Haha, joke’s on you, Libtards! There’s no wall funding!
Timex
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How many people make up the group that voted for Obama and then voted for Trump?
Because i assume those people are insane?
Maybe they are apolitical misogynists?
There’s a group of voters who just vote for “change”. They don’t care what type of change. It’s stupid as hell.
I think they simply vote for charisma.
Fun how their vote counts EXACTLY THE SAME AS OURS.
It’s people who CLAIM they voted for Obama ie “I’m not racist.” Does the percentage match up actual vote numbers?
Wait… Republicans think the country is getting better?
Timex
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Obama’s not president, so they think it’s better on that alone.
And really, the economy is better. It wasn’t bad at all, at the end of Obama’s administration, but it is indeed better now.
Of course, we paid for that with an extra trillion in debt to pay for some tax cut to the ultra rich. And it’s unlikely to continue. But if you ignore that…
Before Trump /pol/ used to have a big faction of Nihilists. The Burn It All Down people. I assume they match wider society. The voting booth will also bring this to the fore as I suspect most only express this anonymously.
(from wikipedia)
Cohn noted that when looking specifically at white Obama voters with no higher education than a high school diploma, Clinton only won 74% (based on data from the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group) or 78% (based on the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES)).[1]
So basically Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin
Timex
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It just strikes me as so weird, given how they presumably liked Obama, but then they voted for some dude who was essentially his opposite, and actually directly attacked Obama with overtly racist crap.
Although I guess on some level, perhaps those voters were voting on a purely emotional, hype based level. Like, they voted for the person who was louder and flashier. Obama definitely had a lot of energy, as did Trump.
If you just listen to the candidate in the way that a dog would, where you don’t really understand any of the words, but just the tone of voice and crap like that… then I guess I could see you supporting both of them.
I sympathize a bit with this category of voters because I view their voting pattern as an attempt to up-end the current (perceived) cultural hegemony.
Of course, this means that the more extreme the candidate the more likely they are to lend their support, regardless of the actual policies the candidate is pushing for… so they are likely to support Bernie over Trump, but not Biden.
Nah. Michigan only went trump cause we were gerrymandered to hell and back. Hopefully, since we voted to change this, that will no longer happen.
KevinC
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Gerrymandering doesn’t affect Presidential elections, so Michigan doesn’t get to use that excuse!
Oh for shame. Well at least we voted practically all Democrats in 2018. Hopefully we can at least keep that going.
KevinC
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I sure hope so! I live in a tiny blue island in the Red Sea, so there’s no hope for my home state in my lifetime.
Yeah, like @KevinC said, gerrymandering wasn’t the issue. Turnout was.
ShivaX
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They wanted change.
They saw Clinton as someone who wasn’t going to make things better for them or that they disliked.
So they voted for the dude that said he’d change everything.
They voted for someone who explicitly put himself in opposition to the predecessor they also voted for. I mean, do these people even have any awareness that presidents bring about policy?
A stupid electorate gets what it deserves. Democracy turns out not to be a free ride to good government.
Also, I love that comic.
The recent Pet Shop Boys song from February seems relevant to this discussion. It’s a lyric video, so it can be played without music too if you’re at work. Though obviously, it’s not as good without the music.
