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In Pa., shifting electorate and 'a historic election'
Philly.com ^ | Updated: April 24, 2016 — 3:01 AM EDT | Maria Panaritis and Dylan Purcell

Posted on 04/24/2016 12:24:14 AM PDT by GonzoII

Jim Donnelly is a registered Republican who is disgusted. His lifelong party, he believes, has done little for anyone but the wealthy, the well-connected, and its own leaders.

"I'm a strong Republican and this is the worst I've ever seen it," said Donnelly, 73, a retired factory production manager who lives in Lansdale. "In Washington, D.C., and in Harrisburg, the Republicans are only looking out for themselves. I don't see any Republican I like except for Donald Trump - because he says it the way it is."

Donnelly has a lot of company in Pennsylvania.

For decades, the state has had a fairly consistent, predictably low-key GOP identity. But this year's presidential race is upending long-standing patterns, exposing a changing electorate demanding change.

Voter-registration data and polls suggest a wave of GOP disgruntlement among the blue-collar whites of the Philadelphia suburbs, places that not too long ago were populated by reliable so-called Country Club Republicans, the type who might normally gravitate toward Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Fewer college degrees and more economic woes instead have made such places fertile ground for the message, and the candidacy, of Trump.

Places like blue-collar Springfield, Delaware County, where slightly more than half of all residents lack a college degree and Republicans are 60 percent of registered voters. Or Warminster, Bucks County, where barely a third of residents have a high school diploma or some college, and nearly half, 45 percent, are registered Republican.

On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders has similarly stoked leftist voter anger with his challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. His middle-class-is-suffering message is playing well among the state's many millennials under 35.

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To: sargon

I see you’re running out of steam, so you just relax, and I’ll tell you more about Cruz.

TED CRUZ received 100% from Heritage Action;

A+ from Gun Owners (my personal favorite);

97% from Conservative Review;

98% from Freedom Works.

There’s much more, but you’ll have to do some research on your own, and get your friends to do the same, or we lose the country.


41 posted on 04/24/2016 11:53:36 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: GonzoII
"The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."
George Deukmejian

42 posted on 04/24/2016 11:57:08 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
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To: Sun
Obviously, YOU are for Hillary, because you want Donald Trump, the one who Hillary beats in voluminous polls, to win.


You poor, deluded fool.





VOTE (FOR REAL)!

VOTE TRUTH!

VOTE TRUMP!




43 posted on 04/25/2016 12:10:34 AM PDT by onyx (You're here posting, so sign-up to DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: Sun

>I don’t want baby girls, or boys, to be sucked out, burned to death with saline, or ripped apart, because of the sins of the rapist.

Don’t worry, once Cruz steals the nomination and loses in a landslide to Hillery this clearly won’t happen. It’s not like Hillery and her fully Liberal congress and supreme court won’t legalize partial birth abortions. Heck even if that happens, we can say for sure that she won’t add infanticide to the list of acceptable activities, right?

You may not like Trump’s position on abortion, but it’s a heck of a lot better than Hillery’s. Cruz has been mathematically eliminated and will doom us to Hillery if he starts a convention fight.

I did some more research and you’re right Reagan on abortion.


44 posted on 04/25/2016 12:22:58 AM PDT by RedWulf ((Trump supporter))
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To: gogeo; altura; onyx
She has no link.

There is no such discreditation. It's a fact, polls done in the Spring of 1980 said Carter would swamp Reagan in November

Carter was so excited about how easily he was going to beat Reagan when he became the presumptive nominee, he literally laughed at how simple it was going to be.

Only a delusional Cruzer would say the kind of thing she did. As Reagan once said, there's so much of what they know that isn't so.

Delusional Cruzers have this one dangerous aspect: willingly, or unwillingly, they want Hillary to finish the destruction the bamster has set in motion. They think only bitter thoughts about their "principled conservative" not being in the white house, so bitter they would rather see Hillary win so they can be snarky in the future.

I used to feel sorry for her, now I suspect she will ride the lightning. When she goes off to watch for the green flash on a beach afterwards, sadly, the green flash will be her and she still won't understand.

45 posted on 04/25/2016 12:31:27 AM PDT by Lakeshark (One time Cruz supporter who now prefers Trump. Yes, there are good reasons.)
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To: Sun
I used to support Cruz, did so until January. I really was excited about his candidacy, and was certain he would not only win, but take part in a renaissance of American values.

He's not the person I thought he was, thankfully I switched preference before it became apparent he had so many deep issues.

I hope you come to grips with how he lost his principles. It started with his Chicago pronouncement of blaming Trump for the leftist thug violence. It continues with his alliance with the GOPe #nevertrumpers. There is a lot of information in between Chicago, and now to show you the man is an unprincipled fraud, and not any kind of principled conservative.

I hope you come to realize how deeply you have been fooled.

Soon.

46 posted on 04/25/2016 12:39:32 AM PDT by Lakeshark (One time Cruz supporter who now prefers Trump. Yes, there are good reasons.)
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To: Sun
Just about everyone on this forum was for Cruz at one point.

We've all seen how he has behaved for months on end on the campaign trail: unprincipled, amoral, and in bed with the GOPe.

Now his support on this forum has been obliterated.

Donald Trump has garnered 2.4 million votes more than Cruz, and that gap will only widen on Tuesday.

Ted Cruz will have multiple last place finishes on Tuesday.

Ted Cruz will arrive at the convention with, at best, 700 delegates or so. I guess that's when the magical unicorns will start farting equally magical Skittles that, when consumed, will cause the entire GOP electorate to suddenly forget what has been happening for the last few months.

And Cruz is now cooperating with GOPe Kasich(!)

Ted Cruz, and his supporters, want the GOPe to be involved in a contested national convention.

Ted Cruz will not be the GOP nominee. Everyone knows that the GOPe stealing being involved in the nomination would:

Ted Cruz is willing to sacrifice his party, and even the country, on the altar of his own blind ambition.

At this point, Cruz's egotism and narcissism make Donald Trump's pale in comparison.

That's why his campaign is collapsing.

Vote Trump

47 posted on 04/25/2016 12:51:32 AM PDT by sargon (Continue insulting us with 24/7 anti-Trump diatribes and insults, your opus will be assumed.)
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To: onyx

Yes dear, I KNOW liberal Republicans, such as Trump and Kasich, will probably do well in liberal states like Rhode Island.

I live in liberal NY where they elected Donald Trump’s friends, who Donald gave MONEY to namely: Cuomo, Schumer, Spitzer, and other bad dudes.


48 posted on 04/25/2016 1:34:28 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Sun
I KNOW liberal Republicans, such as Trump, will probably do well in liberal states like Rhode Island.

Yes, just like Donald Trump did well in "liberal" states like Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and basically the entire "liberal Republican" South.

Your tired Cruz/GOPe canards are absurd on their face. Just the most feeble and clumsy propaganda.

Vote Trump

49 posted on 04/25/2016 1:39:28 AM PDT by sargon (Continue insulting us with 24/7 anti-Trump diatribes and insults, your opus will be assumed.)
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To: RedWulf

Being better than Hillary (IF Trump is) is not good enough.

We are going backwards on the life issue.

I want somebody as good as Cruz, who is 100% pro-life, which is why the National Right-to-Life Committees endorsed him, as well as many other pro-life groups.


50 posted on 04/25/2016 1:41:18 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Lakeshark

Trump started it, and even when Ted Cruz ignored it, Trump would not let go, BECAUSE Ted was climbing in the polls.

I love Ted Cruz. Cruz led a rally to stop the Iran nuke deal, and invited Donald Trump, and Trump did attend.

BUT when Ted jumped in the polls, Donald insulted him badly and totally without class.

Ted ignored it at first. Then Donald kept it up, so Ted handled it with humor. However, it got worse, so Ted fought back.

Ted does NOT have a quick temper, like Donald, but knows how to put bullies, like Donald, in their place when provoked too long.

VOTE for TED CRUZ!


51 posted on 04/25/2016 2:22:45 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: sargon

“Just about everyone on this forum was for Cruz at one point. ..”

Then along came a rich, bored, egotistical old man, who got them drunk on Trump kool-aid.

How can ANYONE believe someone, like Trump, who was liberal ten months ago, and “changed his mind” on countless issues JUST BEFORE DECIDING TO RUN.

Don’t be fooled!


52 posted on 04/25/2016 2:31:31 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: sargon

Face it, Trump usually does best in OPEN PRIMARY states, liberal states, or purple states, like Florida. Remember the hanging chad in Florida?

Cruz won his home State of Texas with a whooping 1.2 million votes case. Trump won his State of NY with about one-half million. Quite a difference, huh.

In fact, Trump LOST in his own district in NY. Heck, even his neighbors don’t like him.


53 posted on 04/25/2016 2:39:23 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: All

“Attention Donald Trump: Killing 330,000 Babies Outweighs Any Good Planned Parenthood Does

National Steven Ertelt Mar 14, 2016 (snip)

For most people it’s not ok to kill kids so long as you have a good marketing program, powerful political connections, or do a few “cancer screenings” that most can get from a local community center which isn’t tainted with the blood of the abortion industry.....’”

more: http://www.lifenews.com/2016/03/14/attention-donald-trump-killing-330000-babies-outweighs-any-good-planned-parenthood-does/?utm_content=buffer990e8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


54 posted on 04/25/2016 2:43:48 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: All

If you like the Second Amendment, be sure to vote Cruz.

Most of us probably remember the victory for 2nd amendment rights in Washington, D.C. (D.C. v. Heller)., but it was Ted Cruz, when he was Texas’s solicitor general, who was lead counsel for the case and won!. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 against the D.C. ban on handguns. Cruz also successsfully argued a number of other Constitutional landmark victories.


55 posted on 04/25/2016 2:49:37 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: bboop
Yeah, I have a feeling we are being set up...again. I think
the GOPe wouldn't mind Hillary...she's an absolute crook,
but a principled one that will keep the status quo.
56 posted on 04/25/2016 3:44:03 AM PDT by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: Sun

>I want somebody as good as Cruz, who is 100% pro-life,

How can you believe that a man who regularly breaks his word and bears false wittness to both the people and his fellow Christians will keep his word on abortion? Ted Cruz only cares about power and will do anything to achieve it.


57 posted on 04/25/2016 7:26:32 AM PDT by RedWulf ((Trump supporter))
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To: Sun
Here's a great Reagan quote for you: It isn't so much that liberals Cruzers are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”

Okay, okay, I inserted that Cruzer part. Could you tell?

My recollection is that Ted started it behind closed doors with his mega donors, telling them he was going to start characterizing Trump as unfit for the presidency because of his temperament. He proceeded to make that a big part of his campaign, so it's simply untrue that Trump "started it".

Cruz then began to characterize the Trump positions on issues incorrectly, purposefully using old (sometimes ten or more years prior) things said somewhere as his new positions. Sorry, but persistently and consistently mischaracterizing what someones positions are is called......*drum roll*........lying. Oh, gosh, did I offend you by suggesting Cruz is often a liar?

Ask Ben Carson about that lying thing, okay?

And about that Iran thing Ted supposedly opposed. Just so you get your facts (stubborn things) straight, Ted led the charge to pass Corker/TPP. He led the charge to allow the bamster to do the Iran deal without senate approval, all because of your so called "principled conservative". Sorry, the man is a bit of a charlatan, and if you believe he "led the charge against the Iran deal", you need to get off those meds you are taking.

Yes, Ted's polls went up, but you forget, Trump's went up too, and a lot higher than Ted's. A lot. It's why he's winning.

Trump is the better candidate for a dozen reasons, Cruz is a bit of a fraud, exposed by this campaign.

I'm so glad I changed in January.

Vote Trump!

58 posted on 04/25/2016 8:55:30 AM PDT by Lakeshark (One time Cruz supporter who now prefers Trump. Yes, there are good reasons.)
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To: Sun
Trump has done fine in many closed primary states, including Florida.

It's Cruz t hat has trouble in almost all primary states.

Cruz's forté has been caucus states, which rely on collectivist groupthink.

Apparently, Ted Cruz plans on limping into the GOP convention with, at best, about 700 delegates or so.

And then what's he going to do somehow, magically? He's going to seize the nomination from Donald Trump, displacing the party's clear frontrunner.

Then what? This is the most ridiculous part: after swiping the nomination, he will:

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Cruz's best case scenario.

It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.

Ted Cruz appears fully willing to sacrifice his own party, and even the country, on the altar of his own blind personal ambition.

After Tuesday night and multiple last place finishes, the Ted Cruz campaign is over whether he likes it or not.

Vote Trump

59 posted on 04/25/2016 10:36:45 AM PDT by sargon (Continue insulting us with 24/7 anti-Trump diatribes and insults, your opus will be assumed.)
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To: RedWulf; All

How can YOU trust a man who was an extreme liberal ten months ago, but “changed” his mind in order to be president. That would be Donald Trump.

Folks, you gotta stop believing false promises that politicians make so they are elected.

TED CRUZ is the PROVEN candidate:

/“The Supreme Court has the opportunity to affirm our fundamental right to religious freedom,” Cruz said. “Time and time again, President Obama has granted exemptions to the politically powerful, yet refuses to grant the same leniency to those for whom Obamacare’s contraception mandate infringes on their beliefs. (snip)

Cruz is no stranger to the nation’s highest court. As the solicitor general of Texas, he found himself arguing some of the most consequential cases of the last decade. On his Senate webpage, he lists six cases that established “landmark national victories”:

U.S. sovereignty against the United Nations and the World Court in Medellin v. Texas;

The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms;

The constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument;

The constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance;

The constitutionality of the Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment law; and

The Texas congressional redistricting plan.
Cruz has filed more than 80 briefs in Supreme Court cases, including one defending Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties. Sens. John Cornyn (R–Texas), Mike Lee (R –Utah) and David Vitter (R–La.), also signed that amicus brief.

http://dailysignal.com/2014/03/25/ted-cruz-urges-supreme-court-stand-americans-first-amendment-rights/


60 posted on 04/25/2016 10:42:42 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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