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Strange bedfellows: Donald Trump and the white working class
Reuters ^ | August 23, 2015 | Justin Gest

Posted on 08/23/2015 9:05:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump clearly prides himself in shunning focus-group research. He refuses big campaign donations that he asserts make his opponents beholden to special interests. He seems to target no specific constituency.

Many pollsters remain puzzled by Trump’s political appeal. “Republican support for Donald Trump just continues to grow,” said Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth Polling after its August survey, “with no clear sense of who his constituency really is.”

Yet a constituency is emerging. Trump’s strongest supporters, roughly a quarter of Republican voters across the polls, are not dissuaded by any increased media scrutiny of their candidate. They have overlooked a series of faux pas that might have tanked other candidates.

It appears, however, to be a constituency with whom he has barely interacted: white working-class voters. Their lives are far from the flight path of Trump’s private jet, as he zooms from golf course to grand hotel lobby, television sound stage to penthouse suite...

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; employmentrate; middleclass; newyork; obamarecession; obamataxhikes; taxcuts; taxreform; trump; unemployment; unemploymentrate; unenjoyment; whites; workingclass
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To: dragnet2

I just posted them.


41 posted on 08/23/2015 10:42:15 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

That’s not it.

I’ll find it. Some language accompanies the ugly truth.


42 posted on 08/23/2015 10:45:12 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ForYourChildren

http://kfor.com/2015/08/22/a-little-girl-is-dead-frustrated-moms-blacklivesmatter-facebook-rant-goes-viral/

If you don’t like rough language, don’t watch it.

She tells the truth.


43 posted on 08/23/2015 10:46:55 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ForYourChildren

Btw, see 38.


44 posted on 08/23/2015 10:49:23 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: gleeaikin

I’ve never seen his show The Apprentice (the original one, not Celebrity Apprentice). I am guessing he interacted with people from all walks of life in that show.


45 posted on 08/23/2015 10:51:48 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: dragnet2; 2ndDivisionVet; All

Not all black folk like what some do in Baltimore. I don’t know where the video is, but below you find a link for hundreds of Baltimore riot photos. The ones at top are for the most recent ones, but further down, start looking for the black mother dressed in yellow, smacking her son and dragging him out of that mess and chasing him home. I believe this is the one you mean. I counted a dozen photos before I got to the bottom and had not pushed the spot for “show more.” On the other hand near the top there is the black guy throwing a fence section wearing a black shirt with “black lives matter.” What a bad advertisement he is.

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+baltimore+riots&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCNqkieGBwccCFYWqgAodd80I2w


46 posted on 08/23/2015 10:53:36 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
I believe this is the one you mean

I was speaking in nation wide terms. It's why I said Baltimore etc. See link in 43. She talks of Ferguson and basically everywhere this happens like Chicago etc.

47 posted on 08/23/2015 11:01:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2; All

Yes, I see we are talking about two different women. But the mother in yellow got a lot of hits too.


48 posted on 08/23/2015 11:08:57 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Vision Thing; All

I am not referring to his TV shows I am talking about him visiting his construction sites to make sure the work is being done right, and that his managers are on schedule there.


49 posted on 08/23/2015 11:11:19 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump has the progressive sickos spinning like tops...


50 posted on 08/23/2015 11:11:29 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: dragnet2
If you don’t like rough language, don’t watch it.

She tells the truth

Her language was definitely salty, but yes, she tells the truth. It reminds me of the mother, who saw her son on TV, I think it was TV, and came down and proceeded to beat some sense into his rock hard head. She spoke the truth too.

51 posted on 08/23/2015 11:15:35 PM PDT by Mark17 (How could anyone suspend himself upon a cross and die for me, die willingly, to set us free.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I talked with a young man today - 37 - who has never voted. Said he is going to register next year so he can vote for Trump. They don’t know where his support is coming from because they are all interviewing each other.


52 posted on 08/23/2015 11:25:55 PM PDT by Catsrus (The Great Wall of Trump - coming to a southern border near you.)
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To: gleeaikin

That was my bad. My reply was somewhat of a non-sequiter to your post about Donald’s interactions with construction workers on his real estate projects.

My reply was supposed to add to yours by showing that Donald may have interacted with other working class people through his show ‘the apprentice’.

I failed to make a smooth transition between our posts.


53 posted on 08/23/2015 11:28:43 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The MSM is confused that working class Americans don’t see Trump as a silver spoon elitist like !Jeb! or Kerry - I think Trump’s decades of media exposure and ease of speaking his mind have made people feel very comfortable with him; I don’t think he comes across at all as being paternalistic or condescending.


54 posted on 08/23/2015 11:32:39 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Mark17

This is without all the nonsense Channel 4 advertising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXCZL2tYlw


55 posted on 08/24/2015 2:50:25 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Their lives are far from the flight path of Trump’s private jet, as he zooms from golf course to grand hotel lobby, television sound stage to penthouse suite.”

Private jet - who do they think built it?
Golf Courses - who do they think built them?
Hotel - who do they think built it?
Television Sound Stage - who do they think built it?
Penthouse suite - who do they think built it?

I know, I know, if in Texas today, virtually all Hispanics, legal and otherwise. But when and where most of his properties were built, mostly working class whites.


56 posted on 08/24/2015 3:21:09 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: uncitizen

“The race card.... agaaaaaaiiiin.....?”

Of course, but it WILL NOT work this time.

Nice to see Trump following my advice, though.


57 posted on 08/24/2015 3:21:59 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When one lives in the sludge at the bottom of the barrel, it's all they have to work with.

Where's "Nicky"?

58 posted on 08/24/2015 3:40:36 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
First, white working-class voters have proven increasingly unpredictable and unfaithful to any single party. It should not be surprising that they tend to live in many of the most prominent swing states, including Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Their fickle nature is not indecisiveness, but rather the sense that neither party has done much for them over the past 40 years. The Rust Belt population has confronted post-industrial economic collapse and depopulation. It is fed up with Washington, and cynical about politicians who pledge to address its plight.

We are not fickle but we are fed up with Washington types that make and break promises with regularity.

59 posted on 08/24/2015 3:42:37 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Tupelo

Lou Dobbs doesn’t allow any Cruz news on his show.

That’s when I stopped watching him.


60 posted on 08/24/2015 3:54:24 AM PDT by Maris Crane (.)
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