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In reply to the discussion: As a person that lives in Ohio in a formally blue area this is why [View all]MiddleClass
(888 posts)Which he was, by the way,
the target audience was suburban housewives would normally vote Republican, Access Hollywood video, she had them. Late in the campaign, James Comey letter immediately had them running back into the Republican fold.
The Rust Belt, lost a massive amount of jobs over the last 30 years, automation, NAFTA, the web, a cheaper southern workforce. Massive job loss, massive resentment for those immigrants, massive resentment for others that took got jobs. All the people, Hillary Clinton was reaching out to. Think about it for a moment, because of NAFTA, those damn Mexicans did take their job, but they didn't even realize they weren't immigrants, the company emigrated to Mexico because of NAFTA. George Bush senior, basically started NAFTA, but Bill Clinton and by extension, Hillary finish implementing the law.
Now remember before the election. What was all over the news? Ferguson protests, every police shooting in the Midwest and protests that followed, anti-police chanting, followed by assassinating police officers. A perfect political wedge issue. Don the con jumped into one side of the argument as a lawyer and order president, Hillary was pigeonholed as the BLM president. And that was it.