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smirkymonkey

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12. I don't think it's going to change the minds of his hard-core base and the
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 12:49 PM
Sep 2016

"republican no matter what" type of voter, but I do think it had an effect on many undecideds and independents. I am on a business trip and people are behaving themselves and not getting too political (my sense is that most of them lean republican - not rabid - but still solidly republican) but a lot of them, especially the women have been saying "I don't really care for Hillary, but I can't stand Trump, so I am voting AGAINST him more than I am voting for her". Or, "It's the lesser of two evils and that would be Hillary".

I'm pleasantly surprised that these people hate him so much. I really didn't expect it.

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