Posted on 11/02/2016 1:31:37 PM PDT by Rufus Shinra
Election day is rapidly approaching, and while Hillary Clinton seems busy defending states like Michigan that were already thought to be firmly locked up for her, Donald Trump is on the offensive in historically blue states that could very well end up in his corner.
This year's election is likely to come down to a handful of swing states, and Donald Trump has a tight electoral path to victory, which is why voters in states like Pennsylvania are going to play a pivotal role in outcome of this race.
In a highly under reported story earlier this year, members of the Amish community were found to be quietly rallying behind Donald Trump and attending his events. There's been little to no reporting in previous election years regarding Amish voters, as they typically do not vote in large numbers, but this year's political issues have been particularly impactful in their communities. In fact, an Amish PAC is even seeking volunteers to help drive Amish voters to the polls on election day
From Amish PAC Plain Voters Project website:
Amish PAC needs volunteers to help drive Amish voters to the polls in Pennsylvania. In addition, if you have any Amish friends or neighbors and would like to give them a ride to the polls on Election Day, Amish PAC will provide you with a prepaid gas card.This is the same Amish PAC that put up billboards for Donald Trump in Lancaster country, Pennsylvania, and encouraged communities to get involved. In a rare showing of political involvement, Amish voters even showed up to support Trump during his rally in Lancaster County on October 1st.The purpose of Amish PAC's Plain Voter Project is to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by turning out a deeply conservative and often forgotten block of voters concentrated in two key swing states - the Amish.
Amish PAC has no use for internet and television advertising because the voters we're targeting don't use the internet or watch television. Therefore, Amish PAC's ad blitz is two-pronged: Newspapers and Billboards. In addition, Amish PAC is building a large network of volunteers across Amish Country to assist in voter registration and flyer distribution.
Pennsylvania could be the key to victory for Trump, and if the state turns red on election night, then it's a safe bet he has won this election.
If you're in Pennsylvania and would like to help Amish voters make it to the polls, you can visit the Amish PAC's volunteer form here.
This was a sociology/comparative religion class and you are extremely wrong in your stupid assumptions about what my profs knew and what I learned.
I also know about the Doukhobors, thanks to that class, which I doubt you've even heard of, let alone know who they are and what they believe.
FYI...some Amish did vote for W; however, that was the first "break" with their nonvoting history!
Don't ever imagine that you know more than I do, about the Amish, just because you live in Pa.; you don't!
I’ve loved the Amish and been fascinated by them for years - I live a half hour outside of Princeton and we often go to stores in which the Mennonites sell very excellent products - meat & veg. I hope the Repubs wake up in time but I doubt it.
Thanks! I’ve never been involved in an election like this before, mainly because I’ve never been passionate about anyone running for president, in my lifetime at least. But I’m doing everything I can to help Trump get elected. In my area in PA, there’s more political signs in people’s yards than I’ve ever seen before, and they are literally all for Trump.
I get that a lot of people here are super suspicious of others trying to market their own websites, and I understand, but I’m not selling anything here, it’s totally for other people’s benefit. I have no ads, and no goal except to help Trump get elected. If I can help spread the message, even if it’s to other fellow conservatives, then I feel good about that. I don’t have any money to donate to Trump unfortunately, lost my job last year to outsourcing and moved out to the country where I grew up. Always liked it better than the city, but there are 0 job opportunities where I’m at.
I can make websites though, and I’m doing what I can in my area to help Trump get elected by taking PA.
Trump, unlike any other GOP presidential candidate, within at least 50 years, has actually done reach-outs to blacks and other minorities. Hopefully, Trump will now take a look at the Amish, the Mennonites, and maybe even the groups others don't even know about. :-)
The GOPEers? They don't EVER do any out-reach at all!
Thanks M.M and nobody should mess with you either; you too know way more than those who only imagine that they “know” something about a topic.
Just ignore humble; most of the time he just has a fly up his nose and is being overtly cranky.
Unbelievable! We went to college at a time when there was no such thing as pc and English lit teachers believed that America was a Christian country - not because they were Christians themselves but because they understood the origins of America - and that the Adamic hero was a major literary metaphor of Hawthorne and Melville et al. Try that on some pajama boy today!
Keep up the good fight, as always, against the forces of stupidity here.
I have a hex sign on my front door - two lovebirds, actually. It’s a tribute to my late mother who loved visiting the Amish and always bought their signs and put them up on her own front door. Wonderful people.
Thank you! You are a true patriot!
I’m so sorry you lost your job. You are not alone. My husband lost his job in 2011 and we have finally righted our life after many travails. You will to!
There was NO WAY that any of students knew which political party any prof we had, belonged to, there was NO damned PC crap, nor safe spaces, "triggers", micro/macro-aggression, and having read my eyes out through American Lit, English Lit, World Lit, classical Lit., and more, I and the rest of the then kiddos who I shared classrooms with, took it in our stride!
Oh yes, had all of the Christian symbolism, etc., talked about in Moby Dick, The House of Seven Gables, Pilgrims Progress, Run Rabbit Run, and a huge pile of other books, I can only imagine how today's little snowflakes would crumble. Oh yes and then there is all the ribaldry in The Canterbury Tales, The Aeneid, and yes, Run Rabbit Run. The "triggers" in all of Shakespeare's works, not to mention The Romance of The Rose, The Metamorphosis, and Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet....oh the "horror"! *gasp"
You too, my friend...you too; after all, who else is going to educated the the hapless? :-)
Yes, the Amish are very creative, though "plain folk" and I too love those hex signs!
God bless you!!!
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Wow! Your list of books brings back memories - some of the kids in my high school were reading the Rabbit books as book reports! Cheever, Roth, you name it, they were reading it. Dirty Shakespeare, Christian Melville, all would send kids today to the safe rooms.
Funny you should bring up "dirty" Shakespeare. We all had such fun in our Shakespeare class, talking about all of the "dirty" bits and jokes. This class predated MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, but it was quite a bit like some of the skits in it.....all thanks to Willie the Shake; as we wound up calling him.
And if Shakespeare weren't enough, my classes in Early European Theatre, were truly something else again! Forget French Farce; the English have never been slackers in that area!
>>Saddle up some big wagons and bring them to vote!
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This is a GREAT idea. In the fall, there are many big wagons used to give children fun hayrides. I’ve ridden in them.
MANY people can fit in one of their wagons, and be driven to the polls.
God Bless the Amish. Really Good People. Smart People. They know if HRC steals it, she will obliterate them as well.
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