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UW professor got it right on tRump...
So why is he being ignored?
By Danny Westneat
Seattle Times
A very good read!
http://www.seattletimes.com/author/danny-westneat/
*I read it in print edition so I do apologize if you are not able to read from this link.
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UW professor got it right on tRump... (Original Post)
Wawannabe
Jun 2017
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Arkansas Granny
(31,783 posts)1. Good article. Thanks for posting.
WhiteTara
(30,111 posts)2. Of course they didn't read it because
the author is black. Just like women are "shrill, bossy, etc" Black people are invisible.
One of the reasons I am now divorced. I am shrill and bossy!
Fuck
WhiteTara
(30,111 posts)5. So, you lost lots of ugly fat!
Keep going!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)4. Good read.
hedda_foil
(16,483 posts)6. This is really worth a read.
Parker has his suspicions about why hes been overlooked, which well get to in a minute. But first: He correctly foresaw in September 2015 that Trump would win the GOP nomination eight months before Trump clinched it.
Then, last September, Parker told anyone who would listen, which was not many, that Trump could well win the presidency. And now, most important, new research shows Parker was more than just prescient about the outcome. He was nearly alone in nailing why it would happen.
Its what the data showed and what history would suggest, so I didnt see it as some out-there guess, Parker shrugs now. It seemed like a no-brainer to me.
On Monday researchers released the most comprehensive survey data yet aimed at understanding what actually went down in Election 2016. The group includes academics but also right-leaning outlets such The Heritage Foundation and left-leaners like the Center for American Progress.
Whats different about the Voter Study Group is that it tracks the attitudes and votes of the same 8,000 adults since before the 2012 election, and then throughout the 2016 election. So its like the nations largest, longest political focus group.
The story weve told ourselves that working-class whites flocked to Trump due to job worries or free trade or economic populism is basically wrong, the research papers released this week suggest.
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They did flock to Trump. But the reason they did so in enough numbers for Trump to win wasnt anxiety about the economy. It was anxiety about Mexicans, Muslims and blacks.