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Another Impossible Thing May Happen: Change in Partisan Alignments
Townhall.com ^ | September 1, 2015 | Michael Barone

Posted on 09/01/2015 6:26:50 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/01/2015 6:26:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Perhaps a pipe dream, but I’ve long thought that down the road a conservative separation from the GOP-e could also attract a significant portion of the black community. There are a lot of social conservatives in the black churches. Time will tell.


2 posted on 09/01/2015 6:29:48 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
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To: Kaslin

The “Trump Phenomenon” is the confluence of Americans fed-up with the political professionals, the media and liberal academia.

These inside-the-beltway “aristocrats” still refuse to accept or understand it.

They do so at their own peril.


3 posted on 09/01/2015 6:31:29 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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To: Kaslin

There are signs everywhere of a major shift in the black and the legal Hispanic community away from leftism towards the right.


4 posted on 09/01/2015 6:32:00 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Hispanics have a socially conservative bent too, but it never fails to overcome the lure of free sh*t at election time.

If there is a re-alignment it is going to end up looking like most of my Democrat neighbors in Pittsburgh. Social Conservatives rooting for Bernie Sanders economics.


5 posted on 09/01/2015 6:33:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

Remember the “Reagan Democrats”

People who claimed to be Democrats but liked an d voted for Reagan.

For pretty much the same reasons Trump is winning.

Reagan had a little more tact, but times were very different


6 posted on 09/01/2015 6:33:23 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

should have said ALWAYS fails to overcome it


7 posted on 09/01/2015 6:34:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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There should be a stiff tax on all Democrat bastions in the affluent enclaves of the east and west coasts and the metropolitan mid-west. The Middle Class is sick of paying for their Leftist redistribution schemes, which have done nothing but make Middle Class families struggle and The Poor families implode. It’s time they put their money where Bernie Sanders’ mouth is.


8 posted on 09/01/2015 6:35:09 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

I hate to say it, but I don’t think most Blacks, most Whites or voters in the wider minority community have the capacity to make astute political decisions due to their ignorance of the American Constitutional system.


9 posted on 09/01/2015 6:40:18 AM PDT by yetidog
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To: Kaslin

I have stated here several times recently that this is exactly what we are witnessing, a complete realignment of both political parties.


10 posted on 09/01/2015 6:41:05 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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Considering the electoral demographics, if we just taxed stupidity, we could eliminate the national debt.


11 posted on 09/01/2015 6:42:14 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Nail on head. The whole Trump phenomenom has told me that small government conservatism is dead. With most people on the right, including the purists, Conservatism was only skin deep. It was based purely on social issues, underneath there was pure New Deal Liberalism on the issues of government and economics.


12 posted on 09/01/2015 6:45:53 AM PDT by gusty
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To: TexasFreeper2009

We are. However, for smaller government, free market conservatives it is our nightmare. We are seeing what I have feared for years, the fusion of social conservatism with leftist economics. It is the New Deal Democrat with the flat top haircut on the Fourth of July. We are finding that all along, that is what those who called themselves conservative wanted.


13 posted on 09/01/2015 6:50:58 AM PDT by gusty
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To: Kaslin

The democrats are now the weather underground of 1976 and the gopes are now the democrats of 1976.

I think the partisan divide is wider than ever. Democrats are America hating communists, adrift in a morass of hate, relativism and sodomy.


14 posted on 09/01/2015 6:51:01 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: TexasFreeper2009

One thing I am noticing, a complete breakdown of the generally accepted “no new taxes” stance that Republicans have held since Reagan.

Trump is proposing to raise taxes on the wealthy. He is doing this because it is popular. Even amongst many Republicans. It’s bad economics but that shift is definitely occurring.


15 posted on 09/01/2015 6:53:59 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

Saw at least one report of a “ Democrats for Trump” bumper sticker

Wonder what results democrat pollsters would get if they asked the question Hillary, Bernie, or Donald?


16 posted on 09/01/2015 6:54:21 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: ecomcon

If the GOPe are the Democrats of 1976, than the Trumpsters are the Democrats of 1956.


17 posted on 09/01/2015 6:57:22 AM PDT by gusty
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I think also you have to consider that these folks have been watching big government Crony Capitalism at work for Wall Street and corporations for a long time. Eventually it starts to sink in that there IS no free market. And if that’s the case, the next logical move is to tilt the un-free market in a direction more in my favor.


18 posted on 09/01/2015 6:57:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin; Salamander
The biggest shift toward Democrats, 9 points, came in Obama's birthplace Hawaii, and in left-trending Vermont.

...alleged birthplace Hawaii...

The next biggest (at 5 points) were in Virginia and North Carolina, where the Obama campaign rallied high-education newcomers and larger-than-national-average black populations to the polls.

On the ground reports indicate that some poling places had more black voters show up than the entire population of blacks in that precinct.

19 posted on 09/01/2015 6:58:26 AM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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...alleged birthplace Hawaii...

Exactly

20 posted on 09/01/2015 7:00:41 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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