Posted on 11/03/2018 8:03:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
For many voters in America’s affluent suburbs, a flourishing economy is forcing a thorny dilemma for the midterm elections.
Do they vote Democratic, in part to protest President Donald Trump for behavior some see as divisive and unpresidential? Or do they back Republicans in hopes that the economy will continue thriving under the majority party?
A healthy economy has at least complicated their decision and blurred the outcome of the midterm elections . On Friday, the government reported that employers added a robust 250,000 jobs in October. And the unemployment rate stayed at a five-decade low of 3.7 percent. […]
The ambivalence of many voters is evident in the Philadelphia suburbs of Bucks and Chester counties. The landscape of rolling hills is dotted by shopping plazas and luxury car dealerships, by fieldstone and stucco houses that fill cul-de-sacs. Residents are likelier than the country as a whole to have college degrees, and the median family income is about $100,000.
“I’m not a fan of Donald Trump,” said 85-year-old Ross Kershey. “He doesn’t respect checks and balances. But he’s certainly done well for the economy.” A retired high school history teacher, Kershey is teaching a course on the Supreme Court at Immaculata University in Malvern, a suburb of Philadelphia. […]
Yet for all his antipathy toward the president, the strength of the economy is at least giving Kershey pause: “I’ll probably vote Democratic, but I’m not sure yet.” …
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Yes. Another walking back article.
Some pretty devastating claims there....
Dirty hypocrites. It was “It’s the economy, stupid” to explain why people won’t vote for Bush.
Now the economy is roaring and the Dems and media say “not a factor.”
Hate for Trump rules them. They cannot connect the dots.
They don’t give a damn about what’s good for the country.
Some Dems say they want to fix the economy....HUH
Yes, let’s flush the vibrant economy so we can all feel better. Typical liberal nonsense.
Trump beat Stinky Hillary, and the National (Dem) pout is not over yet...doubt it’ll ever be.
Please see my tagline.
The democRATS new motto:
It ISN’T the economy, stupid!
amazing that AP admits that Dems are bad for the economy ...
Oh, shut up.
Do they vote Democratic, in part to protest President Donald Trump for behavior some see as divisive and unpresidential? Or do they back Republicans in hopes that the economy will continue thriving under the majority party?
And I read the article twice. Did they actually profile a single Trump voter who said they would be voting for Democrats in the midterms? I couldn't find one.
Yeah, the poor Koch brothers face the same dilemma. They love cheap labor from Central America and China, but they like tax cuts too. Surely there’s a way to both sellout the working class and get our tax cuts too.
Yeah....They want to “fix” the economy so it is so damn bad, the people will have to rely on the “benevolent” democrats to help them...
Yeah, that’s a real pickle. Do I vote to keep the economy roaring and my life going great? Or do I vote on the narrow interests of letting in people who have never seen a toilet, and the people who don’t know which toilet to use? That’s a real brain teaser!
Question for those who are concerned about acting presidential. Are the media and Democrats and the millions withbcrazy rhetoric online treating him in a presidential manner? It’s a two way street, or is he just supposed to take it?
Kershey is teaching a course on the Supreme Court ...
Wow, I honestly cannot fathom how people “think.” It’s like a replay of 2008 and 2012 only in reverse. In ‘08, people swooning their opportunity to vote for the first-ever mulatto POTUS while totally ignoring who and what he really was. They were guiled and fooled by the press non-stop fawning and gushing into believing he was a good man.
Here we are with the non-stop “HATE TRUMP” bleating by the press for three long years and people have a hard time finding something good in him. Instead, we now have brain-dead simpletons uttering reflexive things like “he is divisive and unpresidential” and “he “doesn’t respect checks and balances.”
When you pin these dolts down to find specifics, they always come up empty-handed. You can ask them “What has Obama accomplished that makes you want to vote for him?” or “What has Trump done that is so bad you will vote D?” Either way, they cannot name specifics. Pure brainwashing.
The only thing worse than these people is the brain-dead people who write these pablum articles.
It’s about time the LSM are called out for not acting like Professional Reporters and Journalists and for inciting division and violins..
So hard to keep up with those rascal Dems.
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