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16. Yes, thank you!

Reply to DallasNE (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 10:56 PM

Dec 2016

The REAL working class voted mostly for Clinton.

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Here's the thing about our party eating their hearts out about not appealing to the working-class [View all] bigtree Dec 2016 OP

So, people with irrational, ignorant fear of the 'other' pangaia Dec 2016 #1

right bigtree Dec 2016 #2

I really don't know what the answer is at this point. pangaia Dec 2016 #4

Not really Bear Creek Dec 2016 #3

Exit polls portlander23 Dec 2016 #5

'Barack Obama's result' bigtree Dec 2016 #7

Yes Obama turned out more black voters and Trump tapped into racism portlander23 Dec 2016 #8

Barack Obama was a unique phenom in politics bigtree Dec 2016 #9

Sure portlander23 Dec 2016 #10

well bigtree Dec 2016 #13

Again, the exit polls portlander23 Dec 2016 #14

I don't think that's true bigtree Dec 2016 #15

The Numbers: How Hillary Clinton Lost portlander23 Dec 2016 #17

you're back to making broad assumptions from overall turnout bigtree Dec 2016 #19

Nope portlander23 Dec 2016 #20

it's just not suprising to me at all that Hillary was less popular than Barack Obama bigtree Dec 2016 #21

Agree. Also, 1) at the current count per Cookpolitical.com, she has almost as many votes as Obama spooky3 Dec 2016 #22

No one is denying misogyny or racism portlander23 Dec 2016 #24

If you look at other threads posted here, you will see substantial evidence that the economic issues spooky3 Dec 2016 #26

Sure portlander23 Dec 2016 #30

the problem I have with restricting discussion of postmortem bigtree Dec 2016 #29

We don't need to make assumptions, we have the exit polls portlander23 Dec 2016 #23

Exit polls as based on self-reports. What you should be relying upon is the actual votes. No one spooky3 Dec 2016 #27

Wha? portlander23 Dec 2016 #31

using old data and changing the goalposts -- not a winning argument. spooky3 Dec 2016 #28

These are 2016 exit polls. portlander23 Dec 2016 #32

This article, written Nov. 9, right out of the gate gets a critical assumption WRONG. spooky3 Dec 2016 #25

The trends in the exit polls aren't going to change portlander23 Dec 2016 #34

so right!!! where's the class analysis? MadLinguist Dec 2016 #33

Right, The Deplorables Went For Trump In A Big Way DallasNE Dec 2016 #6

Yes, thank you! raging moderate Dec 2016 #16

The term 'working class' is very ironic being Trump won in areas with higher unemployment RAFisher Dec 2016 #18

Trump won because of bigotry and ignorant, mean fear and resentment. yardwork Dec 2016 #11

yes. they are racists. DesertFlower Dec 2016 #12