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Stumped by Trump’s success? Take a drive outside US cities
New York Post ^ | 8/23/16 | Salena Zito

Posted on 08/23/2016 3:48:46 PM PDT by Nachum

If you drive anywhere in Pennsylvania, from the turnpike to the old US routes to the dirt roads connecting small towns like Hooversville with “bigger” small towns like Somerset, you might conclude that Donald Trump is ahead in this state by double digits.

Large signs, small signs, homemade signs, signs that wrap around barns, signs that go from one end of a fence to another dot the landscape with such frequency that, if you were playing the old-fashioned road-trip game of counting cows, you would hit 100 in just one small town like this one.

In Ruffsdale, I am pretty sure I saw more than 100 Trump signs.

It’s as if people here have not turned on the television to hear pundits drone on and on about how badly Trump is losing in Pennsylvania.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
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1 posted on 08/23/2016 3:48:46 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

The “backbone” of America is voting TRUMP!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 08/23/2016 3:51:17 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Nachum

This was already posted

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3462260/posts

but it deserves a second post. Great piece by a rare bird—a good reporter.


3 posted on 08/23/2016 3:54:29 PM PDT by Huck (This is my opinion. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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To: JBW1949

Salena Zito gets it. She lives right here in SW PA and what she says is spot on.


4 posted on 08/23/2016 3:55:53 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Nachum

THE MONSTER VOTE that will be the tsunami of 2016 that historians will look back on as the day AMERICA woke up from its SOCIALIST nightmare and started to become what the FOUNDERS intended...amen!


5 posted on 08/23/2016 3:56:24 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Nachum

fl


6 posted on 08/23/2016 3:56:58 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (A Christian is as a Christian does - "By their works...")
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To: Nachum

Hopefully “flyover country” will finally get it’s representation.


7 posted on 08/23/2016 4:04:53 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Nachum
"I’ve found that Trump’s support across the ideological spectrum remains strong. Democrats, Republicans, independents, people who have not voted in presidential elections for years — they have not wavered in their support."

And that, in a nutshell, is why I think Trump can win.

8 posted on 08/23/2016 4:09:08 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Nachum

Bump....


9 posted on 08/23/2016 4:11:47 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Nachum

All I usually believe in is the election day votes.

But this caught me by surprise.

My wife does surveys online for amazon gift cards, etc., and there was a poll among the survey takers, who I figured where college kids and women, on who they wanted for president. It was TWO to ONE in favor of TRUMP.

Even though other loopy questions were 2 to 1 in favor of the left wing choice.

That tells me something.


10 posted on 08/23/2016 4:12:35 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Here’s an extremely detailed analysis of the potential PA vote. The highlights are that “Biden Country” (NE PA) is turning into “Trumpland”, and Pittsburgh plus its suburbs are becoming very much more “red” than Philadelphia plus its suburbs are becoming more “blue”. That’s the path for PA becoming a narrow win for Trump.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438269/donald-trump-pennsylvania-path-white-house


11 posted on 08/23/2016 4:18:23 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Thanks for that link .. have it bookmarked.


12 posted on 08/23/2016 4:21:39 PM PDT by tomkat (.gov is freedom's greatest enemy)
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To: Nachum

” ...to the old US routes to the dirt roads connecting small towns like Hooversville”

-—When I first read this I thought it said “Hooterville” lol


13 posted on 08/23/2016 4:22:48 PM PDT by MichelleWSC3
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

<FROM YOUR POST TO EVERY ONES’ EARS AND DREAMS!


14 posted on 08/23/2016 4:24:10 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Nachum

I recently drove all over rural NY and noticed Trump signs everywhere, but not a single sign for Hillary. I also noticed a surprising lack of prosperity.


15 posted on 08/23/2016 4:28:02 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: Nachum

We all need to remember this for when Hillary tries to steal the election. In a fair election Trump wins in an absolute landslide, maybe even biggest if all time.

I live in CA, Sacramento area, and honestly cannot remember seeing any Hillary stickers/signs.


16 posted on 08/23/2016 4:30:44 PM PDT by walkingdead (It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
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To: MichelleWSC3
When I first read this I thought it said “Hooterville” lol

FWIW, Lakeland, FL's main sponsor in the 1920s Florida land rush was a man named Julius T. Horney; the side road to get to the Tigers spring training camp there is named Julius T. Horney Dr.

In return, the townspeople offered to name the town after him, Horneytown. To the relief of many future generations, his humility would not allow it, so it became Lakeland instead--but one of the lakes is named Lake Horney to this day, though there is a petition to change the name because of its titillating effect.

17 posted on 08/23/2016 4:31:40 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Get out the vote! There has to be such a huge margin that the fraud can’t overcome the true vote.


18 posted on 08/23/2016 4:34:52 PM PDT by TrueFact ("Satan wins when the conscience is numbed")
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To: Nachum

The problem is the Philly precincts with 115% turnout that vote 100% Dem.


19 posted on 08/23/2016 4:46:42 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Nachum
Urban-centrism in poly-ticks never changes. They are always shocked when the Nixons, the Reagans, the Trumps win.

'Journalist' "Pauline Kael famously commented, after the 1972 Presidential election: ‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken...'" You dang right they're beyond your ken. They're outside of the bloodsucker-filled, Democrat-controlled, crime-infested big cities.

20 posted on 08/23/2016 4:49:06 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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