Thanks to all who have responded. Many great responses!
It's just damned frustrating, because we should have this in the bag. I am not looking forward to the immediate future. I think the ugliness is going to get worse every day.
I think rural voters are really scared of people different than themselves, and it takes real guts to go against the grain. They want a return to the "Leave it to Beaver" days. The land of white heterosexual Christian males is the only acceptable one to them. I lost a progressive brother to cancer last year who drove me nuts because he voted for Jill Stein, and I have a living Trump supporter brother who recently moved to rural Colorado. (this brother was once a Jesse Jackson delegate and knocked on doors for him...what happened is Clinton declared new wilderness areas, and this brother was no longer able to access via 4-wheeling what he had in the past...instant Republican, who now looks at GWB as a "damned libtard"
Based upon a recent visit, I think Trump will carry rural America by a lot more than 60/40...more like 85/15. It's racism and fear and "traditional values" if nobody looks too closely.
The young need to get over themselves per only voting for perfection. I am a progressive myself and I know I'll never get everything I want, so I/we deal with it, and vote out the orange monster. Register and vote. ASAP.
Go Joe/Kamala and all Democrat senate candidates ! We must turn around this (now) f'd up country before it's too late. There's still hope, but it's not going to be a smooth transition even if we win. If we lose, here comes 1938 Germany, I hate to say.
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