Posted on 03/10/2016 8:39:10 AM PST by Sybeck1
If Donald Trump wins the Republican Party nomination, his path to the White House will run through this working-class city with a knack for picking presidents.
No Republican has ever won the White House without Ohio. And nowhere better reflects the challenges and opportunities Trump faces in his 2016 presidential quest than Canton, a once-booming industrial city that, like Ohio and the rest of America’s rust belt, is going through profound economic and demographic change.
Canton, a gritty northeastern Ohio city where the once-dominant steel industry has been in decline for 20 years, is the heart of Stark County, a political bellwether that, save twice, has picked every winning presidential candidate since 1964.
The real-estate mogul’s primary wins in Michigan and in Mississippi on Tuesday, in the face of blistering attacks from the party's establishment, expanded his lead in the White House nominating race and demonstrated his broad appeal across many demographic groups in the Republican Party.
But here, in predominately white Canton, the birthplace of professional American football, he will need to show cross-over appeal in the general election and win over not just Republicans but working-class Democrats and some independents, to beat a Democrat, illustrating the challenge he will face in Ohio and potentially other Midwestern “rust belt” states.
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One Democrat that Rush took a liking to was Rep. Jim Traficant. He was known for going off the reservation enough that he irritated the honchos in the party. He eventually went to jail for some misuse of funds. He was one of those Ohio blue collar Democrat types.
It turns out that Ohio allows crossover voting.
According to the following article, there was a significant amount of Crossover voting during Operation Chaos in 2008:
http://www.wired.com/2008/03/did-ohio-crosso/
and as reported a few days ago, over 1,000 Democrats had changed their registration to Republican so they can vote for Trump in the closed primary. And that was just in the county where Youngstown is located.
An idiot relative who is damned near a Bernie Sanders Socialist and has his head so far up the Unions hind end he can see jimmy Hoffa’s tonsils likes Trump.
He thinks that After Bernie gets kicked out of the DNC and Trump gets removed via broken convention that those two will team up and run third party as a Trump / Sanders ticket....
Spread the word....Portman attended the stop-Trump-at-any-costs "secret" meeting. With him involved in the attempt to defraud the will of the voters, it should make voters more likely to cast their vote for Trump rather than cede it to manipulation by the establishment.
Of course, the winos, druggies and other slackers who are NOT working STILL love BO.
This Ohio girl is not surprised. Ohio has a lot of blue collar voters who are Republican. Trump will attract many of them because they do not like Kasich due to the Senate Bill 5, aka Issue 2 fiasco from 2011. Police, firefighter and teacher union voters are still angry at Kasich over it.
The Reagan Democrats, blue-collar Americans, made Reagan president. If it weren’t for them he wouldn’t have had the votes. I suspect the same is true for Trump. I see the blue-collars liking Trump just as they liked Reagan.
I know a few blue-collar Democrats, and they do not trust Cruz or Rubio in the slightest.
Ohio Ping
Interesting map and comment about winning Ohio’s urban votes from the other thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3407384/posts?page=31#31
They don’t expect any change from open borders Clinton.
They don’t like Kasich because they don’t think he can win.
They like Trump because he CAN win and he is NOT open borders.
Well you have to wonder if back in 1980 did Reagan win those votes because he was a conservative or because the Blue collar DEMS saw a strong man who could help with where they were in life.
Yep, Trump forming the Regan coalition. GO TRUMP GO
We don’t want any stinking Conservative Democrats in our party!
How dare they leave the plantation! Don’t they know what’s good for them?!?!?!?!?!?.....................INGRATES!>..............................
Thios is where cruz is losing the campaign and election.
He thought he could have the base in the south for his firewall and that never happened.
He thought he would get mostly evangelicals and that did not happen.
He think he can win in a general because republicans will vote for him , even if he called Trump voters low information voters and insulted them
He does not get that you cannot win an election without non party voters and blue color Dem of the working class.
If cruz and the establishment gets what they want and gets their contested then those non party and blue color are not going to vote for him and we lose the election to Clinton.
No way that happens. Can you imagine the White House smelling like Bengay and soiled Depends with Bernie around?
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The working blue collars lost the most - the lower taxes on the rich did help raise everyone's money but when globalization happened the rich no longer had to invest their money at home. The factory jobs that would have opened from "supply side aka trickle down economics" did not happen in the USA but happened in Mexico and China, etc.
So when Republicans defend trickle down - they do so at the same time they defend free trade globalization and are too blind to realize that this no longer applies to American workers of a certain economic class.
I pray that Ohio will do the right thing and vote for Trump. Io think they voted for Obummer makes me concerned of something going wrong. Watch your ballots make sure your vote counts for the right person. This is our last chance to save our country. Trump 2016
I worry most about the Columbus area. Those involved with state gov have done very well with Kasich. Other local govs? We're starving.
bkmk
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