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In reply to the discussion: They Voted for Trump. Here's How They Feel About High Gas Prices. [View all]AZLD4Candidate
(7,015 posts)"No one in this world, so far as I know and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
Or, as I put it:
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American voter. They either vote against their self-interests because of reasons, or they say "well, things went well under the Democrat so let's give the Republicans a try," or they say "The Democrats didn't do everything I want so, screw them, I'm going Republican. The undecided voter is as much a myth as the independent voter. They stay to the rear of everything, see who the front-runner is, and vote that way, so while those committed to something might go down, they remain afloat.