Some PA midstaters have been called "dumb Dutchmen" but they are smart enough to recognize Romney and his ilk as Øbama-lite.
This time there was no reason to stay home.
No, it wasn’t “democrat-lite” ... again these MYTHS have to end...
The mid west isn’t hard to understand, yet so many people just don’t get it.. because they buy into cliche’s they have been fed, or are just blind.
Simply put, NO STATE.. NONE... is as politically simple as TV pundits like to portray them as... but they are largely ignorant idiots themselves who have no on the ground experience of any consequence in the states so they just spout off garbage...
Folks didn’t not vote for Romney because he was Democrat light.. they Didn’t vote for him, or any other republican or democrat because NEITHER party gave them a reason too... They are registered Democrats for historical reasons... Unions, jobs, history, not because they agree with the direction the Democratic party has been heading for the last 20 or 40 years...
Those folks aren’t going to just start voting Republican because Democrats have decided your daughter should have to allow a boy into the girls locker room... They won’t like it, and nto agree with it, but that isn’t going to get them switch parties... what they will do, is just stay home... and disengage.
On the things that matter, that would get them to think of switching, there was little difference between R and D.. both were backed by big money who want open borders and “free trade”... so, they just consign themselves to ef the system... nowhere for them to go.
Trump FINALLY offered them a real REASON to give R’s a chance... and a real PLATFORM that they could get behind... If republicans don’t blow it, the midwest will be as reliably red as the south in a few cycles.
It had NOTHING to do with R’s just being D light.. it had to do with R’s not giving the old school D’s here a reason to change....
Except the Pennsylvania "Dutch" are actually German...(Deutsche)...Now who's dumb?