Posted on 04/16/2016 12:12:22 AM PDT by GonzoII
BINGHAMTON, United States, April 16, 2016 (BSS/AFP) - What do a New York lawyer, a business owner who calls himself a left-leaning Republican and a construction worker who elected Barack Obama have in common? They're voting for Donald Trump.None of them live on the breadline. They share surprisingly varied opinions. Yet they are profoundly frustrated -- with the economy, with career politicians and with perceptions of declining American prestige.
The Republican frontrunner's supporters are often portrayed as undereducated, underearning whites.
But in upstate New York, where Trump calls himself "the most popular person that's ever lived," the breadth of support spotlights his enduring appeal, albeit as the Republican elites plot to bring him down. The most divisive presidential campaign in a generation hits New York on Tuesday.
"I don't think he's the Hitler everyone puts him out to be, I really truly don't and as a New Yorker I grew up with the guy," says Lloyd Knecht, 59, who owns a heating and air conditioning company that employs 30 people.
Knecht works in Binghamton, one of the fastest-shrinking towns in America and a pale imitation of an illustrious past where IBM was founded more than a century ago and where the flight simulator was invented.
The gradual departure of IBM and other manufacturing corporations, taking jobs and technology overseas, has left behind unemployment above the US average and a poverty rate higher than the state average.
Knecht worries about rising insurance and wage bills, though he believes in "some sort of national health plan." He fears the economy is becoming sluggish. He supported Obama's decriminalization of petty drug crimes.
Trump's populist message promising to bring back jobs and restore national pride with his say-it-how-it-is manner strike a deep chord...
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Why? Should Kasich pull out if he doesn’t get 125%
That can change on a dime.
The people of Buffalo have decamped to Amherst, West Seneca, and Lancaster. They only say they like black people.
The self-absorbed Cruz wants us to believe he's s-o-o-o-o smart at playing the delegate game. But what Cruz is doing doesn't take smarts. It takes deviousness and cunning by a deeply-flawed individual w/ no sense of honesty and fair play.
Rigging the system for oneself in full view of voters is not very smart.
As MIA-ecc11212 insightfully opined: "the stench of Cruz's behavior is not playing well with middle America. America is on to Ted Cruz!!!"
This is amply demonstrated by Cruz collapsing in most polls.
What is irritating with the NY primary is that nobody is asking Hillary why all of her promises when she was running for her carpetbagger NY Senate seat amounted to nothing. She said the same nonsense (more jobs upstate, opportunity, blah blah blah) and the state’s decline continued unabated.
I’m surprised at how many Hispanics have been trafficked to the Hudson Valley (to keep the lights on, classrooms & housing full, etc.); years ago it was noticeable...
To those who don't already see it, what Cruz is trying to do will become abundantly clear after he remains in the race despite being unable to reach 1237 before the convention.
Well if Hillary wins,which she absolutely shouldn’t by any stretch of the imagination in the real world, it will be because of the split among the Cruz and Trump camps. At the end, she will probably walk out clapping her hands slowly to tell her propaganda team, with the assistance of the WH propaganda machine, how well they did their jobs and played the emotions of the conservatives in the U.S.
http://nypost.com/2011/06/21/keeping-the-jobs-promise-to-upstate/
This is amply demonstrated by Cruz collapsing in most polls.
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Originally, when Trump went after Cruz calling him “lyin’ Ted” I thought he was hard on him.
It turns out Trump was totally correct.
Main Street America does not like cheating types. Cruz is a typical lawyer acting in typical weasel fashion.
Lawyers always try to get away with things typically viewed as cheating.
From the beginning I did not like Cruz because he was a lawyer. Lawyers are all weasels. Add to that that he is also a senator and you have a recipe for disaster. Senators make horrible candidates and even worse presidents: Obama, McCain, Kerry, Graham, Rubio, Cruz, Dole etc.
This is music to the ears.
However, it seems to me that the Rules are quite different from the dirty tricks.
TRUMP could square with the rules, if his delegates weren’t already rejected and replaced with Cruz operators, instead of TRUMP supporters.
No one really knows the extent of the damage. But, TRUMP has a mutiny on his hands.
Since Cartel Cruz has made the centerpiece of his campaign knocking off TRUMP delegates, to include even TRUMP’s “Earned Delegates”, it’s nice to hear the TRUMP Campaign acknowledge that they at least know wth is going on.
I mean, how do you make the corrections and even find those TRUMP supporters who were knocked out, sent home with their hat in their hand, and get them back in the game in every congressional district in every state so far?
Cruz’ delegates have had the run of the field for months. These fraud delegate replacements are all but booked to Cleveland, while the TRUMP supporters who tried to be his delegates are back home mowing their grass.
Probably, the most obvious steals in this delegate scandal can be corrected. The way TRUMP is beating the heck out of Cruz in the popular vote, maybe he actually *can* eject just a few of these fraud delegates enough to clean up the score card in Cleveland and seal off the coven of pretenders from their Second Ballot mutiny.
Meant to ping you.
Trump calls himself “the most popular person that’s ever lived,”
WOW! Guess what is down hill from that Fabulous cliff Donald the Pied Piper has all the lemmings gleefully marching toward? A steaming caldron of poop.
Exactly. That comment right there drew my response at 51.
All those manufacturing jobs just didn’t go somewhere else, the damn liberals drove them away.
Electing another liberal in conservative camo will not change that scenario.
Can you give an example or name one company that exemplifies your assertion?
Two words for you (THREE times)
George Pataki
George Pataki
George Pataki
One of the last places I feel any concern for or focus on is New York. A bit moreso for non-NYC.
We all know my assertion is correct.
I challenge you to name Texas companies that have been driven out similarly to New England.
They only say they like black people.
LOL. I was too polite to say that. I didn’t see a dark skinned face in the whole time I was there. They must hide them somewhere. In the south African Americans, Hispanics, Asians are woven into our daily lives. They are our bankers our neighbors, our doctors our mechanics our waiters our school teachers. It was totally strange in Buffalo.
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