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What Pennsylvanians Think About Trump
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trumps-appeal-in-flyover-country/ ^ | OCTOBER 1, 2020 | PETER VAN BUREN

Posted on 10/01/2020 7:46:48 AM PDT by Hojczyk

People worry Biden is a Trojan Horse; not a single person could name a Biden signature policy initiative. They worry Democrats who don’t understand them will really be in charge. To some it seems men, old people, straight people, entire regions of the country, are being excluded. It isn’t status anxiety but a sense that what used to be a difference of political opinion now makes someone illegitimate as a person

They hear those who may soon be running the government call them haters just because they are poor and white. While Trump is a known element, Biden could mean Obama without the gravitas, or he could mean a Pelosi regency, or a progressive charge of night riders led by Harris. Like Biden, Trump is old and sick, but if not Trump you get Pence, not the deluge.

Who wins Pennsylvania seems a battle of enthusiasm. Little-understood by the coastal MSM is the important role of conservative talk radio in these areas. People spend a fair amount of time in their vehicles, and they listen to regional and local talk radio sometimes for hours.

Nobody in New York pays much attention to these very conservative hosts, many mixing religious and political themes. They are skillful in using listener call-ins to make it seem an agenda is organic when it is driven. The idiots who draw conclusions from Twitter have no idea how powerful a force this may be in driving a turnout which will favor Trump.

It looks like just an affinity for the Yankees or the Nittany Lions, but there is deeper water underneath. Trump’s role in getting the Big Ten teams back on the field was not overlooked. Meanwhile, with a Democratic Governor, there’s no homecoming, no trick-or-treat, not much to do but hang at Walmart.

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1 posted on 10/01/2020 7:46:48 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Tom Wolf and Levine are Trump’s two best weapons in winning PA.


2 posted on 10/01/2020 7:47:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Hojczyk

This assessment is spot on. Biden is just a figurehead. If elected, he will either be out after 18 months or totally sidelined by Harris.


3 posted on 10/01/2020 7:50:30 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Hojczyk

“Like Biden, Trump is old and sick,...”

Where does he get that Trump is sick? Biden looked and sounded like a frail old man who hadn’t seen the sun in months.


4 posted on 10/01/2020 8:00:00 AM PDT by euram
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To: Hojczyk

Pennsylvania will go Trump by a large margin. Look at all of rural Pennsylvania and all through the Philadelphia suburbs and the the entirety of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the people of Pennsylvania passionately promote and vote President Trump!


5 posted on 10/01/2020 8:00:30 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Hojczyk

Like Biden, Trump is old and sick,\

Sick? 1st I heard of that


6 posted on 10/01/2020 8:01:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Hojczyk

I have driven through some Pa suburbs.

Quite a few Biden signs. Way more than Hillary in 2016.

Good news is that rural PA is even more solid Trump and the are islands of support in Philly and Pitts you didnt see in 2016.


7 posted on 10/01/2020 8:07:57 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: 2banana

I live in Bucks County (PA/Philly collar suburb) and work in Montgomery County often. Bucks seems to be about 50/50 with yard signs, but lots & lots of American flags are up, which I think may be a quiet way to show Trump/conservative support.

Montgomery County, on the other hand, looks like a lost cause. It was the birth-place of the “hate has no home here” signs and the Biden/Harris signs are currently about 20 to 1 over Trump/Pence. A lot of “Karens” and “Chads” there, for sure.


8 posted on 10/01/2020 8:23:23 AM PDT by twyn1
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TRUMP needs to tell PA voters, they will be getting President Kamala very very soon! Sleepy DEMENTIA Joe doesn't have much juice left!
9 posted on 10/01/2020 8:29:17 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: twyn1
Thanks for the info the PA burbs. Here in VA the inner burbs are all hopeless. Now the outer burbs have flipped and voted in Dems. But there's also some pushback now (e.g. Loudoun county about 30 miles west of DC).
10 posted on 10/01/2020 8:41:59 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: euram
“Like Biden, Trump is old and sick,...”

Where does he get that Trump is sick? Biden looked and sounded like a frail old man who hadn’t seen the sun in months.


I had the same reaction you did. However reading the article, I gathered that it's not necessarily the author's opinion, but rather what the residents in middle PA were telling him - falsity of the statement notwithstanding.
11 posted on 10/01/2020 9:02:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden: Barack Obama minus the pretty talk.)
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To: euram
Biden looked and sounded like a frail old man who hadn’t seen the sun in months.

You're correct! Too much hidin' in the basement. Biden looked like he had the pallor of death.

12 posted on 10/01/2020 9:05:38 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Until I see them breaking rocks in the hot sun I'll be cleaning my guns!)
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To: Hojczyk

Trump is old and sick? He doesn’t seem sick; he’s got more energy than most people half his age.


13 posted on 10/01/2020 9:08:10 AM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

14 posted on 10/01/2020 9:16:08 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: mewzilla; wattojawa; carriage_hill
Tom Wolf and Levine are Trump’s two best weapons in winning PA

Team TRUMP!


15 posted on 10/01/2020 9:17:52 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: rbg81
They worry Democrats who don’t understand them will really be in charge. To some it seems men, old people, straight people, entire regions of the country, are being excluded.

Maybe because it us true.

They only want us to pull that barge, left that bale and pay those taxes.

16 posted on 10/01/2020 9:18:43 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Hojczyk

Trump is going to take PA Very comfortably. Only prayer for the D’s here is absolutely unprecedented levels of voter fraud.

There is ZERO enthusiasm for Biden.. none

Probably the most vocal folks I know making arguments for Biden aren’t the life long committed active democrats... but NeverTrumpers. That’s how non existence Biden’s enthusiasm is.


17 posted on 10/01/2020 9:23:31 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: mewzilla

Yep.


18 posted on 10/01/2020 9:26:36 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: twyn1

IfTrump carries Bucks and Chester, he wins by a decent amount.


19 posted on 10/01/2020 9:28:13 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Hojczyk
This article is 98% accurate.

In Trump country, there is a local VETs that was open all through this "pandemic", and the only rule they had was you couldn't park in the VET's parking lot, you needed to walk a block or two to get in the back door.

The local cops knew/know it, and some might even tip a cold one when not on duty.

Many of these old VETs, like me, are late 70s and early 80s and the VETs is their only source of social life and reason to keep on living.

If I am ever questioned about this post, I am so old, that like jim comey, I might not recall that I wrote it.

20 posted on 10/01/2020 10:05:33 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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