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In reply to the discussion: Met my first Trump voter the other night. [View all]calimary
(81,181 posts)"All over" like what? Cable news? The old-time "Big Three" (ABC, CBS, NBC)? Breitbart and Drudge? Pox Noise? Alex Jones?
The OP strongly suggests that quite a few voters who fell for trump have only a surface skimming of "news" input. Like what? Remember when Katie Couric nailed Sarah Palin on that? (Paraphrasing here) "What kinds of newspapers and magazines do you read?" And remember how Palin attempted to glide through that question by saying she read a lot of them. But when Couric pressed her with "like what?", she couldn't name a single one. New York Times? Washington Post? Time magazine? Vogue magazine? MAD magazine? How 'bout ANY of the Alaska papers, since after all, she was, at the time. Alaska's sitting governor? I merely googled:
Daily newspapers (currently published)
Alaska Daily News King Salmon.
Alaska Dispatch News Anchorage.
Daily Sitka Sentinel Sitka.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Fairbanks.
Juneau Empire Juneau.
Ketchikan Daily News Ketchikan.
Kodiak Daily Mirror Kodiak.
Peninsula Clarion Kenai.
NOTHING. She had NOTHING. Which strongly suggests that she didn't read anything. Anybody else would at least come up with SOMETHING. Or a name of some anchor person, or some identifying detail.
Sounds like the fellow in the OP who says "I get my news from all over" probably means he gets his "news" from the Morning Zoo show on the radio while driving to work, or from what he hears through the rumor mill via the neighbors over the back fence or at the local watering hole or the Saturday night poker game with the guys.
byronius, you didn't just have a hopefully-enlightening conversation with an ill-informed person, you just performed a public service!