Posted on 01/17/2018 10:10:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Miami is a town in the Texas panhandle where everyone knows everyone at the grocery store and servers at the local diner know who likes what kind of pie with their chicken fried steak.
Roberts County, where Miami is the only incorporated community, was dubbed the “most pro-Trump county in America” after national voting records showed it had the highest percentage -- more than 95 percent -- of Trump voters.
Of the 550 who voted in the county, 524 went for President Donald Trump. Trying to name people who voted for Hillary Clinton turned into a local guessing game, and none of the suspected Clinton supporters whom ABC News contacted were willing to talk about their vote.
But a handful of Trump voters and local residents spoke with ABC News and agreed to be interviewed over the course of the first year of the Trump administration. Why? Because ABC News wanted to learn and observe: What issues mattered most to their lives, and how -- if at all -- their initial impressions of Trump evolved a year into his presidency.
Steve Porter was drawn to Trump for his character, citing taxes and immigration as equally important issues he wanted to see improved.
One person who Porter said didn’t fit that description was Hillary Clinton. Her unpopularity came up repeatedly in conversations with Roberts County voters over the course of the year, and the Porters made sure their distaste for Clinton was passed down in their household to their miniature Australian shepherd named Buddy, whom they taught to bark like mad whenever he heard the name “Hillary.”
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“Trying to name people who voted for Hillary Clinton turned into a local guessing game”
...just look for wiry white hair, birks, Subarus, Volvos or Prius’ etc.
Check the cemetery for voters...lol
I know Miami Texas well. Just down the road from Fritch.
The Ministry of Propaganda had to pay 4 people it was so long.
Why did they limit the death tax elimination to just 2025? It is wrong for figment to pick winners and losers that way.
Democrats are on the march in TX in 2018 and expect to unseat TCruz and possibly Governor Abbott. No, they won’t campaign in Roberts County.
Show the other 26 where the city line is...
Nobody like that in miami, texas.
I can’t comment because I’ve been perma-banned by ABC.
Only way to get CBO approval and stay within reconciliation guidelines. Same as with personal tax cuts. GOP will push permanent extension.
OK, thanks. GOP better be around or it all just goes away then?
Nobody has the guts or the will to do a major reform and simplificaiton and put the feral gubment on a serious budget diet. A simple fixed amount of the GDP. In my opinion it should never exceed 15% but I’d settle for 18%. Much less than it consumes now. The feral gubment is just overhead and only intended to provide essential services. I have a dream.
It will be very hard to get democrats to not renew the tax cuts on individuals. If the corporate rate expired they would not renew it
“Democrats are on the march in TX in 2018 and expect to unseat TCruz and possibly Governor Abbott.”
Yea, by running Loopy Valdez, the lesbo sheriff of Dallas county against Gov Abbott! That has a great chance of success, NOT!!
Why is lesbian supposed to be a great qualifier for law enforcement leadership? It’s ridiculous!
In a horse race somebody always wins.
One of the huge problems in this country is instability. Some things need to remain the same today and tomorrow. Taxes and the business environment fall in to that category.
This is just bizarre. ABC News wanted to “learn and observe”.
Learn and observe what? Normal human beings in their every day environment? They are so freaking out of touch it’s amazing they say the can still generate a profit.
ABC Fake News Spinning against Trump in Trump Territory. So Predictable.
Didn’t think so.
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