Posted on 10/01/2018 8:29:41 AM PDT by 11th_VA
More than 70 percent of rural Americans and farmers say they would vote for Donald Trump for president again, according to a new poll from DTN/Progressive Farmer.
The poll surveyed 1,271 rural residents and farmers and has a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.
Farmers have been battered by President Trump's trade policies. The trade wars with China, Mexico and Canada have especially driven down the prices of soybeans and pork, two key agricultural exports for Minnesota.
Yet farmers, who believe China in particular must be forced to respect intellectual property rights and play fair with in international steel markets, have been patient with the president, and remain hopeful that he can secure better trade deals for American business in general.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
It’s gonna be higher after today... New Trade Deals will help middle American... and all of the United States.
You’re missing the point. You need to compare the 70% to how many actually voted for him in farmland. If he got 70% of the vote in that demo he hasn’t lost any support.
I think that all the poll says if that 70% of rural farmers would vote the same...the others would vote differently I assume
Of those that said they would vote differently, it doesn’t say if the voted for Trump in 2016 and wouldn’t now or if they voted for the evil beast and would vote for Trump now
https://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/marketing/higher-hog-prices-last
...Calculations by Lee Schulz at Iowa State University peg farrow to finish losses at $40.71 per head marketed during August.
That is down from a profit of $10.82 per head in July and the worst red ink since March 2013.
Schulz estimates the cost of production for August at $62.47 per hundredweight (carcass) or $46.86 per hundredweight (live)...
Fake poll, and fake news.
It is no longer possible to get an answer (let alone an honest one) from a portion of the population which has grow large enough to render polls of the remaining portion of the populace statistically meaningless.
The press, of course, has always lied.
But they used to have a ballpark estimate of how great their lies were.
Now they do not, because they cannot.
It must have burned the Red Star to print this.
100%!
That election is 2 years away. More important is getting those folks to the Ballot Box, this November.
This rural resident will, despite the Kavanaugh fumble. I knew we can’t vote our way out of this, but I and my family need more time to prepare for the inevitable war, so I’ll vote for more time.
This rural resident will, despite the Kavanaugh fumble.................
A fumble? Some nasty scrimmage but hardly a fumble. Pleas explain.
Easy to explain. Trump gave into the Demonrat (Flake) demand for a week delay. That gives the Demonrats time to regroup. That’s a fumble in my book. Judge Kav may still be confirmed, because the polling during the delay is breaking our way, but I don’t think Trump knew that that when he knuckled under to Demonrat demands.
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