Presidential voters remorse? Not in the Trumpiest county in Missouri

[pstokely]

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Outside rural settings, the president’s approval ratings continue to be sluggish.

Recent Gallup polling tracked a 7-point drop among Americans overall who think Trump can bring about the change the country needs, from 53 percent to 46 percent. A 17-point drop between February and mid-April was found in the percentage of Americans who think Trump keeps his promises, from 62 percent to 45 percent, with an 11-point decline among Republicans.

The New York Times last week suggested otherwise when it examined a congressional district outside Philadelphia and concluded, “In a swing state, Trump backers turn impatient.”

GOP pollster Neil Newhouse of Virginia-based Public Opinion Strategies questions that. If impatience might be sensed in some swing-voting suburbs, at least in small-town USA, “Trump voters are not backing away,” he said. “If anything, they are doubling down.”
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Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article146719754.html

[WhiteTara]

1. I think this is the take away...

Even with the tweets? “I like to read them,” Holt said. “The Democratic news media doesn’t like them. But anything they don’t like is something I like.”

[geek tragedy]

2. the sooner that the culture of small town and rural America disappears, the better

off the planet will be.

Not once in the past 100 years has any idea that helped humanity originated in the hinterlands.

they're an anchor tied around the civilized parts of the country.

[uponit7771]

3. Very narrow political input in that area

[gordianot]

4. Typical but they seem to me have doubts.

When they get all defensive about no college and having common sense be certain they have neither. I would be willing to bet one generation past their parents understood much more about their self interest than their children.

[mnhtnbb]

5. We lived in Missouri for 6 years in one of the only towns that had a newspaper endorse Trump:

St. Joseph. Anybody with brains got out.

We also lived in Nebraska for 6 years and when we left I said the state motto should be "Ignorant and proud of it".
(Apologies to Omaha Steve).


People have to understand that the psychological concept of cognitive dissonance is at play here: people
are uncomfortable admitting they are wrong because it might mean they need to change or that they might
have been duped. And boy, were people duped. Trump pulled a very successful con even while people
were being warned that they were being conned.

It really does not bode well for the country.