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Bill Clinton takes a nostalgia tour through working-class Ohio and finds a rash of Trump signs
Boston Globe ^ | Oct. 5, 2016 | By Annie Linskey

Posted on 10/05/2016 6:16:09 PM PDT by Innovative

Clinton took his legendary campaign skills on a tour this week through Mahoning Valley, hustling for small bunches of votes in tiny towns heavily populated with white Ohioans with relatively low levels of education and modest incomes.

In other words, in this election, Donald Trump country.

These are the voters Clinton won in 1992 and 1996, but who voted Republican in later years. As his bus rolled down two-lane roads and through towns with just a few stoplights but plenty of Trump signs, the trip was one part nostalgia tour, one part policy lecture, one part desperate bid to get his wife elected.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2016swingstates; clinton; election; oh2016; rustbelt; trump; x42
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To: Innovative

Was watching the local news today and they had some traffic accidents and such to report - in a couple of the shots there were Trump yard signs highly visible - in fact it looked like the camera man panned a couple on purpose to ensure they appeared on the screen.


41 posted on 10/06/2016 4:34:06 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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