Posted on 09/10/2016 8:09:16 AM PDT by Hojczyk
It's as if people here have not turned on the television to hear pundits drone on and on about how badly Trump is losing in Pennsylvania.
It's not just visual: In interview after interview in all corners of the state, I've found that Trump's support across the ideological spectrum remains strong. Democrats, Republicans, independents, people who have not voted in presidential elections for years — they have not wavered in their support.
Two components of these voters' answers and profiles remain consistent: They are middle-class, and they do not live in a big city. They are suburban to rural and are not poor — an element I found fascinating, until a Gallup survey last week confirmed that what I've gathered in interviews is more than just freakishly anecdotal.
The Gallup analysis, based on 87,000 interviews over the past year, shows that while economic anxiety and Trump's appeal are intertwined, his supporters for the most part do not make less than average Americans (not those in New York City or Washington, perhaps, but their Main Street peers) and are less likely to be unemployed.
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So now it is deplorable to want to keep the rule of law and our country?
Author y Salena Zito
August 21, 2016
Maybe Hillary should have read this
It’s as if people here have not turned on the television to hear pundits drone on and on about how badly Trump is losing in Pennsylvania.
It’s not just visual: In interview after interview in all corners of the state, I’ve found that Trump’s support across the ideological spectrum remains strong. Democrats, Republicans, independents, people who have not voted in presidential elections for years — they have not wavered in their support.
Two components of these voters’ answers and profiles remain consistent: They are middle-class, and they do not live in a big city. They are suburban to rural and are not poor — an element I found fascinating, until a Gallup survey last week confirmed that what I’ve gathered in interviews is more than just freakishly anecdotal.
The Gallup analysis, based on 87,000 interviews over the past year, shows that while economic anxiety and Trump’s appeal are intertwined, his supporters for the most part do not make less than average Americans (not those in New York City or Washington, perhaps, but their Main Street peers) and are less likely to be unemployed.
The study backs up what many of my interviews across the state found — that these people are more concerned about their children and grandchildren.
While Trump supporters here are overwhelmingly white, their support has little to do with race (yes, you’ll always find one or two who make race the issue) but has a lot to do with a perceived loss of power.
Not power in the way that Washington or Wall Street board rooms view power, but power in the sense that these people see a diminishing respect for them and their ways of life, their work ethic, their tendency to not be mobile (many live in the same eight square miles that their father’s father’s father lived in).
Thirty years ago, such people determined the country’s standards in entertainment, music, food, clothing, politics, personal values. Today, they are the people who are accused of creating every social injustice imaginable; when anything in society fails, they get blamed.
The places where they live lack economic opportunities for the next generation; they know their children and grandchildren will never experience the comfortable situations they had growing up — surrounded by family who lived next door, able to find a great job without going to college, both common traits among many successful small-business owners in the state.
These Trump supporters are not the kind you find on Twitter saying dumb or racist things; many of them don’t have the time or the patience to engage in social media because they are too busy working and living life in real time.
These are voters who are intellectually offended watching the Affordable Care Act crumble because they warned six years ago that it was an unworkable government overreach. They are the same people who wonder why President Obama has not taken a break from a week of golfing to address the devastating floods in Louisiana. (As one woman told me, “It appears as if he only makes statements during tragedies if there is political gain attached.”)
Voice such a remark, and you risk being labeled a racist in many parts of America.
The Joe-Six-Pack stereotype of a Trump supporter was not created in a vacuum; it’s real and it’s out there. Yet, if you dig down deep into the Gallup survey — or, better yet, take a drive 15 minutes outside of most cities in America — you will learn a different story.
That is, if you look and listen.
She showed the true Hillary…
Or if you are any of these: veteran, Christian, Jew, any non-Muslim, homeowner, successful outside of Wall St, moral, straight, monogamous, abstainer from drugs and alcohol, patriot,believer in borders, believer in law and order, etc.
Attacking them will bring over to your side , ya right
Desperation speaking in her deplorable comment. Its because none of the rules apply to Trump. He doesn’t fight fair—All of their tactics that worked so well on McCain, Dole and Mittens—do not work on Trump. The debates may well toss her down in the polls. America will see her clearly then—and I believe she will be toast.
So now it is deplorable to want to keep the rule of law and our country?
To liberals it is. To the liberals, we have to bend over backwards to prove we are not racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, you name it.
To the liberals, we are an inferior class of human beings. We are not educated enough, not sophisticated enough, not perceptive enough of the nuances of liberal policies, to appreciate the grandeur of a Barack Obama or a Hillary Clinton.
Yes!
Limited government....DEPLORABLE!
Free speech...........DEPLORABLE!
Freedom of religion...DEPLORABLE!
Right to defend yourself..DEPLORABLE!
I AM A DEPLORABLE!
Excellent!
Someone needs to make a graphic of that!
Trump’s campaign is fascinating. Starting with the visit to Mexico, Trump has made quite a few stops in places where hillary should’ve been. Did he force the “deplorable” blunder by pushing her out of her comfort zone? Surrounded by wealthy supporters, she let down her guard and let the world know what she thinks of us little folk.
Bank on this...folks. Trump will easily carry Texas, Florida, Ohio, & Pennsylvania. folks....if we just do our duty & job to get out and vot for Donald J. Trump...he will certainly become the next POYUS, come November 8, 2016!!! Go Trump/Pence...on to victory!!!!
Wow. I hope people in Trump’s campaign get to read this. Really insightful and explains why he’s gotten to this point. He’s found the lost America.
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