WV Exit Polls: 44% of Sanders voters are Trump supporters

[nadinbrzezinski]

175. That headline is purposeful

To be honest, talking to local and national reporters, who only cover politics... and have never marched with Occupy. or any of the myriad of protest movements, they really are in a news reporting bubble. Some of it is editorial choice, some of it is the reporters themselves are in a bubble. What is driving this is pure anger.

I have talked to Sanders supporters who were at your local occupy, as well as Trump supporters who were at your local occupy. They disagree fundamentally on a lot of stuff, but they agree the government is corrupt, the establishment will not listen to them, or care for them. Or do anything that will help the 99 percent. They also agree that the system needs a shock to change. And they also believe that if they cannot change the system from within, they will have to take other measures. Some for the record have completely checked out from the political system.

That is why I said, I get it. I have been in the middle of very weird conversations. And no, they don't want free stuff. They just want their taxes to help with things like education, medical care, roads, bridges, what they used to do.

The weirdest was a guy quoting from Ayn Rand, I mean book and everything (Atlas Shrugged, the section was John Galts speech), while arguing with a guy quoting from the Communist manifesto, book and everything in hand. For the record that was not just the strangest conversation ever, but the greatest outlier you have ever seen. What was even funnier was the other people in the conversation called both of them for not even getting what they were reading and quoting. It was funny. It was raining, I was tired... you had to find funny somewhere.

So if she wins. I expect even more fun in the streets. The same will happen if Trump wins, after the euphoria from some sectors goes down to a great WHAT? This is not what we voted for. (What do you want to know about Trump incidentally).