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portlander23

(2,078 posts)
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:13 PM Dec 2016

Hillary Clinton Really Shouldnt Have Told Voters That Trump Wasnt a Normal Republican

Hillary Clinton Really Shouldn’t Have Told Voters That Trump Wasn’t a Normal Republican
Eric Levitz
New York Magazine

After all, throughout the Republican primary, Trump had branded himself as a nationalist unconstrained by fealty to conservative dogma. At various points, he feigned openness to raising taxes on plutocrats and increasing the minimum wage — a heresy he explained by declaring, “I’m very different from most Republicans.”

A considerable amount of Clinton’s paid media was devoted to affirming this claim.

And a growing body of evidence suggests this was a bad mistake.

This notion — that Donald Trump does not share Paul Ryan’s ideology — was indispensable to the former’s victory: Trump simply could not have won without the support of white Democrats who have little affection for GOP orthodoxy.

Synthesizing data from voting returns, exit polls, the census, and preelection polling, the Upshot’s Nate Cohn concludes that Clinton did not lose because Rust Belt Democrats stayed at home, but rather, because they voted for Trump in large numbers.

Many of these voters were Obama supporters in 2008 and 2012 — in fact, 19 percent of white working-class Trump voters said they approved of Obama’s performance on November 8 of 2016. Ten percent of these voters told exit pollsters that they wanted Trump to continue Obama’s policies, while 38 percent said they hoped he would pursue policies that were “more liberal” than Obama’s.

But the fact remains: Clinton lost the White House because a bunch of white Democrats who despise most of the GOP agenda — but like the cut of Trump’s jib — decided to cross the aisle.

Some of these voters may learn that Trump is a regular Republican the hard way — by losing access to their health care or local Planned Parenthood. But many will not.


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Hillary Clinton Really Shouldnt Have Told Voters That Trump Wasnt a Normal Republican (Original Post) portlander23 Dec 2016 OP
A Non·sen·si·cal Article Me. Dec 2016 #1
Right. She should have totally told them he's a great guy. kcr Dec 2016 #2
That's what you got out of this article? YoungDemCA Dec 2016 #3
Blah blah fucking blah. Give it a rest already. Let's talk about what Bernie, Comey and the Media JTFrog Dec 2016 #4

kcr

(15,522 posts)
2. Right. She should have totally told them he's a great guy.
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 11:04 PM
Dec 2016

And would make a wonderful president, and normalized that pussy grabbing. No way you guys would have made an issue out of that.

 

JTFrog

(14,274 posts)
4. Blah blah fucking blah. Give it a rest already. Let's talk about what Bernie, Comey and the Media
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 12:31 PM
Dec 2016

should have done. Let's talk about the fuckers who sat in a room and decided to squelch information about Trump and Russia yet release fake news about Hillary.

Those are the only fucking valid issues at this point.

If I see one more fucking post about what Hillary should have done to win by more than the 3 million votes she won by, I am just going to lose it.

Just fucking give it a rest.

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