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In reply to the discussion: Not all white women voted for trump. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)has mostly been true since the civil rights bill. Blacks voted against Trump in about the same percentage as they did against W, and against Bush Sr. and against Reagan and against Ford ... So it is not like they had some kind of epiphany with Trump.
The same is generally true of people who voted FOR Trump. Just watched an interview with Ann Coulter on Frontline and she was talking about how Trump won because of the issues of trade and immigration, when the truth is that most of the people who voted for Trump were the same people who voted for Romney and McCain and W and Dole and Bush Sr.....
I still think the real key was Bernie voters just like Nader was decisive in 2000. Enough Bernie supporters were peeved about his primary loss and the news that Hillary supposedly cheated and also the news that she was going to win anyway that a portion of them either stayed home or voted for Stein or Johnson. Enough of them to tip those three states - Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
We hear about the statistic for women because it was thought by many (myself included) that women would support one of their own in the same way that in 2008 I was constantly having black people come into the Democratic headquarters to get Obama signs and also telling me that they were Republicans. One of my co-workers is a libertarian (of all things) but he voted for Obama too.
Back in 2013 before the smear machine opened up on her, my Republican sister in law was telling me that she liked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.