Complacent upper-class feminism? The strength of religiosity? No, Obama votes went to Trump…
Across swing states — and others previously thought to be safe for Democrats — Trump colored dozens of counties red that hadn’t gone Republican in decades.
Of the nearly 700 counties that twice sent Obama to the White House, a stunning one-third flipped to support Trump. Trump also won 194 of the 207 counties that voted for Obama either in 2008 or 2012.
By contrast, of those 2,200 counties that never supported Obama, Clinton was only able to win six. That’s just 0.3 percent crossover to the Democratic side.
Clinton had more opportunities to peel counties from the Republicans. Historically, Democrats rely on few (but very populous) counties to chart a path to victory. Republicans, by contrast, draw support from a wide swath of many more rural and suburban counties.
Despite having a smaller field of possible counties to win over, Trump did just that, delivering electoral votes in the Upper Midwest states, as well as in Florida and North Carolina.
Trump secured several Obama counties in upstate New York, though it wasn’t enough to win the state. He also won over counties in Maine’s rural congressional 2nd District, securing a GOP electoral vote in New England for the first time since 2000.
HRC failed to address messages to the same constituencies that she won in 2008, and then there’s racism and classism. And now MSM is placing blame on a Comey effect.
White women without a college degree supported Trump over Hillary Clinton by nearly a two to one margin.
White women with a college degree were more evenly divided, with 45% supporting Trump, compared with 51% supporting Clinton.
“There’s your shy Trump vote,” Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tweeted on Tuesday night, noting that Trump had only lost white women with college degrees by a narrow margin.
Women of color, in contrast, voted overwhelmingly for Clinton: 94% of black women supported her, and 68% of Latino women. While exit polling data has flaws, the early responses underline a stark racial divide among American women: the majority of white women embraced Trump and his platform, while women of color rejected him.
“For them, it’s not real. They don’t have to worry about it, so you must be exaggerating. It’s Ivanka Trump [saying], ‘I’ve never had to deal with sexual harassment,’ and she’s only worked for her dad and companies she’s owned.
”The strong support for Trump among white women suggests that many of them, if not “overtly racist”, simply “don’t think racism is a big deal”, said Mikki Kendall, a feminist cultural critic...
The Clinton campaign and many commentators suggested that Clinton’s attempt to break the nation’s “highest, hardest glass ceiling” would draw strong support from women across the country.
But in interviews, white women who support Trump said his record as a businessman and his policy positions resonated with them more strongly than Clinton’s candidacy as a woman…
While white women had the strongest support for Trump, 26% of Latino female voters also supported him…
Rebecca Carroll, an author who writes frequently about race, said: “White women are, of course, targets of heinous misogyny and hatred and sexism. We just saw Hillary Clinton deflect misogyny and hatred and sexism at every turn during her campaign from the guy who won, no less – but they are still in many ways so protected and favored and privileged.
“I am struck as I see these comments from white women on Twitter, especially along the lines of: ‘How could this happen?’ I immediately think, what world are you living in that you didn’t see that this could and would happen?”
Conversely, the revolutionary establishment in Tehran welcomes Trump’s election because it thinks this will accelerate what it sees as inevitable US decline.
Indeed, satirising Trump’s rhetoric about banning Muslims, an advert this week by Jordan’s national airline, Royal Jordanian, promoted deals on flights to the US with a tagline saying: “Just in case he wins … travel to the US while you’re still allowed to!”
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Thomas Frank kept showing the enormous price the working class were paying as a result of the economic policies of the Republicans and the New Democrats, and the indifference to their plight by the leaders of the New Democrats.