Posted on 08/23/2015 9:05:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump clearly prides himself in shunning focus-group research. He refuses big campaign donations that he asserts make his opponents beholden to special interests. He seems to target no specific constituency.
Many pollsters remain puzzled by Trump’s political appeal. “Republican support for Donald Trump just continues to grow,” said Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth Polling after its August survey, “with no clear sense of who his constituency really is.”
Yet a constituency is emerging. Trump’s strongest supporters, roughly a quarter of Republican voters across the polls, are not dissuaded by any increased media scrutiny of their candidate. They have overlooked a series of faux pas that might have tanked other candidates.
It appears, however, to be a constituency with whom he has barely interacted: white working-class voters. Their lives are far from the flight path of Trump’s private jet, as he zooms from golf course to grand hotel lobby, television sound stage to penthouse suite...
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The race card.... agaaaaaaiiiin.....?
They don’t know what else to do. They criticize Trump for making it up as he goes along but they (the anti-Trump press bandwagon) do the same, make it up as they go along. The difference is Trump has credibility with Americans from all walks of life; the press has virtually zilch.
I tell yuh. Donald Trump and rednecks.
They keep trying new things every day. Today it’s the race card. Stupid.
The fact that Trump is getting this much negativity from the ruling elites and MSM shows he’s the man to support.
Go, Trump, GO!!
[a constituency with whom he has barely interacted]
Roto Reuters dings Trump on being out of touch with his constituency, but we all know they will never dare say the same thing about hillary, who can barely stand the presence of anyone except for daughter chelsea and her beeyoch huma.
This Trump guy, he just don’t FIT in our boxes.
Yeah, therefore the world has gone mad.
Leni
The left both Democrat and Republican and the MSM and their pundits are scared poopless. They are so afraid that Trump just might win this thing, most of them are going to need an enema before this thing is over. Those Republican common taters on Fox more than most. Poor old George Will and Charles Krauthammer both look like their eyes are turning brown.
I now watch the panel on Special Report for the laughs.
For common sense, I watch Lou Dobbs.
Well for these opinion punks, they gotta write something. So it’s gotta be a nasty on Trump or a love letter about Jebba the Bush. There’s not a whole lot of options for these poor dumbasses. Oh, they can pump up the Fiorina from time to time, not much else.
White working class need GOOD jobs the most, because they are tired of part time jobs, sub-standard jobs and no jobs.
Rednecks care about working
Kraut looks like he was just given a HHH and can’t wait to go on the toilet. (HHH is a nurses slang, meaning Hot, High and Hell of a lot)
They’re like zoo monkeys with a flat beach ball: “How do we **** this thing?”
My neighbors on each side are for Trump and neighbor across the street is a lifelong Democrat, Union worker, and he and his wife are for Trump. I’ve talked to all three and they don’t care what the MSM says, they’ve picked their candidate. BTW, all three families don’t believe anything the media is trying to pull against Trump.
Maybe they should read Trump’s immigration plan:
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We’ve become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women’s plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
Nonexistent bedfellows: Reuters and the truth.
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