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In reply to the discussion: This Donald thing is starting to blow up. [View all]40degreesflaps
(88 posts)...it would have happened during the campaign but it didn't.
We're originally from Ohio, still have friends and family there. The cold truth is that most Ohioans (especially away from the cities) love this guy. Eight points or more in a Presidential race is generally understood to be landslide territory but Trump carried it by almost ten points. Portman and Kasich both won their re-election races by deep double digits. It's not a progressive state and won't ever be. That's why Jill Stein didn't ask for it to be recounted. There was no hope.
Stephen Moore said the decision to run was made after he and Trump took a trip through the Rust Belt about two years ago, saw all the burned out factories and said someone had to find a way to deal with this. They did.
There's Pennsylvania as well. My father's family still lives there. Large SUVs were lining up next to the Amish churches giving them rides to the polls in numbers that have never been seen before. That's why he carried it when most Republicans don't.
The Democrats have a lot of work to do over the next decade or so. Last time this happened, they were out of the WH for twelve years and even then the Clintons coming in were far more moderate than what left in 1980. The identity politics have to go. Yes...I know that's how they pay the bills but it doesn't work in Ohio and Florida and those states determine these races. Whomever the Democrats run in 2020 (probably Warren) will never carry Virginia or North Carolina and absent another financial collapse not carry Ohio or Florida. 2020 will look like 1972. If you don't know about that race, ask someone you know who's over sixty. They'll explain it.
I think he aspires to be a modern day Andrew Jackson. He certainly isn't but that's what he'd like us to think.