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2016 Postmortem

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H2O Man

(73,510 posts)
6. Right.
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:27 AM
Mar 2016

I talk with some union carpenters. Most of them are registered independents. They experience the world differently than me, but they are decent people, and I enjoy talking with them.

Perhaps not surprisingly, while their union is endorsing Hillary, it's unlikely she get more than 5% of the workers' votes. Most of them like Donald Trump. I normally do not consider Trump supporters intellectually stimulating. But these guys asked me two questions:

Between Clinton and Trump, who favored "trade deals" that cost Americans' jobs, and who favors keeping jobs here? And which one is more likely to engage the US military in a significantly larger role in the Middle East?

The question of the USSC is easily answered. Those other two are hard.

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