RE: Trump won the white working-man vote..
November 17, 2016 at 10:16 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 10:31 am by TaraJo.)
(November 17, 2016 at 9:53 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 17, 2016 at 7:35 am)Jehanne Wrote: ...by 39 points!!!
http://www.electoral-vote.com/#item-1
Incredible! But, as the article states, Trump's victory may turn out to be the best thing for the progressive cause, assuming, of course, that the SCOTUS judges can live on (and on and on!)
I think it may or may not be, personally. The protesting and accusation of them all being racist bigots isn't really helping the cause and will only continue to push these people further away.
Bingo. Politics isn't about what's right, it's about what's popular. Unfortunately, the alt-right has made racism... I don't want to say it's popular, but their irreverant sense of humor makes it not-unpopular. On the flip side, the regressive left are infamous for not being able to laugh at anything, which has made them about as popular as ebola.
The other frustrating thing about this stat (which I can believe) is that, when a lot of lefties see that white, middle class males aren't voting for their candidate, they tend to take that as evidence that white people are racist or as evidence that Trump really does stand for racism. They don't seem to realize it for the problem it is: they're poling extremely low in a very large demographic. Maybe us lefties need to take that stat and figure out why white, working class people don't want to vote for our side.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama