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Bill Clinton takes a nostalgia tour through working-class Ohio and finds a rash of Trump signs
Boston Globe ^ | Oct. 5, 2016 | By Annie Linskey

Posted on 10/05/2016 6:16:09 PM PDT by Innovative

Clinton took his legendary campaign skills on a tour this week through Mahoning Valley, hustling for small bunches of votes in tiny towns heavily populated with white Ohioans with relatively low levels of education and modest incomes.

In other words, in this election, Donald Trump country.

These are the voters Clinton won in 1992 and 1996, but who voted Republican in later years. As his bus rolled down two-lane roads and through towns with just a few stoplights but plenty of Trump signs, the trip was one part nostalgia tour, one part policy lecture, one part desperate bid to get his wife elected.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2016swingstates; clinton; election; oh2016; rustbelt; trump; x42
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Excellent. I just hope it will all translate into actual votes for Trump.

"Make America Great Again!"

1 posted on 10/05/2016 6:16:09 PM PDT by Innovative
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“These are the voters Clinton won in 1992 and 1996, but who voted Republican in later years.”

That thar’s your LEGACY, you disgusting pig! And we want NOTHING to do with your wife, either!


2 posted on 10/05/2016 6:18:45 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Innovative

The MSM are elitist pigs.


3 posted on 10/05/2016 6:18:49 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Innovative

A “rash” of Trump signs?

Nope. No bias there.


4 posted on 10/05/2016 6:18:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Innovative

What a condescending first two paragraphs. Dear Lord, let the little folks have the last laugh on these arrogant people.


5 posted on 10/05/2016 6:19:33 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Innovative

I keep saying that the only one in the Clinton camp who thinks she will win is her. The entire Clinton campaign is just a massive money grab. Winning is secondary. The Slickster knows that.


6 posted on 10/05/2016 6:20:04 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Innovative
How come the media isn't pointing out that Clinton in 1992 went after the very same working-class whites that Trump is getting now. Clinton even distanced himself from people like Jesse Jackson, who wanted him to run as a traditional Democrat pandering to blacks and other left-wing special interest groups.

Bill Clinton did none of those things. He presented himself, albeit falsely, as a "New Democrat", meaning he was on the side of law-and-order, strong economy, and keeping America safe.

So where is the media pointing out this hypocrisy?

7 posted on 10/05/2016 6:21:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (TRUMP THAT BEYOTCH!)
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A big, huge, beautiful rash! Not like the one on Bubba’s genitals.


8 posted on 10/05/2016 6:21:14 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: Innovative

Trump has the mo and is leading in the polls. The Boston Globe confirms this when it states that Bill is making a desperate attempt to get his wife elected. The Clinton campaign is in trouble and the MSM knows it.


9 posted on 10/05/2016 6:21:32 PM PDT by freedom1st
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To: Innovative

Dear Bill,
despite all your failures, many poeple would have considered voting for you STILL

but NOT Mrs. Clinton. TOO Corrupt, lies to us TOO often.

NO WAY!


10 posted on 10/05/2016 6:22:32 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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He presented himself, albeit falsely, as a "New Democrat", meaning he was on the side of law-and-order, strong economy, and keeping America safe.

Indeed he did! Worth remembering.

11 posted on 10/05/2016 6:24:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Innovative
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Bill Clinton takes a nostalgia tour through working-class Ohio

"I went back to Ohio.....and my city was gone."

12 posted on 10/05/2016 6:24:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Like Bubba’s not the one known for rashes.


13 posted on 10/05/2016 6:26:47 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (G.K. Chesterton — 'A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.')
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LOL.

I can imagine a better collective for both:

an intrusion (rats) of Clinton signs
a skulk (skunks) of Clinton signs
a plague (doves) of clinton signs
a murder (crows) of Clinton signs

A flamboyance (flamingos) of Trump signs
A tower (Giraffes) of Trump signs

OK, Mr. Dunphy( 8th grade English teacher) how did I do?

14 posted on 10/05/2016 6:32:24 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (She calls me Mr. Deplorable.)
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To: StAntKnee
Truly. Calling Trump's base poor, stupid White trash.

Well, I'm a Redneck and proud of it!

15 posted on 10/05/2016 6:33:31 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Innovative

I’d say Clinton had one MAJOR REALITY CHECK.


16 posted on 10/05/2016 6:33:38 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: dfwgator

The El Rushbo tweak did not go unnoticed.

Horndog Billy in a sea of Trump signs, it is to laugh.

;^)


17 posted on 10/05/2016 6:33:40 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Innovative

[FLASHBACK] New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/business/media/new-york-times-company-sells-boston-globe.html

“AUG. 3, 2013

“The New York Times Company, in its latest move to shed assets and focus more on its core brand, has agreed to sell The Boston Globe and its other New England media properties to John W. Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox.

“The sale, for $70 million, would return the paper to local ownership after two decades in which it struggled to stem the decline in circulation and revenue. The price would represent a staggering drop in value for The Globe, which The Times bought in 1993 for $1.1 billion, among the highest prices paid for an American newspaper.

“At the time, The Globe was one of the nation’s most prestigious papers in a far more robust newspaper environment. But like other newspapers, it began to lose readers and advertisers to the Internet, and revenue plummeted. The Times Company has taken several write-downs related to the New England Media Group, and in February it said it was putting The Globe and other assets in the group up for sale.”


18 posted on 10/05/2016 6:33:46 PM PDT by bryan999
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To: BenLurkin; Extremely Extreme Extremist

You are right!

Sister Soulja, IIRC. ( sorry if I I misspelled her name)


19 posted on 10/05/2016 6:38:41 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump, said on 9-28: Hillary 'will put the Oval Office up for sale')
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To: Innovative

Eye-Haw!!! Get your Granny and your Auntie June and the young ‘uns and ride that Trump train to the polls on Election Day!

Honestly, the NYSlimes and the Boston Glob are terrified of Americans in the heartland and the South. Why don’t they move to Europe where they can be happy Socialists? Believe me, they would not be missed.


20 posted on 10/05/2016 6:39:20 PM PDT by txrefugee
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