Do you live in a major metro area? Because I don't think the rest of the country is shocked outside of them. I live in Chicago and I spent most of the prime e

Do you live in a major metro area? Because I don't think the rest of the country is shocked outside of them. I live in Chicago and I spent most of the prime election campaigning time travelling (mostly by car) on the weekends for bike races with my fiancee, and after seeing what the US 2 hours outside of big cities felt like, I was predicting a Trump victory despite all of my friends telling me I was insane. To your other point, almost everyone has a hot button issue that matters to them. For many it's abortion, for many it's gun control, and they will almost always vote for that issue, and not the candidate. It should be no surprise someone from an Islam background cares so much about what's happening in Islamic nations and our response to it.