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mobeau69

(11,079 posts)
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 07:17 AM Nov 2018

Trumbull County, Ohio, shifted 30 points to vote Trump. That didn't save its car plant.

The story of the 2016 presidential election, to some extent, can be told by what happened in Trumbull County, Ohio.

In 2012, the state voted narrowly for Barack Obama. When Ohio was called for Obama on election night, his reelection was all but ensured. But four years later, the state backed Republican Donald Trump by eight points. That was in part because of shifts in places such as Trumbull, a perfectly square county near Youngstown. Obama won Trumbull by 23 points. Trump won it by more than six.

Why? In part because Trump’s pitch was tailored very specifically to places like Trumbull County....

“That Carrier situation, where he was very outspoken and then even seemed to get a positive result — before he was even president of the United States,” she said, “I think people pointed to that and thought, ‘You know, if we get into this situation, President Trump will do the same thing.’ We have not seen that."

“They may not blame Trump for it closing specifically,” she added, “but they will blame him for not saving it.” Blame him in the 2020 election, that is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/26/trumbull-county-ohio-shifted-points-vote-trump-it-didnt-save-its-car-plant/?utm_term=.0f53edc70840

Trump voters in Ohio will not want to read the comments on this article. Most are insightfully brutal.

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Trumbull County, Ohio, shifted 30 points to vote Trump. That didn't save its car plant. (Original Post) mobeau69 Nov 2018 OP
Oh well thoughts and prayers . There i fixed it Fullduplexxx Nov 2018 #1
Serves them right, for entrusting their wellbeing to trump. (nt) Paladin Nov 2018 #2
These jobs were likely doomed regardless of who won the election but it was the con mobeau69 Nov 2018 #3
Any working man that votes Republican is a fucking idiot!! oldlibdem Nov 2018 #4
idiots... Blue_Tires Nov 2018 #5

mobeau69

(11,079 posts)
3. These jobs were likely doomed regardless of who won the election but it was the con
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 11:00 AM
Nov 2018

who fooled them into believeing he would save them. Of course the tariffs on steel and aluminum likely sped up their demise. The workers were fearful and the con used that fear for his own benefit.

Just like the miners in WV. Hillary told them the inconvenient truth and they punished her at the polls.

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