Posted on 05/17/2016 9:54:18 AM PDT by GonzoII
Fairfield, Connecticut, doesn’t look like the Donald Trump country you’re used to seeing. The stately homes in Greenfield Hill, with its two-acre zoning requirement, and the charming waterfront in Southport, with sailboats docked in the calm waters of Long Island Sound don’t gibe with the raucous rallies thrown by the Republican frontrunner.
But these wealthy Connecticut suburbs are as much hotbeds of Trump support as some coal-mining counties in Kentucky.
Statewide, Trump won the April 26 primary with 58% of the vote, including all but three cities in Fairfield County, home to some of the richest communities in America and a place that many expected would go for a more moderate candidate like Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has since dropped out.
“They normally go with an established, moderate candidate,” said James Millington, chairman of the Fairfield Republican Party. “But when the numbers came in on primary night, we saw something that we’ve never seen before.”
“We have a lot of corporate executives, highly educated people and very successful people in business, hedge funds and everything that make up our community in Fairfield, and people that I spoke to thought that they would probably break to Kasich,” he added. “And they clearly did not.”
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Obama’s plan to bring Section 8 to their neighborhood not proving to be very popular, eh?
All walks of life can identify with him.
All walks of life can identify with him.
Good point. Contrast with Hillary Clinton. How many people from which walks of life, really identify with Hillary Clinton???
Trump talks WITH the people and LISTENS to their responses. With Trump, people get the connection, one on one.
“How many people from which walks of life, really identify with Hillary Clinton???”
Many of those who identify with her are motivated by resentment and hatred of other groups. This has been a mainstay of democrat divide and conquer politics, but eventually some of those who aren’t motivated by this resentment and hatred will split off - which is what I personally think is happening at this point.
It’s ironic that the left accuse Trump, or anyone else from outside their own ranks, of intolerance and hatred.
Guess not a lot of Fairfield listens to El Rushbo or the Glenn Beck Insanity Hour.
‘Listening to people’ is something democrats push because it's feminine/manipulative - a tactic that allows someone like Hillary to give the illusion of understanding and compassion when in fact she doesn't give a damn.
It's embarrassing to admit that you're going to vote for him, but you just don't admit it.
>>>> .... think that he tapped into economic anxieties that even the well-to-do share.
BINGO! Well-to-do today doesn’t mean a thing if Obama/Hillary is allowed to continue to wreck the country.
In this election, two top priorities amongst voters mind -
- National security (including legal immigration and illegal invasion)
- Economy (including job creation)
So far Trump talked to people directly on these two issues, while Cruz may have a good plan but he doesn’t ‘reach’ people.
As for Hillary’s promise that she will install 500,000 solar panels by the end of her first term (failed Obama job creation ==> more grafting for his cronies) pffffff
Even the economically successful see that there are things wrong with the country.
Maybe now that they have made it, they want to keep it.
Old divorced ladies on Social Security love her. Really, that's about it.
It would seem that trump’s wide base would matter at least as much - Oregon becomes his tonight.....and Washington follows next Tuesday
A bastion of conservatism among socialists.
Hillary reminds older men of their ex wives and younger men and many women of their mother in law.
The only group of women who are guaranteed to vote for her are the hard core feminazis (Abortion is a holy right to them)
Americans, whether they understand the source of their problems or not, do not like globalism.
Fairfield CT just lost a MAJOR employer as General Electric moved their American headquarters to Boston.
People in CT are pissed and have come to realize that these high taxes are killing them.
A major surprise in this election, Trump wins both PA and CT.
True, that includes urban Bridgeport voters, but 3 of the 5 towns Kasich carried were in Fairfield.
In her primary, Clinton did better in Fairfield's rich suburbs than in other parts of the state.
She got a higher percentage of the vote in Greenwich, Darien, and New Canaan than in Bridgeport or New Haven (of course they were voting against a declared socialist, but still ...)
Certainly, the whole country won't go the way of Connecticut in November, but once you get over some people's surprise that Trump has any voters at all in upscale suburbs, there may be less to this story than meets the eye.
These people know they’re next. Seeing the ObamaCare tax line on their 1040s probably helped; every worker knows the goal of Obama is to reduce them to the level of those who couldn’t be bothered to work...
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