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Trump got the same votes as Romney. He shares approximately zero ideas with Romney. Evangelicals voted for Trump, who has kids with 3 different women and chea
by jbooth 10y ago
Trump got the same votes as Romney.
He shares approximately zero ideas with Romney.
Evangelicals voted for Trump, who has kids with 3 different women and cheated on all 3, because Republican. Free-trade libertarians voted Trump, the least free-trade candidate since the 1930s, because Republican. The only #NeverTrumpers who stuck to their guns were a couple dozen foreign policy experts, who's neocon base still voted Trump, because Republican.
Maaaaaaybe 1% of the voters were people who would have otherwise not voted or voted D because they were attracted by Trump's ideas. The rest of the election swings on anti-Clinton sentiment/propaganda and her inability to counter it -- depressing her own turnout and energizing unenthusiastic Trump voters.
- spiralpolitik 10y agoAnd this is why the Republican's keep winning. Because they keep turning out for the team regardless of who the players are. They have long realized that it is better to be in power when squabbling with each other than out in the cold pointing fingers. See also The British Conservative Party.
- moyta 10y agoThey know they will get a stable base from the older generation that will turn out to the polls, and the only way to beat that is to turn a higher percentage (over 55% of eligible voters) out to the polls.
- moyta 10y agoYeah, she didn't get the 10 million Obama voters from 2008 to get out and vote, that was Hillary's big failure.
- zimpenfish 10y agoSome of which, at least, were suppressed by Republican states after the hobbling of the Voting Rights Act. Less "Hillary's big failure" and "Superb long game from the Republicans".