Democratic Primaries

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts) Mon Apr 29, 2019, 07:55 AM Apr 2019

Question re Biden and the Rust Belt. [View all]

This is NOT criticism of Biden in any way, but a real question.

Biden has great appeal in the Rust Belt. PA, MI, WI. But if enough of them voted for Trump because of jobs lost, bad economies, trade deals, how is it that Biden still has appeal there, when he was part of the administration that those guys blamed for their woes? Part of the administration that worked on trade deals?

He DOES have appeal in that area of the country. Is it possible that the reasons some went for Trump was for other things than economy and jobs? Or is it that Russia targeted those states? (I personally think Russia targeted PA.)

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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Question re Biden and the Rust Belt. [View all] Honeycombe8 Apr 2019 OP

Because many voters vote on personality and not issues, consciously and unconsciously DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2019 #1

Yes Freddie Apr 2019 #2

Exactly PatSeg Apr 2019 #8

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2019 #10

How so? (nt) ehrnst Apr 2019 #11

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2019 #16

Who was saying this? (nt) ehrnst Apr 2019 #18

Yeah PatSeg Apr 2019 #12

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Yes PatSeg Apr 2019 #19

Typical for voters to want change every 8 years MichMan Apr 2019 #29

I suppose that is human nature PatSeg Apr 2019 #33

Agreed. clutterbox1830 Apr 2019 #34

Look at recent state wide elections and flipping of governors from Republican to Democratic Freethinker65 Apr 2019 #3

I suspect it was a combination of two things-- lastlib Apr 2019 #4

Remember after 2016 when we all agreed... doompatrol39 Apr 2019 #5

I never agreed that rust belt voters meant racist and sexist. marylandblue Apr 2019 #7

It is unfortunate that is true for a good amount of those voters Trenzalore Apr 2019 #20

But that affected everyone doompatrol39 Apr 2019 #23

Exactly! EffieBlack Apr 2019 #28

Quite frankly they'll turn on Joe just like they turned on Hillary Trenzalore Apr 2019 #30

Yep doompatrol39 Apr 2019 #35

No, we did not all agree to that. SMC22307 Apr 2019 #31

Because DownriverDem Apr 2019 #6

Biden is well liked personally, but many things he did are not popular. marylandblue Apr 2019 #9

He was also Obama's veep for 8 years. ucrdem Apr 2019 #13

Thanks to everyone for some insightful thoughts on this. Honeycombe8 Apr 2019 #14

most didn't vote for Trump based on economy. Biden is an old white man JI7 Apr 2019 #17

That is a fallacy Trenzalore Apr 2019 #21

Mondale was 56 crazytown Apr 2019 #27

They didn't vote for Trump because of jobs and the economy EffieBlack Apr 2019 #22

I'm in PA and I can say for a fact FakeNoose Apr 2019 #24

Very interesting insight. Honeycombe8 Apr 2019 #25

Yes I've been mentioning this on DU and others have too FakeNoose Apr 2019 #32

Let's be honest. Hillary was not popular there. She didn't show. redstateblues Apr 2019 #26