Posted on 04/28/2016 12:30:08 PM PDT by VA Voter
Not only is Donald Trump likely to gather the most votes of any GOP Presidential nominee ever, having swept the East Coast and crushed the anti-Trump alliance between Kasich and Cruz even before it made the news cycle; but now, as Reuters reports, the GOP establishment faces an ever bigger problem. Wealthy, well-educated voters helped carry the Republican front-runner to victory this week - a demographic the famously blunt-spoken billionaire had struggled to attract in the past.
As we noted previously, with a number of states remaining including California, Trump is set to surpass current record holder George W. Bush, who received 10.8 million votes in 2000.
And, as Reuters reports, it's not just "angry blue collar white men"...
Trump's sweep of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island on Tuesday included wins in some of the richest and best-educated counties in the country - like Fairfield County, Connecticut, and Newport County, Rhode Island - and added to victories in his more traditional strongholds of white working-class neighborhoods.
Exit polls from Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland showed Trump winning about half of Republican voters with college degrees, and over half of Republican voters making more than $100,000 a year.
“On its face, it is hard to believe he’d be improving with a demographic group that has been so averse to his style, his denigrating language,” said Randall Miller, a professor of American politics at Saint Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania.
“But I think people may have gotten used to Trump, he’s not as outrageous as he used to be,” he said, adding that familiarity with the businessman's brand in the Northeast may also have helped him.
But with Trump far ahead of his rivals, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Governor John Kasich, in the race for the presidential nomination, Miller said Republican voters of all stripes may become more resigned to voting for Trump.
"I think it is possible he replicates this."
Trump has historically done well in areas where the collapse of important local industries has put stress on working families - propelling his popularity among poorer white voters drawn to his rhetoric about inept government and failed international trade deals.
A Franklin and Marshall College voter survey released last week showed Trump's message of disaffection had sunk in across the state. Just under 40 percent of voters cited "government, politicians" as the most important problem facing Pennsylvania, with "unemployment, personal finances” ranked a distant second at 14 percent.
In the affluent Maryland suburbs of Montgomery and Howard counties, where more than 60 percent of whites hold college degrees, Trump claimed a smaller 40 percent share of the Republican vote. It was still enough for a first-place finish over Cruz and Kasich.
Fred Stubbs, 72, a retired accountant from Potomac, Maryland, said he voted for Trump on Tuesday because he believed the real estate mogul would improve the country's standing in the world.
As Trump said aftewr "the sweep" - "as far as I'm concerned, it's over"
Yeah, if the only people you talk to are those who make their money off the Government, either directly or indirectly.
Simple explanation:
There have not been debates every week where Trump showed himself to be dismissive, insulting etc...and people’s attitudes change when that isn’t in their face.
Absent widespread horse sh*t, Trump is gonna be the next president.
But there’s a lotta horse sh*t in Washington.
yeah...I thought only poor stupid people voted for Trump. Funny thing is that these “smart” people actually believed that BS, (their own) up until last Tuesday. And they’re still trying to tell others what to think.
And Trump is probably just as much a Conservative as GWB.
The status quo has gotten so intolerable that the makers are seeing anything different as an improvement.
Media is sooooo stupid...and we have to listen to it.
What those stupid mediocrities can’t comprehend is that we are way ahead of them —not behind them.
“Who are you talking to at 3:00a in the morning?”
- “The GOPe.”
“Gimme that, who is this “,”GOPe”,” ?”
“She sounds hideous”
- “Well she’s the Establishment, so...”
The Establishment thinks we are all ignoran fools. However, I could go to the nearest auto mechanic and ask him if he would invest 100 million IN Jeb Bush and he might ACTUALLY die of laughter.
even wealthy well educated voters are finally responding to the compelling future of America becoming a libtard hellhole that needs to be saved by Trump now
Yup. He isn’t a Conservative. He isn’t a Liberal.
He’s a sledgehammer.
Most of the people in this country presently staring down at their phones need a sledgehammer to finally get their freaking attention.
That is unexpected!
Who would have guessed that those who are wealthy enough to have something to lose and educated enough to know what’s going on would support Trump? It’s almost like they want to make America great again, or something like that. What does Trump have that Bernie and Hillary don’t have (other than patriotism, common sense, and an understanding of economics)?
I would even vote for the young black kid that helped me move because even he thinks all existing politicians lie like a rug...
“”It’s Hard To Believe” - Establishment Stunned As Trump Gains ‘Wealthy, Well-Educated’ Voters”
to my reasoning, Trump was never with out them from the get-go.
glad if more are finally admitting it publicly or by poll, though some of the liberal wealthy well educated are too far over the edge to be brought to sanity at this time.
Something else that’s going on is that well educated, wealthy east coast voters who are diehard liberals on social issues — abortion and gays — are so strident and obnoxious about these issues that they assume every other well educated east coaster agrees 100% with them - and these die-hard social liberals are flabbergasted to discover there are neighbors and coworkers who don’t share their obsession with killing babies and letting men marry men. I work on Wall Street and find that pro-abortion and pro-gay people shout their viewpoints from the rooftops, and it doesn’t occur to them that the rest of us don’t agree with them. They even remark about the “religious nuts†who are “anti-choice†and “blue collar people†who “hate gaysâ€. Well, the rest of us on Wall Street range from hardcore right-to-life and pro-traditional marriage to wishy-washy on these issues...but we are on our own in the voting booth! Hence...it turns out that well educated, wealthy people in the Northeast are not all as rabidly liberal on social issues as everyone assumes we are. Perhaps there will be even bigger surprises in store for the Dems in November...
I’m well educated, and I’ve been living as a poor person since Obama happened and most of the work went away-the stupid media apparently doesn’t realize that a whole box of degrees and 100 years of experience won’t help anyone get rich when there’s almost no customers/work-and I’m not the only well-educated person Obama economics brought into lower class living-hell, yes we’re going to vote for someone who can give us a chance to have more work, money and a decent life again...
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