Posted on 05/21/2017 10:37:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. — Looking back, the sign-stealers were a portent of sorts, an early indication that 2016 would be like no election in recent memory.
While it is not uncommon for people to steal campaign signs from other people's lawns in the heat of an election campaign, normally people confiscate the signs of candidates they oppose.
But something quite different happened in Robeson County, N.C., as Donald Trump started to gain traction in the presidential campaign. As Bo Biggs, treasurer of the county's Republican Party, tells it, "People were stealing [Trump] signs to put them in their own yard."
Trump won North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes by claiming seven rural counties that had voted for Barack Obama in 2012. Among them was Robeson County, the state's largest county, and one of its poorest and most violent.
An easy explanation of Robeson County's transition from blue to red focuses on economic stagnation and cultural despair. But from another vantage point, one my brother Jordan Allott and I saw during a recent visit to the county, Trump's 5-point victory had more to do with his ability to tap into the same desire for hope and change that Obama retained in an 18-point victory four years earlier....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Hope for what? Change to what?
Obama’s hope and change was nothing. Vapor. Hot air. His few accomolishments are those of a drug pusher. He is a vile man surrounded by evil people.
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