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Trump was full of flaws, failure, and fraud as as a businessman and it went ignored by his supporters. It's naive to think that his performance or his earnestne

by gdulli 10y ago

Trump was full of flaws, failure, and fraud as as a businessman and it went ignored by his supporters. It's naive to think that his performance or his earnestness as a president will mean anything to them. This is thinking from the era that was still at least ostensibly about truth and facts. Future elections need be about no more than who can give poor people the loudest, simplest explanation for why they're poor.

lhopki01 10y ago
Trump's supporters were on average better off than Hillary's supporters.
- Retric 10y ago
  Comparing economics between states and even locations vs. how they voted I don't think that's accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox makes this stuff harder to calculate than you might think. Look at VA income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capita_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capi... vs. http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/virginia/ http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/... Poor areas are vastly more likely to vote republican. Arlington county median income $101,000: 77.0% Clinton vs 16.9% trump. Lee County $50,014 income: 17.4% Clinton vs. 80.6% trump Trump was very popular with the rural uneducated and thus poor. PS: DC get's a bad rap, but once again top 5 income compared to state and was only beaten by other heavily democratic states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income 4% of DC voted for Trump.
  - lhopki01 10y ago
    Wait you chose a few locations that happened to be richer that voted for Clinton and used that as proof? Look here: http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls All four different exit polls clearly show Trump winning in all the higher income brackets.

by gdulli 10y ago

lhopki01 10y ago

Trump's supporters were on average better off than Hillary's supporters.

Retric 10y ago
Comparing economics between states and even locations vs. how they voted I don't think that's accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox makes this stuff harder to calculate than you might think. Look at VA income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capita_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capi... vs. http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/virginia/ http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/... Poor areas are vastly more likely to vote republican. Arlington county median income $101,000: 77.0% Clinton vs 16.9% trump. Lee County $50,014 income: 17.4% Clinton vs. 80.6% trump Trump was very popular with the rural uneducated and thus poor. PS: DC get's a bad rap, but once again top 5 income compared to state and was only beaten by other heavily democratic states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income 4% of DC voted for Trump.
- lhopki01 10y ago
  Wait you chose a few locations that happened to be richer that voted for Clinton and used that as proof? Look here: http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls All four different exit polls clearly show Trump winning in all the higher income brackets.