In Vietnam Our Troops Did Not Refuse To Fire Back Because We Did Not Want To Be Like The VC/NVA.

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17. I have talked with people with those attitudes, too

During most of these yrs of recovery, a dramatically decreasing poverty rate has not accompanied the low unemployment numbers.
Many of the people who are stuggling very hard were paying attention in 2008 and instantly associate Goldman Sachs with corruption. According to some, they preferred Trump because he "didn't need their money." Others reasonably saw very little difference between the two in terms of wealth and looking out for the wealthy, but that one was criticizing politics in a way they liked to hear. The other was bragging about governmental accomplishments they didn't feel. Not in the 90s and not over the past 8 yrs.

I agree there are a lot of variables that influenced Trump voters. Writing them all off without even making an effort to understand what was happening will not help us.

This is what will....
"outreach into the very local and obscure local governance positions races rather than state or national races."

In his press conference yesterday, Obama also mentioned a need to focus our ground game at state and local levels.