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Trump’s Nationalism Is Breaking Point for Some Suburban Voters, Risking G.O.P. Coalition
The New York Slimes ^
| 01 NOV 2018
| Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns
Posted on 11/01/2018 11:04:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
HOUSTON J. Mark Metts, a 60-year-old partner at one of this citys prestigious law firms, had never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate until 2016. Now he and some of his neighbors in the moneyed River Oaks enclave of Houston are about to oppose a Republican once again, to register their disapproval of President Trump.
With Congress not really standing up to Trump, this election is becoming a referendum, Mr. Metts said, explaining why he would no longer support the re-election of Representative John Culberson, an eight-term Republican.
Mr. Culberson is now running roughly even with the Democratic candidate, Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll last week an extraordinary development in a district that has not elected a Democrat since before an oilman named George H.W. Bush won here in 1966, and one that illustrates how difficult Mr. Trump has made it for his party to retain control of the House.
If the 2016 election hinged in large part on a rightward shift among working-class whites who deserted Democrats in the presidential race, Tuesdays House election may turn on an equally significant and opposite force: a generational break with Republicanism among educated, wealthier whites especially women who generally like the partys pro-business policies but recoil from strident, divisive language on race and gender.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Stopped reading when I saw “New York Slimes.”
To: RayChuang88
The morons don’t understand the difference between a Nationalist and white nationalism.
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posted on
11/01/2018 11:57:45 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Culberson's opponent, a Hillary clone
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Where do they find these buffoons?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: Captain Compassion
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posted on
11/01/2018 12:10:06 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
To: datricker
“Have you had the pizza?”
Yes.
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posted on
11/01/2018 12:14:34 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: Boogieman
“Well, NYC did give us Trump.”
I’ll give you that. Otherwise it’s a seething cauldron of anti- Americanism and hatred. The incubator of Marxism and more than half full of foreigners, perverts, criminals and other undesirables.
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posted on
11/01/2018 12:17:11 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: Williams
"Yeah we sure don't want any presidents supporting the United States of America"You forgot the (/s).
BUMP
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posted on
11/01/2018 12:26:46 PM PDT
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't waiting. Do it today.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
A never Trumper is not voting for Trump supporters?
50
posted on
11/01/2018 12:41:45 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The continual stream of nonsense the Democrat media puts out seems meant only to insult our intelligence. The sad thing is that a lot of good trees lay down their lives daily for the Times and other ungrateful media outlets.
Barbaric waste of good wood.
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posted on
11/01/2018 12:41:49 PM PDT
by
Montana_Sam
(Truth lives.)
To: dead
Ha!
Your replies will be rejected
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posted on
11/01/2018 1:08:03 PM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If a GOPer is not an American, then good riddance to the stinking communist sympathizer...
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posted on
11/01/2018 1:28:32 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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