Most of us are sick of election campaign talk by now. Only a few die hards and those vulgar, to us a favorite Wall Street Journal and Financial Times term to describe Trump and his followers throughout the campaign like the cast of Hamilton, are still bitching.
We've have pointed out for years that Democrats take the Africa-American vote--and, yes, that too of the Hispanic vote--for granted. Republicans, especially old guard ones, were smug about it their myopic we don't need you view while Democrats were sneaky sinister. Their main meme was always the same: Promise much and deliver little. And to their chagrin, many African-Americans--despite the name calling they'll get, a staple of the PC crowd for anyone who disagrees--are catching on.
Here's a piece from the Washington Post. Pundits always come wearing tier favorite pair of conventional lenses. One could actually surmise the drift if one cared to really pay attention and listen early in the process when most of these pundits thought the average American had abetter chance of getting it by a meteorite twice in the same week than Trump had of winning even the nomination.
The quote below also puts the lie to the biggest MSM tried to tell that all Trump supporters are white, red-neck, homophobic, uneducated, ignorant racists. On can only hope the article author doesn't lose his job for writing the truth. It's hardly a popular serving at the Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos.
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Mike Dawson, an expert on election statistics in Ohio, did an analysis of the vote last week for the Columbus Dispatch. What he found was that Trump’s percentage was higher than that of Mitt Romney in 2012 in 83 of the state’s 88 counties. Trump’s percentage in rural southeast Ohio was the biggest since Herbert Hoover in 1928. In the Youngstown area, once reliable Democratic turf, Trump got 52 percent of the vote compared with 39 percent that Romney got in 2012.
Ohio was not unique. Similar patterns existed in the other Northern industrial states. Yet in the three formerly blue states that Trump converted, Clinton might have won had she not suffered erosion among African American voters — one key portion of the Obama coalition — or prevented more white, college-educated voters from moving away from her and returning home to the GOP, the group her team saw as a key element of a new Clinton coalition.
Trump redrew the map just as he redrew the rules for running a campaign. For those reasons alone, and despite all the controversy of his campaign and the earlier personnel appointments, he ought not to be underestimated and/or seen through conventional lenses.
washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-americas-first-independent-president/2016/11
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