[needmorePaine]

Across middle America, in the vast territories where this election will be decided, away from the country’s narrow sophistication belts, many people are happy to believe the worst conspiracy stories about any member of the Clinton family.

No elitism here.

[pabianice]

The “elite, sophisticated coastal belts” are ten miles deep and ten feet wide. Go west of Boston 40 miles and you enter the territory of real Americans who believe in the Constitution, and leave the territory of the permanently-aggrieved, onion-shaped, 80-IQ, gun-grabbing, hatred-filled flag burners.