Posted on 11/26/2019 3:16:54 PM PST by Bigtigermike
Two-thirds of battleground state voters who chose Trump in 2016 but selected Democrats in the midterms say they will return to the president next year.
Midterm victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin gave Democrats hope of retaking the Rust Belt battleground states that handed the presidency to Donald J. Trump in 2016.
Yet success in the midterms might not mean as much for Democratic presidential candidates as the party might think. Nearly two-thirds of voters in six battleground states who voted for President Trump in 2016 but for Democratic congressional candidates in 2018 say they intend to back the president against each of his top rivals, according to recent polling by The New York Times Upshot/Siena College.
The results suggest that the partys winning formula in last years midterms may not be so easy to replicate in a presidential election. The Democrats relatively moderate House candidates succeeded in large part by flipping a crucial segment of voters who backed the president in 2016. If these voters remain open-minded again in 2020, Democrats will have a ready-made blueprint for winning back the crucial Rust Belt battlegrounds.
This group is only a sliver of the electorate 2 percent of registered voters and is not representative of all voters. They are overwhelmingly white, 60 percent are male, and two-thirds have no college degree. But the presidents strength among them helps explain why he is highly competitive in states that Democrats carried just one year ago.
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So, 1/3rd of Trump’s 2016 battleground voters who voted DEM in 2018 won’t be voting for him in 2020. Can’t say I see this as a positive.
My In-laws...... they are the only ones in the family still a Dem.... FIL thinks Germany is great. I told him to move there.
If you’ll delete all your NYT cookies, that threat will disappear. It does for me.
You must be in the fake new business
It is ridiculous when they talk about the education levels of those opposing the Bolsheviks in this country, when you consider the education levels of the permanent urban underclass. Never mind “college degrees”; much of the Democrat base wouldn’t graduate elementary school without social promotion. Dems ride to power on the backs of an illiterate, envious mob, then mock the intelligence/education of those who oppose them.
Yes and there’s nothing that says education equals intelligence, knowledge, or ability to think rationally. Especially considering what a lot of them are majoring in today.
No CatFeces read the article again
NYT
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Yah! DUH?
Trump is in ZERO danger of losing any state he took in 16....
He’ll win them all by far larger margins.
The left can’t pretend that the clown car of candidates they have to offer, combined with the absolute booming economy provides any real chance of Trump not being re-elected.
Oh sure some will delude themselves, and the press will play it up as a nailbiter, even though it has no shot as being so... but they aren’t going to be as stupid as they were in 16, and kneel down and swallow the DNC talking points phallus like complete whores.
The FBI needs to seed voter roles in tight swing districts with fake names... so if someone 'votes' the non-existent people the FBI can swing in, shut down the vote and call for a re-vote.
Of course this is dependent on the FBI NOT being a bunch of thug democrat operatives.
Im just shocked theyre writing things favorable to Trump.
So true, but they attack the education level itself - as though urban gibsmedats are PhDs...
“Im just shocked theyre writing things favorable to Trump.”
We are probably not the only surprised ones.:)
An article that says Democrats will be voting for Trump? Who are you and what did you do with the real NY Times?
...watch his amazing accomplishments....
THAT is what they DON’T DO! They don’t care.
Perhaps they’ll vote for a GOP candidate who is more populist like Trump, Reagan or dare I say George Wallace but they won’t be voting for the typical effeminate prevaricator the GOP runs. Many of those voters also voted for Reagan.
You, sir, are a well-informed poster.
It amazes me how many Republican cheerleaders here have no clue about what the average GOP candidate represents to the average voter.
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