I agree with many of the comments in this thread. I’ve been saying for a long time any time the press and politicians start hitting Trump harder, it’s because he is gaining ground. Like the old saying, when you’re taking the most fire, you’re directly over the target.
Sam - American voters mostly know only what they see on the 5:00 news. And that’s usually on the big 3, ABC, CBS and NBC. All owned and operated by democrats, donated to democrats, and all have close ties to Democrats in government, and all protecting Hillary. they don’t know or know very little about Hillary’s emails, Benghazi actions, lies, health, any of it. The press is hiding it all.
This is usually referred to as “low information voters”. Most people don’t bother to get online and dig up what is actually happening, they see the 5 o’clock news and think they know all they need to know, and for the most part, refuse to believe they are being lied to, because the so called news is telling them exactly what they want to hear. They have also bene brainwashed their entire lives to believe the news is the last word, journalists are inherently honest and have some sort of built in imperative to tell the truth. It seems appalling and outrageous to them that a reported would actually lie, or even bend the truth.
So most Americans have no idea what is really going on, they know almost nothing about the candidates, and all they know about Trump is what the so called news is spoon feeding them. Most actually believe Trump is a racist and bigot, they don’t know he fought City Hall in Palm Beach FL, to get restrictions removed so he could build his golf course and allow blacks and Jews to have memberships too. They know nothing about the Jesse Jackson video I just saw in another thread praising Trump for his efforts to help blacks in the 90’s. They don’t know he was one of the first executives to hire female executives, or that a female executive was 2nd in command when Trump Tower was built.
The news is telling them none of this, they only repeat all the latest lies Hillary is pushing. As for Hillary saying she will raise taxes, they actually cheered. They cheered when she said she would raise taxes on the middle class. The cheer when she says she will expand Obamacare, because they don’t know it’s already bankrupted over half the exchanges and all the big insurance companies are pulling out, they’re losing BIG money.
People here know almost nothing about either candidate, because the traditional press, where they get 90% of their “news” is not reporting it, and are not trying to dig into the pros and cons of both candidates and simply let us decide, which s what they should actually be doing.
So the short answer is no, voters don’t know about Hillary’s commitment to higher taxes, which she will have no choice about. You can’t give people free college education without the taxpayers picking up the bill. That means more taxes. They don’t know it, they don’t look it up, and they don’t think about it. The only way to expand Obamacare will mean increased taxes. they don’t know it and don’t try to find out.
Low information voters.
Dear Washington,
America is coming,
and they’re bringing Donald J Trump.
My wife is American but feels she gave up her right to vote when she moved here to Canada. She doesn’t like Trump, which is academic, which I still find strange, since she was prepared to support Romney, who was the biggest RINO of all.