The libs and MSM thought they could deliver those voters to Hillary.
Posted on 09/20/2015 9:03:33 AM PDT by dennisw
Aside from being a loud egomaniacal celebrity showman, there are a number of reasons why Donald Trump is leading his GOP rivals with the support of a far-right segment of the Republican Party aka the Trumpsters.
Let's begin with the fact that most Trumpsters are birthers and STILL believe that President Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya. I kid you not. Public Policy Polling ("PPP") just released the results of their new poll showing that 61 percent of Trump's supporters still don’t believe President Obama was born in America and 62 percent think he is a secret Muslim who has lied about his true religious affiliation, and 63 percent want the U.S. Constitution amended to end birthright citizenship.
However, while these percentages are higher than those of the overall GOP electorate polled by PPP, a majority of Republicans still agreed on two out of the three: 54 percent thought Obama was a Muslim, and 51 percent supported ending birthright citizenship, while only 44 percent still believe Obama wasn’t born in the U.S.
This ignorance despite the FACT that the President’s campaign in 2008 posted his legal birth certificate showing a live birth in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961; despite the fact that President Obama has for over 20 years professed to be a devout Christian and spoken publicly of his "personal relationship with Jesus Christ"; despite no sightings of the President attending a mosque, no pictures of him reading the Koran, or praying to Mecca, or observing Islamic holidays with his family. Most Americans know this nonsense was largely driven by Trump and the racist ignorant birther myth feeds right into the right-wing’s hate for this President.
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Yup. I'm a news junkie here and on Breitbart and consider myself well informed politically.
Damn right we’re angry. About that “low information” crap, though. I have a PhD. My friend who likes Trump has a Ph.D. Another friend with a Ph.D. likes Trump-—not his #1 but acceptable. How many Ph.D.s do you need for the group not to be “low information?”
I was going to post the same thing. Thank you.
The more people know about the disgusting nonsense that is going on, the angrier they should be. We’re mad as hell and we’re not taking it anymore.
Well, I “tried” to read this article and then I felt my breakfast on the way up and quit!
I would submit that the true low-information voters are the ones who elected Obama, twice. The only reason that many voted for him instead of a war hero or a successful businessman is that he is half-African.
I thought Christians were supposed to spend their Sunday mornings in church, not on the golf course. How much time has Obama devoted to these two different activities over the last 7 years?
Leo Kapakos is a seasoned ex-Wall Street executive turned writer. Leo’s very well-versed in finance and economics and isn’t always happy with the way Wall Street conducts itself. A self-described “political junkie”, Leo’s no-nonsense op-eds have taken on politicians, bankers, and the media. Leo is a native New Yorker who is an avid sports fan, classic movie lover, and a dog lover. He has written on all these topics. He has been featured on Socyberty, Sportales, Newsflavor, Bizcovering, CinemaRolling, and EastsideBoxing.com.Since he likes to cite the Democratic Party’s Public Policy Polling as fact, he is more political flunkie than “junkie.”
The Trumpsters have also bought into the Trump and the GOP talking point that Obamacare is a disaster but Trump will fix it because he has a better plan…whatever that might be. Meanwhile, a recent Gallup poll found that 71 percent of those with coverage in the marketplaces said their coverage was “excellent” or “good.” Over 23 million people are now covered through the Affordable Care Act including 10.3 million people who were previously uninsured dropping the uninsured rate by over 25 percent. This year, premiums in the marketplaces increased an average of 4 percent, in line with what is happening in the employer-based market. Contrast that with the year before the the act became law, 2009 to 2010, when premiums increased an average of “15 percent” for those who purchased coverage in the individual market for more than one year. The ACA marketplaces are creating more choices and competition which is one of the reasons why premiums are remaining relatively flat in the exchanges. This year, the number of insurers offering coverage in the marketplaces has increased 25 percent. The FACTS show that the ACA is doing what it was created to do and the goal should be to improve the law where it needs improving, not re-litigate or repeal like Trump wants. …No, the facts are against you, Leo.
LOL
DennisW, careful, you’re going over the sensometer. We may have a Democrat come in and his head explode.
Trump sat in the Marble Collegiate and learned about the power of positive thinking.
Having just left my all girls Catholic school, a few months before, it rocked my head.
What we were taught....you should vote for him because he is a Catholic and therefore the better person.
I did not vote for him.
Latest poll. Out today.
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/nbc-online-survey-fiorina-won-debate-trump-still-leads-n430316
Dude, it’s tough to be the little kid in “The Emperor’s New Clothes” ;)
The libs and MSM thought they could deliver those voters to Hillary.
I love that
I think of myself as more of a Bitter Clinger (tm)
Excellent cartoon. Thanks for posting.
Trump has yet to feel the full wrath of the moneyed interests in DC, its allies in the GOP, and the liberal media working on behalf of the Democrats. These attacks are going to get a lot worse. Trump is a mortal threat to them.
Still haven’t figure out this movement. Sure, it’s fun to watch him... he is a complete nuisance to the MSM, they just don’t know how to handle him. But, 10 minutes on your favorite search engine exposes what Trump really is... and a conservative he is not. Not even close
And because Islam is anti-American, anti-western, and when all is said and done, anti-white, which group mostly created western civilisation.
The damn birth certificate was a photoshop altered copy.
Didn’t he also say “God Damn America” or something very close to that?
Now there’s a Christian for ya...
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