2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow much of tonite's Michigan vote was about NAFTA ?
Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law. Hillary has a tough time distancing herself from that. Sending most of the auto jobs to Mexico and abroad has decimated Michigan. Seems to me Bernie is obviously the one who can honestly speak towards bringing our jobs back over Hillary having been against NAFTA way back then.
Perhaps all the pundits and pollsters forgot that sometimes campaigns come down to issues?
reformist2
(9,841 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)was the subject of the OP and so to answer the OP's actual question: A lot.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)So, yes NAFTA maybe fresher in people's minds. But, it is not why Michigan has problems it's a reason those problems got worse. It's a good issue to talk about in any case, but really the whole state has needs that have gone unmet since at least the early 80's probably before that even, I am just going by my own memories of growing up in Michigan and watching the decline and becoming very aware of the effects as I became a teenager looking for a job and watching my friends struggle and watching my family losing ground.
LSK
(36,846 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)I think that when folks go into the voting booth, they think like me. Who is going to do the best job for us? Or maybe just for me!
There have been many polls recently that show both Bernie and Hillary against the GOP slate. Bernie always comes out on top. Why is that? Electability?
Here's Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks on that very topic. And yes, he is pissed off. I love to hear Cenk in high dudgeon.
Oopsie! Video fixed. George Martin died today so I had a Beatles tune cued up.