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.
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.
There are signs everywhere of a major shift in the black and the legal Hispanic community away from leftism towards the right.
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
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.
I have stated here several times recently that this is exactly what we are witnessing, a complete realignment of both political parties.
Considering the electoral demographics, if we just taxed stupidity, we could eliminate the national debt.
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.
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?
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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.
Barone is trying to apply historical statistical analysis to a process out side the historic parameters. Numbers are the bread and butter on which he thrives
Party and normalcy are Trumped by disgust and disdain. The event is emotional enough to cause rational decision making to be cast aside. Voters are apparently climbing out of their ruts.
Most of the candidates rely on Baronian type analysis that is not meaningful in the Trump context
If you are the black carpenter who now can’t get a job because of all the illegal aliens, or a union autoworker who saw his job go to Mexico, you are ripe for a Republican like Trump who almost alone among the candidates sees your plight.
But if the Republican establishment is all you see, you know that their candidate(s) don’t give a damn about you. They work for the Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street and the lobbyists with their bags of money.
It is not Trump who is losing voter blocs - it is the deceit coming from the GOPe that keeps these disenfranchised from voting Republican.