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Partisan divide remains
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...33109.html
"...During the 2016 campaign, it was widely assumed that many Republicans would not vote for Trump. Some college-educated Republicans didn't, but their numbers were offset by non-college-educated whites who had previously voted Democratic. Many Trump voters have qualms about their candidate, but for the moment, at least, they're sticking with him.
They're also standing by the party he affiliated himself with belatedly in life. Public opinion is more favorable to the Republican Party than it has been in years. That's not because Democratic voters like it more but because Republican voters who previously had some reservations about it have rallied to its standard.
Meanwhile, Democratic politicians and, it seems, a large majority of Hillary Clinton voters remain totally disinclined to compromise with the candidate most had assumed she could easily beat. Some style themselves "the Resistance," as if they were Frenchmen opposed to the Hitler-allied Vichy regime. In private conversations and on social media, they speculate about how soon Trump will be impeached.
They seem to assume that vitriolic -- and sometimes even violent or vulgar -- opposition to Trump will turn around a critical mass of voters. That's possible, if he is seen as producing bad results, but there's little evidence it's happened yet..."
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RE: Partisan divide remains
I don't think that's saying one good thing about this country.
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RE: Partisan divide remains
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RE: Partisan divide remains
(02-19-2017 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/opini...odayspaper
So are liberals helping Trump?
They are his best references. Article hits it on the head. The left is strengthening Trump's support among moderates.
I think they are. Trump won't gain any more supporters but he'll continue to have the same support in those strategic locations.
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RE: Partisan divide remains
(02-19-2017 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/opini...odayspaper
So are liberals helping Trump?
They are his best references. Article hits it on the head. The left is strengthening Trump's support among moderates.
I keep posting this. Trump took the moderates. That's how he won. Instead of moving to the center the Democrats are moving further left. They can admire each other's percieved moral superiority and convictions and continue to lose elections
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