Posted on 04/16/2016 12:12:22 AM PDT by GonzoII
BINGHAMTON, United States, April 16, 2016 (BSS/AFP) - What do a New York lawyer, a business owner who calls himself a left-leaning Republican and a construction worker who elected Barack Obama have in common? They're voting for Donald Trump.None of them live on the breadline. They share surprisingly varied opinions. Yet they are profoundly frustrated -- with the economy, with career politicians and with perceptions of declining American prestige.
The Republican frontrunner's supporters are often portrayed as undereducated, underearning whites.
But in upstate New York, where Trump calls himself "the most popular person that's ever lived," the breadth of support spotlights his enduring appeal, albeit as the Republican elites plot to bring him down. The most divisive presidential campaign in a generation hits New York on Tuesday.
"I don't think he's the Hitler everyone puts him out to be, I really truly don't and as a New Yorker I grew up with the guy," says Lloyd Knecht, 59, who owns a heating and air conditioning company that employs 30 people.
Knecht works in Binghamton, one of the fastest-shrinking towns in America and a pale imitation of an illustrious past where IBM was founded more than a century ago and where the flight simulator was invented.
The gradual departure of IBM and other manufacturing corporations, taking jobs and technology overseas, has left behind unemployment above the US average and a poverty rate higher than the state average.
Knecht worries about rising insurance and wage bills, though he believes in "some sort of national health plan." He fears the economy is becoming sluggish. He supported Obama's decriminalization of petty drug crimes.
Trump's populist message promising to bring back jobs and restore national pride with his say-it-how-it-is manner strike a deep chord...
(Excerpt) Read more at bssnews.net ...
NYC/Binghamton/Albany/Syracuse/Ithaca and the close in NYC burbs will vote Hillary at least in the primaries. Most likely in the general too and those areas carry the state.
“...upstate is suffering...”
At least consider voting for Trump in the primary. He is pro fracking and manufacturing. Cruz is clueless as to how to help upstate New York State bring back its jobs.
My son in law and daughter from Otsego county will vote Trump for this reason, meaning I have ‘skin in the game” to venture this suggestion. It is painful to see the abject poverty that abounds in rural Otsego county and the welfare state that has ruined upstate towns and turned them into Section 8 housing warehouses.
The conditions are dirt poor appalachia in some areas. (Not my daughter and son personally; she is a nurse and they have a small organic milk diary farm so they get by but their friends and relatives are struggling and desperate for JOBS) People WANT to work and I truly believe that Trump is the one to actually reinstate favorable trade and manufacturing regulations to Make America Great Again!
Exactly - see my post #22. Forget the democrats; they have ruined upstate and will continue if allowed. Cruz will have no clue either.
NYC/Binghamton/Albany.Syracuse/Ithaca and the close in NYC burbs will vote Hillary ...”
Not necessarily this time around. Sanders drew 3,000 to his event in Albany last week and Trump drew 17,000 plus. Ithaca’s hippie valley will want Sanders and will be mad if he gets shut out.
As the article says, upstate and certain of the outer NYC boroughs have lived out how the democrats have ruined the state and are actually waking up to vote differently this time around. Rochester held a massive Trump rally.
Upstate is struggling so badly that people are ready to try to do something about it.
There WILL be MANY crossover votes for Trump from independents and Dems in upstate and the outer boroughs this time around. Hillary is NOT liked.
The conventional wisdom that democrats will carry New York State will not hold true in this election cycle.
Inevitable headline: “Swingers for Trump!”
And cuHomo won't let the southern tier produce natural gas. Those folks want to secede to PA
The Republican frontrunner's supporters are often portrayed as undereducated, underearning whites.
I have a double bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS) and Business Administration. I am far from what would be considered "underearning" and according to the IRS Tax tables and Kiplingers, I'm in the top 7% of all wage earners.
In the circle of people I know, the overwhelming majority are either Trump or Cruz, so there's a heavy, distinct anti GOP-E sentiment in my circle of influence. That won't bode well for the GOP if they steal the nomination away from both the front runners, especially Trump.
Trump puts NY State in play Cruz doesn’t, at this point in the election cycle a vote for Cruz is a vote for Hillary.
LOL, good post!
I agree with you 100%.
I have a similar degree, and worked for 20 years at a major global information company. I am STRONGLY for Trump.
Not so excited about Cruz. In my opinion he is simply more of the same, selling us out to the very same people, who everyone else has been selling us out for the entire last generation.
Trump gets it. Trump is the only one who gets it. That is why EVERYONE is against him.
Except the voters. They are very much for Trump.
“So it don’t matter how they vote, Trump, Cruz or even Jesus Christ won’t win a general election in NY..”
I think it’s too early to say that. You never know.
If Hillary wins, there are going to be a LOT of disaffected young voters who feel (and rightfully so) that the nomination has been taken away from their guy, Bernie. They’ll either stay home or vote for the other “outsider,” Trump (and I only put outsider in quotes because I don’t quite comprehend how a sitting Senator can be considered an outsider). Also, if Trump gets up and SMASHES Hillary in the debates (”Mrs. Clinton... I don’t understand why you’re even on this stage and not in prison...”) you never know what will happen to her popularity.
I spent a week in Buffalo. I can see why people leave. The people are nice, but it astonished me how often people thought I hated black people, flew the Confederate flag, etc. They were surprised I was visiting museums and art galleries and was conversant with culture. It got tiresome.
Very, very liberal and with a very narrow view of the world.
I have this strange vision that once democrats and independents cross over to vote, if we get the right man who actually unites people to make changes, they just might stick around the party
And now that the price has tumbled no new exploration is being done, the Uber-smarmy Prince Andrew did his political duty...
Trump is the ONLY guy who will treat hillary as an equal when the going gets rough, and has shown he will take the flak from the Wymyn for being “ mean” to the hideous hag by calling out her lies and incompetence and corruption
My wife's side of the family (uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins) live in the Buffalo area.
OMG those people are retarded. Anyone who's not a liberal pro-abortion/homosexuality is OK Catholic is a Nazi to them.
Here's the rub: my wife's family escaped Hitler twice during WW2. First leaving Germany, then being chased out of Hungary after half the men were conscripted into the German army.
Yikes, I'd think they'd know better.
Trump cannot turn this country around by himself
All he can do is try and change the tax and regulatory area business faces
I left NYS in 1980
It is all in who and what you governor and legislators do
Democrats just do not care what happens
But the unions and politicians drove business out of NYS
Very simple look at the verious states and see which ones work best
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