Posted on 08/23/2016 2:44:50 PM PDT by blam
Salena Zito
August 23, 2016
If you drive anywhere in Pennsylvania, from the turnpike to the old US routes to the dirt roads connecting small towns like Hooversville with “bigger” small towns like Somerset, you might conclude that Donald Trump is ahead in this state by double digits.
Large signs, small signs, homemade signs, signs that wrap around barns, signs that go from one end of a fence to another dot the landscape with such frequency that, if you were playing the old-fashioned road-trip game of counting cows, you would hit 100 in just one small town like this one. Modal TriggerA barn displays a Trump banner in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.Photo: Getty Images In Ruffsdale, I am pretty sure I saw more than 100 Trump signs.
It’s as if people here have not turned on the television to hear pundits drone on and on about how badly Trump is losing in Pennsylvania.
It’s not just visual: In interview after interview in all corners of the state, I’ve found that Trump’s support across the ideological spectrum remains strong. Democrats, Republicans, independents, people who have not voted in presidential elections for years —They have not wavered in their support.
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I go all over the area around the NW side of the DC beltway, even in areas where they only took down their Kerry-Lieberman signs to put up Obama signs, you seldom see Hillary signs.
I see Hillary signs this year about as often as I saw McCain signs in 2008.
“I’ve found that Trump’s support across the ideological spectrum remains strong. Democrats, Republicans, independents, people who have not voted in presidential elections for years —They have not wavered in their support....”
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...despite the unprecedented 24/7 Media crusade against him. They are just stooped hicks who have no idea of what is best for us... err... I mean.... THEM.
BTTT
Really excellent piece by a GREAT reporter.
Spirit of Brexit
Triple distilled.
Great comparison !
Many thanks to Salena Zito for venturing into ‘flyover’ then being willing to open her eyes and see what was happening. It’s women like this that will save American journalism... women willing to risk telling the truth.
but the way to win is to campaign in the cities. major newspapers & TV is located in cities and people watch TV & read newspapers. Romney in 2012 seemed to adopt a strategy of campaigning on a “right to get rich & stay rich” convention theme, a platform of lowering the top tax rate to 25% & lowering the capital gains tax to zero...(considered to be pretty radical right...especially after 2008 when Democrats & the press successfully persuaded the majority that the 2008-2011 recession was caused by the Bush tax cuts & speculators, deficits...)
Romney seemed to campaign in well-off, mostly white GOP districts of so-called “swing states” (even though Pennsylvania has a 51% to 37& registration advantage for Democrats, whereas Iowa is 33% GOP/31% Democrat/36% Independent and Ohio is 37% Republican/33% Democrat/30%Independent).......and Romney seemed to intend to scare his imagined Republican “base” to the polls to outvote minorities in the cities. I failed miserably. You have to campaign in the cities to win the suburbs and you have to court the minority vote and not be seen avoided them. Romney looked racist, and only succeeded in scaring the Independent voters back to Obama whom they didn’t even like....and scared minorities to the polls to keep him out of office...in part because the press was against him....as a “vulture capitalist who did not create all that many jobs and was a threat to government workers in states such as Virginia with his “government doesn’t create jobs/only the private sector creates jobs” rhetoric. You don’t win elections running against Medicaid and the mailman at United States Postal Service. Especially because we already have a “partially privatized” Social Security system of IRAs and 401K plans, when Bush started campaigning for changes to Social Security while the price shot over $4 after Katrina and then in 2008-—the country turned against the GOP with a vengeance and really has NOT turned back, judging by Obama’s 2012 reelection.
The more Trump campaigns in and around cities and seems to like cities and be comfortable in cities, the better off he will do with groups such as “suburban housewives” and “suburban working women”....because he won’t look racist or like he’s only talking to white people and has the welfare of everybody in mind. Bill Clinton cut taxes for the rich in his second term and left George W Bush as mess with a stock market crash worse than 1929. Hillary was on the board of directors at Walmart. How did that happen? and why did we bailout big bankers and make them richer after 2008? Over 90% of banks and S&L’s after 2008 had no subprime exposure and owned no mortgage backed bonds (or were they bond-backed mortgages, where they had to create subprime and ARMs just so they could make more money selling more “save,insured AAA bonds” & keep the Ponzi scheme going by financing mortgage lending from popular international bond markets)......the tea party began as a necessary and important protest against senseless, wasteful stimulus and deficits, weak dollar policy, TARP as a cover-up of corrupt bailouts.......letting gas prices and food prices double.........and Trump needs to tap into the original spirit of the tea party as a grass roots movement that was ruined by Sean Hannity and Glen Beck when they began not just reported them, but organizing them and taking them over as a way to impose their own agenda on the GOP. Trump should not get suckered in by Hannity as kingmaker of Christine O”Donnell...Rubio, Carson, Cruz....Hannity has a way of creating monsters that come back and harm the GOP....
the Internet has divided the country , but most people aren’t very engaged in politics and just have a general opinion about the two parties or politics in general...and Democrats will have an easier time getting new people to the polls to vote for a woman and against Trump than vice-verse unless Trump campaigns the right way for the right things and gets people interested like the original tea party movement did. People still get a lot of their opinions and attitudes unconsciously through mass media or their families growing up. Democrats blamed the 1930s Depression on tax cuts, too and on de-regulation.
The sleepers have awakened!
Many days I walk for exercise through a liberal neighborhood near a university (I don’t live there). On my most recent walk I saw one Hillary bumper sticker, but zero Hillary yard signs. Bernie bumper stickers were common. Four houses still had Bernie yard signs. I walked past the Machinists Union hall, where they had taken down their Hillary sign. —I’m not sure why the union isn’t endorsing her.
It would be dangerous to park a car with a Trump sticker in this neighborhood. In previous elections vandalism to Republican signs and bumper stickers was common.
My sense is Trump has “crawl over broken glass” support while Hillary has “I might vote if its a nice day and I’m running errands anyway” support.
The voter fraud in Philadelphia makes Pennsylvania a tough one for Trump to win. If I were Trump I’d be training, registering and paying poll watchers in the battleground states.
PA’s famous Little Alabama.
When you travel outside Philadelphia and Pittsburgh you come across small towns that dot the state.
Flyover country talking heads casually dismiss.
I’m being cynical in predicting Hillary will be our next Prez cuz she has the urban vote locked up.
Common sense doesn’t count for much in this country and don’t be surprised if she gets elected in November.
Trump will win and win BIG.
What goes against Hillary is her age, health issues, and that she is not as popular as Obama was.
I don’t think the dead need to be made to vote anymore. Now regular live conservative voters can be made to vote Hillary. Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaLyth-08Hg
and recent primary fraud here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KngtvqbWiSw
and the most conclusive demonstration to date was taken down here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sMqvY_VSPI
There are techniques to recover videos that Google has taken down or had to take down. If you know how or know someone that can recover such a video using the old url, it would save me a lot of time, thank you.
These videos all talk about ‘memory cards’ and it is difficult to think that an election can be stolen by a few criminals carrying a few memory cards.
But that is not how it needs to work. An elections supervisor can dispatch a security team with a case of such memory cards to be installed in every electronic machine as part of election preparation without knowing the cards are infected.
Who provides these cards? In what quantity? What is the procedure for checking them out? And so on.
Further, not every county need have an electronic voting machine and in fact, not every town or city within any county need have an electronic voting machine.
For example, in Washington State, King County is the most populous. For years, King County has been the last county to report the results of elections leaving an opportunity to see other counties report first so that the number of votes needed to overcome more conservative counties can be determined.
And within King County, Seattle is the biggest city with the largest homeless population and with ballots of dead people and people that have moved away. In 2004, it was found in a court case that more than 500 homeless persons in Seattle were registered to vote with home addresses listed as the downtown elections office address.
But with electronic machines, the need to register the homeless or avail of dead voters is no longer necessary. The machines can fabricate all that is needed to overcome a lead by an unwanted candidate.
So then, all over the country a map can be made of such counties as King County, Washington and of such cities as Seattle. And the election can be stolen with just a few choice districts in each state.
LMAO.
I think you’ll see a few blue states in the Northeast go for Trump...
The root cause of our problems is government and their propagandists. Those not connected to government understand this. Salena Zito doesn’t.
“If you drive anywhere in Pennsylvania, from the turnpike to the old US routes to the dirt roads connecting small towns like Hooversville with “bigger” small towns like Somerset, you might conclude that Donald Trump is ahead in this state by double digits.”
The roads that connect Hooversville to Somerset are PA Routes 403 and 281. They’re paved and have been so for more than 60 years.
She’s right about the Trump wave though.
I spent Christmas in Pismo Beach, California last year. In my daily walk arount the neighborhood, the only bumper stickers I saw were all on one car. There was a Sanders, a SF street parking permit sticker and a police union sticker all on the same car...one of those little fag electric Toyotas.
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