The Republican party has been out of touch with their base for more than a decade. Polls routinely show significant disparity of approval between the parties by their supporters. Dems win every time in those polls. And this is why Republicans have until now been the minority party. (According to Gallup reps have just overtaken dems by one point....first time since 2004.)
Politicians are usually just interested in winning, getting re-elected and getting rich. Most of them have very minimal interest in representing their constituents (outside of donors.)
Trump came along to change that and that is why he is revered among the party faithful....”We love you” chants are rare in politics...:-)
I don’t consider him abrasive at all. I consider him brutally truthful and I applaud leaders establishing honest communication with the people they lead.
Best president ever....:-)
Plenty of people like me find him needlessly abrasive, with the political instincts of a boulder. But his accomplishments and love of country outweigh his flaws IMO.
Really difficult for analysts to decipher early voting this year....seems to be a lot of disagreement.
Target (Tom Bonier) enthusiastically interprets early WI vote being favorable to the dems:
“295,973 votes have been cast by voters in Wisconsin who didn’t vote in the ‘16 general election. They account for 27% of all early votes cast. Democrats have a modeled party ID lead of 17% with these surge voters, as compared to a lead of only 1% with those who did vote in ‘16.”
But I have to wonder if he isn’t doing an apple vs. orange comparison. Since vbm in WI this year to date is 6 times the rate of early in person voting and polls show that vbm is heavily weighted with dems because reps intend to vote on election day I don’t think you can draw his conclusion based on this.
And Robert Cahaly (Trafalgar) sees an overall big increase this time in low propensity (only voted once or twice in past 20) voters which is going strongly to Trump.
And an experienced campaign data strategist sees the early MI vote this way:
“So many people are changing their voting behavior by voting early for the first time. Does not appear that there are a lot of new/lower propensity voters showing up on the dem side, Newly registered new voters that have already voted are Trump +17 which is a slightly stronger spot than this time 4 yrs. ago.