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In reply to the discussion: Bastard made grown men cry in Michigan [View all]OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)9. Congrats, Lordstown.
Trumbull County, Ohio, shifted 30 points to vote Trump. That didnt 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 Trumps pitch was tailored very specifically to places like Trumbull County.
I went to high school there, alongside a number of kids whose parents worked at the Lordstown automotive plant. If the story of nearby Youngstown tracked with the steel industry, the story of Warren (Trumbulls county seat) at that time was about how Lordstown was faring. Trumps promise to bolster blue-collar manufacturing was exactly the sort of thing that would resonate in the area, a place no longer as dependent on manufacturing as it had been but a place still more dependent on it than others. I mean, this was the district once represented by former congressman Jim Traficant (D), a pre-Trump Trump.
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 Trumps pitch was tailored very specifically to places like Trumbull County.
I went to high school there, alongside a number of kids whose parents worked at the Lordstown automotive plant. If the story of nearby Youngstown tracked with the steel industry, the story of Warren (Trumbulls county seat) at that time was about how Lordstown was faring. Trumps promise to bolster blue-collar manufacturing was exactly the sort of thing that would resonate in the area, a place no longer as dependent on manufacturing as it had been but a place still more dependent on it than others. I mean, this was the district once represented by former congressman Jim Traficant (D), a pre-Trump Trump.
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But our media doesn't report on the effect of the tariffs enough. It needs to be repeated & repeated
iluvtennis
Nov 2018
#13
Wanting SUVs and trucks won't be the buzz for long with gas prices going up. When gas was in the
iluvtennis
Nov 2018
#35
Probably close to 100k jobs lost when u figure in all the suppliers and cottage businesses.
roamer65
Nov 2018
#8
Elections have consequences, like job killing tariffs. Don't vote for Republicans Michigan.
TeamPooka
Nov 2018
#4
Yeah, everything Trump said was bullshit. But I can understand how they would believe him, kind of.
rusty quoin
Nov 2018
#11
But in the end with farmers plowing their crops back under, all those people losing their jobs ....
Botany
Nov 2018
#14
Most who voted for Trump in 2016 will vote for him again if he's on the ballot in 2020.
Garrett78
Nov 2018
#17
If this was the first time maybe I could sympathize, but they did the same thing voting for Reagan,
still_one
Nov 2018
#26
Maybe they should've exercised critical thinking and reasoned that he was full of shit.
NightWatcher
Nov 2018
#25