Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I think the low-income, rural ones are scared. Their husband's have lost the jobs that provide them with their standard of living, their communities and schools are loosing tax revenue, and they themselves are dying. I can't tell you how many stories I saw this year about the poverty and drugs epidemic in middle america.
8 Relatives in a Ohio family of marijuana dealers slaughtered
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/27/relatives-deny-drug-cartel-launched-hit-on-ohio-family-6-months-after-murders.html
Death rates spiking in rural america
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/white-death/
Heroin granny with 4-year-old in back seat
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ohio-police-share-photos-adults-overdosed-child-car-article-1.2784467
They saw no way out under HRC, so Trump was the only other option in a two-way race.
What has Trump proposed other than the MAGA line?
Not a single thing but the idea there is - a Republican lowers taxes which gives more money in their pocket. He could even bring jobs back in their eyes whereas Hillary was more focused on educated, well-heeled donors than the blue-collar populace in small towns and coal country. I don't think they were at all rational about Trump, but if you're dying and someone is offering a lifeline, you jump for the lifeline.
Her soundbites came down to raising taxes, keeping Obamacare, protecting disadvantaged groups (everything from gay rights to equal pay), and spending more money (on things like eliminating in-state tuition).
His soundbites came down to jobs, build the wall, get rid of the immigrants, jobs, and social hate.
They picked the person who promised their husbands' jobs, not the person who guaranteed they would get paid equally for work at a job they don't have or who could increase the minimum wage (possibly killing the few jobs left in their area).