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Hillary Clinton

ginnyinWI

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4. we were told that it was the white working class who voted for DT

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 05:23 PM

Dec 2016

This says that they were not working class, but middle class.

My brother is a recently retired working class guy, white, and not rural but in a near suburb of Milwaukee-- who voted for DT. He voted for Obama in '08. I think both times he was voting for a change and seemed disappointed in Obama for not somehow working a miracle in his own life personally. He does now have health insurance thanks to Obama care, but the premiums were raised and he was mad about that. He's still a few years short of getting Medicare.

He is not particularly racist, I don't think.

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Clinton won among voters that made $50,000 or less AND those said the ECONOMY was most important 7.3 [View all] Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 OP

this goes against other reporting ginnyinWI Dec 2016 #1

How? Rural folks tend to be white, no? SunSeeker Dec 2016 #3

we were told that it was the white working class who voted for DT ginnyinWI Dec 2016 #4

Most people are working class. nt SunSeeker Dec 2016 #5

So its not "the economy stupid"; it's racism stupid. SunSeeker Dec 2016 #2

So much for Trump's populist economic message.. JHan Dec 2016 #6

KnR! Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 #7