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Trump wins 60 percent approval in rural areas of key states
The Hill ^ | September 10, 2019 | Jonathan Easley

Posted on 09/10/2019 10:36:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Trump’s job approval rating in rural areas of the Rust Belt and Great Plains states is at 60 percent, markedly higher than his job approval rating nationally, according to a new poll commissioned by Democrats.

A Change Research survey sponsored by The American Federation of Teachers and One Country, a group with close ties to former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), found that 60 percent of voters from non-metro counties in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and West Virginia approve of the job Trump is doing.

All of those states voted for Trump in 2016 with the exception of Colorado and Minnesota. Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin went red in the 2016 election for the first time in decades and Democrats believe that rebuilding that “blue wall” represents their likeliest path back to the White House.

While Trump’s job approval rating among rural Democrats is only at 7 percent, he gets 97 percent support from rural Republicans and 51 percent support from rural independents.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; polls; trump
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So the truth finally comes out.
1 posted on 09/10/2019 10:36:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rural people are just fundamentally better people.

There is no other conclusion.


2 posted on 09/10/2019 10:40:44 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Should be higher to combat big cities, however when it comes to the election it will be because the alternative is straight out Marxism.


3 posted on 09/10/2019 10:41:09 AM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates.)
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To: ilgipper

The big-city Democratic machine will have a problem this time around because the male-black vote will go to around 35-to-40 percent for Trump. Even in Detroit, you can find a pro-Trump situation going on.


4 posted on 09/10/2019 10:45:07 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ilgipper

I tend to agree and l think it probably is higher.


5 posted on 09/10/2019 10:46:08 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: pepsionice; gibsonguy

BINGO! Hispanics too. He already got 38% of the Latino vote last time.


6 posted on 09/10/2019 10:48:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

60 percent may not be enough to offset the liberal cities and suburbs.


7 posted on 09/10/2019 10:50:24 AM PDT by nbenyo
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To: pepsionice

If Trump can get even 15 to 18% of the black vote next year he will win in a landslide. Unless the black vote is highly motivated to turn out for the democrat they will tank worse than in 2016.


8 posted on 09/10/2019 10:51:54 AM PDT by Kahuna
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To: rhinohunter

My wife and I left Seattle for rural KY 8 years ago. She’s back there visiting right now and, after being gone as long as we have, she repeated to me just this morning on the phone something we heard a long time ago about Seattle:

People where we live are friendly. People in Seattle are “polite”. It’s all saccharine.

Needless to say, this is a generalization. :)


9 posted on 09/10/2019 10:52:26 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s at 60% on the LOW END...

Once you get out of the urban centers where you can’t admit to supporting Trump without dealing with the left wing idiots, you see what the reality is...

But they poll and focus and live in the urban centers so they refuse to see, or just don’t realize the reality.


10 posted on 09/10/2019 10:54:59 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: rhinohunter

I’d say they are much more closely connected to traditional American values and principles, more independent, and much less influenced by elites, celebrities, and groupthink.


11 posted on 09/10/2019 10:55:03 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hard to believe it’s only 60% in WV.


12 posted on 09/10/2019 10:56:29 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Democratic machine needs both black and Latino votes to stay in their ‘game’. If they fail (especially if Trump were to get 40-percent of both groups), then the whole strategy of minority ‘gaming’ will require a rethink for 2024. You’d have to run a black-Latino candidate as President...to get the votes back.


13 posted on 09/10/2019 10:57:54 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Trump might get a high voter turnout among whites than he did in 2016.

In 2016, I think some whites thought.... he has no chance. I’m not even going to bother.


14 posted on 09/10/2019 11:03:18 AM PDT by Conserv
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Online polling...

“Change Research is a leader in polling innovation, allowing us to field polls quickly and accurately at a low price point. We recruit fresh participants online for each and every poll, meaning we aren’t affected by the dwindling response rates of landline polling. We use proprietary, patent-pending approaches to recruit participants, and we don’t use online panels of habitual survey takers”


15 posted on 09/10/2019 11:04:23 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was in a Scottsdale, AZ coffe house this morning, sitting near a couple of 60-something year olds. Scottsdale is upscale, and a bit of a retirement haven, so there are many transplants.

The fellow doing most of the talking said he liked that Senator from Minnesota (Klobuchar), but also the Republican woman from Iowa (Ernst, I’m sure). He puts no stock in party platforms. Likes women candidates. Is sick of Sanders. But cannot stand Elizabeth Warren.

From then he went on to talk about hearing aids and his ex-girlfriend.

Anyway, it was a rare opportunity to hear a male who is mature, and thinks about the election, and is guided almost completely by emotions and intuition.

Obviously, he doesn’t want to vote Trump, but I also see a voter like him not getting too excited about Biden or Warren.

There must be a whole industry trying to get his vote. I am glad I am not part of it.


16 posted on 09/10/2019 11:08:09 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: Conserv

I imagine a lot of people were a little nervous about handing over the red button to someone with zero government experience. Now that it’s pretty clear that he’s not going to get us all blown up, I can imagine another group showing up for him.


17 posted on 09/10/2019 11:09:48 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: rhinohunter

I once worked in a store where we sold red ballcaps that said the following:

WARNING: Farming is REAL WORK!

Hence I suspect you’ll find very few Democrats there
(though sheesh, the Republicans sure like their government subsidies).


18 posted on 09/10/2019 11:16:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But is that enough to overcome liberal hives aka cities


19 posted on 09/10/2019 11:25:32 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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The cities have an advantage because they have most of the illegals and gimme dats. Community organizers help them to vote multiple times during election days.


20 posted on 09/10/2019 11:29:24 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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