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NEW YORK — The first piece of news Americans woke up to on November 9th was that Donald Trump had been elected president. The second was that he owed his victory to a massive swing towards Republicans by white voters without college degrees across the north of the country, who delivered him the rustbelt states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania—all by one percentage point or less. Pundits had scoffed at Mr Trump’s plan to transform the Wall Street-friendly Republicans into a “workers’ party”, and flip the long-Democratic industrial Midwest: Hillary Clinton had led virtually every poll in these states, mostly by comfortable margins. But it was the plutocratic Donald who enjoyed the last laugh.
In the aftermath of the stunning result, statistical analysts homed in on blue-collar whites as never before. Although pre-election polls showed Mr Trump with a 30-percentage-point advantage among whites without a college degree, exit polls revealed he actually won them by almost 40 points. Unsurprisingly, the single best predictor identified so far of the change from 2012 to 2016 in the share of each county’s eligible voters […]
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Obamacare didn’t do anything for those people except saddle them with high premiums and high deductibles that leave them essentially uninsured.
In approving Obamacare the Democrats wasted a historic opportunity to bring America into the 20th century.
Is there any other first world country that doesn’t provide basic health care to all citizens?
If the Republican’s don’t show real progress on some of Trump’s promises they will be slaughtered in the 2018 elections.
The Congress is filled with aging career politicians who can best serve the country by quitting.
Well I agree it Obamacare is short of delivery but so was Social Security for the first 20 years. It took time to fine tune it to include widows and orphans along with the very old and poor. Maybe you are right throw the baby and the bathwater and start over after that tragedy with a fresh start in 2018.
“Polling data suggests that on the whole, Mr Trump’s supporters are not particularly down on their luck: within any given level of educational attainment, higher-income respondents are more likely to vote Republican” This is my personal experience here in blue state Oregon.
Most reporters are ignoring all of the trumpers who are living a relatively good life.