How would Repubs have voted if DJT had been (D) and Hillary (R)?

[CurtEastPoint]

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	They would have supported the Republican candidate and voted for Hillary.
	3 (75%)
	They would have supported the right-wing conservative candidate and voted for DJT.
	1 (25%)
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[RKP5637]

1. Hard to answer, I've always wondered about that too, it would make an interesting study. n/t

[CurtEastPoint]

7. I agree. I was just noodling over this this morning driving in and thought I'd offer it up.

[Flavius Aetius]

2. I live in Michigan

I am union and my entire family is union and mostly conservative Democrats with a few with a more liberal bent. None of my family as far as i know have never voted Republican, until now and they all voted for Trump, i was the only Hillary voter. If Trump would have ran as a Democrat with same message they still would have voted for him.

[RKP5637]

3. He ran a strong message on jobs and I think that's what really swayed a lot of people toward him.

[Flavius Aetius]

5. Being conservative Democrats for the most part

Bread and butter table issues is front and center. A few other things added to that to tip the scales and they went all in for Trump. I think he is full of shit but if he is able to do some of what he says he is going to do and they believe he is trying on the rest then we will play hell moving these people back to our side and will loose more.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Hmm... tough call. If the platforms of the parties stayed the same...

... I suspect that Hillary running on a "pro life" platform would have done far better among evangelical white voters.

Those voters even forgave Bush Sr.'s former pro-choice beliefs once he flipped.

Carter won rural Southern voters in 1976, probably because he wore his religion on his sleeve. It was a different story just four years later.

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/25/jimmy_carters_evangelical_downfall_reagan_religion_and_the_1980_presidential_election/

By early summer, according to Robert Maddox, the White House liaison to the religious community, “all kinds of anti–Jimmy Carter/pro-Reagan pieces of literature were being cranked out and mailed all over the country, supposedly bipartisan but always painting Reagan as the paragon of Christian virtue and Jimmy Carter as kind of the antichrist.” The Reagan campaign took a brief hit when George H. W. Bush, a pro-choice Republican, was chosen for vice president. After an extended flirtation with Gerald R. Ford, Reagan selected Bush, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Reagan’s rival for the Republican presidential nomination, as his running mate. Bush immediately repented of his pro-choice views and pledged fidelity to the Republican platform, which, in a departure from 1976—and one that signaled shifting political sentiments—condemned both abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment.

[geek tragedy]

6. what if C-A-T spelled "dog?"

On what planet does a white nationalist, anti-choice, pro-tax cuts for the rich, pro-pollution, anti-science, know-nothing demagogue become the Democratic nominee for President?

[CurtEastPoint]

8. DJT was a Dem until not that long ago. I hear you. It's just for pondering.

[geek tragedy]

9. the hypothetical I ponder is a little different:

If Trump had sought, and won, the Democratic nomination in 2008 (let's assume Obama decided not to run) based on his condemnation of the Iraq war and anti-trade stance, would Democrats have lined up behind him the way Republicans did in 2016?