinton would have won...
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Trump won the people who did not like or trust either candidate. He also won a good chunk of the women who said his comments made them unhappy or angry. And he won independents. And over a million voters voted a straight democrat ticket but did not vote for her. 85 thousand in Michigan alone.
So, the real problem in this election is that people really did not like Hillary. Maybe because of her past lying and scandals. And maybe because all of the new lying and the new scandals. Either way she is repugnant to lot of voters. Even more repugnant than Trump.
Someone needs to take notes...save quotes, video clips and news articles about what The Left is saying about all blue-collar white men.
Come election time in 2018 and 2020 we need to remind the electorate what the vile Left was saying about them.
Racism is such a strong accusation that we really need to be careful how and when we use it. Instead, The Left spraying racism accusations like they were coming out of a machine gun.
The Liberals are vile, disgusting people.
Trump has to go after them. They will try to destroy him. They will destroy America unless we stand up and fight them.
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Bigotry “won” Hillary Clinton the popular vote.
Trump won because Hillary chose not to do her job. She had one and only one job and that was to ‘show up.” She chose not to and paid for it. All she had to do was at the minimum show some interest in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Again, she chose not to and paid for it.
The Slimes only got part of this right. They keep forgetting to tell the whole truth, and tell only the part that they think is fit to print. That means they can’t print the truth about Hillary, that she really doesn’t appeal to people, not because she was the first female candidate from a major party, but more that she doesn’t appeal to people because she is disingenuous and people see right through that crap. Hillary was a lousy candidate that ran a lousy campaign.
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