Many Trump voters voted for Obama. Many are not racist. Some are. Not all. That's just the fact.

[Awsi Dooger]

93. Driving through small town America I can partially understand it

I drive from Miami to Las Vegas and back twice per year. Plus an annual trip up the east coast. Often I'll detour off the freeway for an hour or several.

So many main streets are shuttered and falling apart. Painful sights. I'm shocked when I come across one that looks okay.

People in those areas are prone to be suckered by a bullshit artist. Trump talked about job loss in Ohio in every debate. He may have specified Ohio but every rural area clutched the words as their own.

Obama left office with a huge chunk of the populous desperate for change. It was blatant in every pre-election poll and all the exit polls and post election polls. The bullshit artist was enabled by the right track/wrong track relationship being so lopsidedly negative, whether it made any sense to us or not.

Despite being elected twice by decent margin, I think we want to deny or forget that Obama's average approval rating as measured by Gallup was only 47.9%. And that translated into the share of the popular vote that Hillary received.