I Like It!
Posted on 11/26/2016 6:22:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ORLANDO — Along the Interstate 4 corridor in the heart of Florida, the biggest swing region in the nation's biggest swing state, Donald Trump had a lot of backers.
Many of them kept their enthusiasm to themselves.
"I was guarded," Carol Foushi, a retired nurse, told a McClatchy reporter at the Millenia Mall in Orlando, a few miles from her home near Disney World. "People were passionate. They wanted Hillary; they wanted the first woman president. It was more for historic than for personal reasons."
Her husband, John Foushi, used gallows humor in explaining his vote for the New York billionaire over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"I didn't really get involved in the politics with the neighbors," he said. "It doesn't make sense — some of them have guns. Though Hillary was going to take them away."
Interviews with voters around Florida shed some light on one reason the pollsters and the pundits got the election wrong, both here and in the handful of other battleground states that decided the outcome: Trump had an invisible army of secret supporters who preferred not to voice their views to hostile friends and relatives....
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Leftists are bullies and worse. see tag:
They’re Soros Losers.
Pass it on.
For 2 months I wore my Red MAGA hat every day, here on the California coast.
I met a bunch of chicks and AFTER he was elected..?
People I didn’t even know came up to shake my hand (some black, some Mexican, too), and I wasn’t even wearing the hat —they REMEMBERED me...!
There are great people, everywhere.
I Like It!
Wow, if I had known wearing my MAGA hat would help me meet guys, I should have worn it more! I was afraid my kids would be ostracized in school!
Trump had an invisible army of secret supporters who preferred not to voice their views to hostile friends and relatives....>>> so true mostly at work. there were a few of us that would come to my office and talk reality. but we never ventured out into the bozosphere. one guy ragged out a friend of mine who hinted at voting for trump. and repeated the harrange in front of me in his office. i just sat there and let hm spew. i know how to keep my powder dry. and where to deploy.
I had to put up in my writers group with a guy who was constantly bringing articles he was writing about trump and how bad he is. he knew that trump had not been my first pick...
My first pick had been Scott walker who upon looking at his support base got out when he realized that he did not have a chance and to continue would probably do more damage then good for him.
I let him assume that I was not voting at all and three days after the election when we met he asked me who I voted for I said trump and he asked me how come. I told him as flawed a candidate as trump is his flaws are the same one that most people have and that I would never get a perfect choice. I then told him everything he had said about trump was actually the reality of Hillary. he had argued that trump was a fascist.
he then asked how come I was supportive us his writings and I told him that because most of them were an attack of the man not of his ideas that all he did was reinforce those that were avid supporters of Hillary. I told him that his articles actually did more damage to his candidate because they did not speak to anyone but her supporters and anyone reading it who was on the fence would of been put off by it so I did not mind helping in the editing process.
of course I live in California a state that has been so flooded with illegals and is home to the Hollywood liberals so there was no way his articles in the local paper were going to do anything as far as helping Clinton. the state was going to go demacrat no mater what.
The stealth voters I was talking about...
I grew up in Chino. I wouldn’t move back if they made me their king.
I live in the central valley. fairly conservative place but the rest of the state is liberal.
I live in the 1-4 corridor and felt free to share my Trump status with everyone. I am sure I flipped a few people. I have been at home for 22 yrs... since my first was born and feel no pressure from a job to keep quiet. Nobody puts a freeper in the corner LOL!
I confess to be one of the silent majority. I’m from Hillsborough County Florida (yesterday signed on again to free republic, last post was probably 2004, lurking since summer 2015, after the elevator ride in trump tower).
To give an example of how pervasive the bs was, a week before the election my company set the “holiday” party for January 20 - Inauguration Day. Believeing the media spin, and wanting to demoralize conservatives, someone planned a victory celebration for HRC. Total disaster (for them).
It was once in a lifetime type golden to decline the outlook invitation because we made (early nov 9) hotel and plane reservations for the inauguration in DC.
I’ve had the biggest grin in the office every day since. This I can tell you. Believe me.
I confess to be one of the silent majority. I’m from Hillsborough County Florida (yesterday signed on again to free republic, last post was probably 2004, lurking since summer 2015, after the elevator ride in trump tower).
To give an example of how pervasive the bs was, a week before the election my company set the “holiday” party for January 20 - Inauguration Day. Believeing the media spin, and wanting to demoralize conservatives, someone planned a victory celebration for HRC. Total disaster (for them).
It was once in a lifetime type golden to decline the outlook invitation because we made (early nov 9) hotel and plane reservations for the inauguration in DC.
I’ve had the biggest grin in the office every day since. This I can tell you. Believe me.
Last summer I was talking to a friend who has moved out of state and the election came up. I don’t remember what she said but I answered, “I’m for Trump and voted for him in the primary,” She said, “Oh thank God! I am too but was afraid to say.”
Excellent! Looked at your profile page and am delighted to see that we cite the same scripture reference. Bless you, Happyhomemaker!
Omgosh...that is so neat that we have the same scripture reference on our profile page. God just gave us a wink!
As a result, the left was totally sandbagged by the actual election results. Most of them still don't understand how a majority of voters in key states would prefer Donald Trump over a secretive, corrupt cranky old lesbian who was quite comfortable going to bed and getting a good night's sleep while four of her people were murdered - then working feverishly to cover up the reason the next morning.
First to vote on the eighth. Wore my I voted sticker to Thanksgiving dinner to rub my stoopidly relatives right.
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