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elleng

(130,156 posts)
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 03:03 PM Apr 2017

Trump Voters in a Swing District Wonder When the Winning Will Start.

BENSALEM, Pa. — One after another, the gamblers totter along the twisting walkway, bathed in artificial purple light — burdened, at least occasionally, by the instinct that they should have known better.

Usually, this pathway outside Parx Casino is reserved for self-flagellation, a private lament at the last hundred lost. But lately, as with most any gathering place around here since late January — the checkout line, the liquor store, the park nearby where losing lottery numbers are pressed into the mulch — patrons have found occasion to project their angst outward, second-guessing a November wager.

“Just like any other damn president,” sighed Theresa Remington, 44, a home-care worker and the mother of two active-duty Marines, scraping at an unlit cigarette. She had voted for Donald J. Trump because she expected him to improve conditions for veterans and overhaul the health care system. Now?

“Political bluster,” Ms. Remington said, before making another run at the quarter slots. She wondered aloud how Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont might have fared in the job.

Such is a view from this swing county of a swing region of a swing state that powered Mr. Trump’s improbable victory, an electoral thermometer for a president slogging toward the end of his first 100 days. Across the country, Republican officials have grown anxious at their standing on even ruby-red turf, sweating out a closer-than-expected victory last week in a House race in a Kansas congressional district that Mr. Trump had carried by 27 points. Another stress test arrives Tuesday, with a special election for a House seat in Georgia.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/us/politics/trump-voters-swing-state.html?

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Trump Voters in a Swing District Wonder When the Winning Will Start. (Original Post) elleng Apr 2017 OP
Suckers. DavidDvorkin Apr 2017 #1
Snowflakes hurple Apr 2017 #2
Ha! DavidDvorkin Apr 2017 #4
She never noticed WHO consistently defunds the VA ?? Kittycow Apr 2017 #3

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)
3. She never noticed WHO consistently defunds the VA ??
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 05:09 PM
Apr 2017

WHO says No health care for you? ?

These people are so GD stoopid! !

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