1. Bullshit. About 200 pivot counties swung the election to Donald Trump after voting for Barack Obama. Floridians in Pinellas & Pasco counties, are not racists. Iowans in Union and Clarke counties, are not racists. Michiganders in Monroe, Saginaw and Macomb, not racists.
2. In PA, Appalachia region represents 52 of the 67 counties statewide, which cast 44% of the Keystone vote. They went for @realDonaldTrump by just under 500K votes, up significantly from the roughly 176,000-vote lead Romney racked up over Mr. Obama. They are not racists.
3. In Dane County, WI, home to Madison and Milwaukee, HRC lost only a combined net 1,000 votes versus Mr. Obama in 2012. It was the rest of the state that did her in. Mr. Trump beat Mrs. Clinton by nearly 340,000 votes, far more than Romney's margin just under 100K. Not racists.
4. For those who actually polled this election correctly, it's not even a "hypothesis" that immigration was 1/3 that won @realDonaldTrump the election. It's a fact. Get out of your cubicle and talk to people outside your neighborhood. Immigration is an economic, not a race issue.
5. This attempt to explain ones own failure by demagoguing the American people because you don't understand them, is bullshit.
6. All these people are racists? (As opposed to the ones who have to live with the economic consequences of elites' virtue) peoplespunditdaily.com/news/elections…
7. "I liked Obama and voted for him, but my homeboy was a little soft. He kept getting knocked down," Victor Berrios, a 50-year-old Brooklyn native, dialysis tech & registered Dem living in Pasco County said.
"Trump is my man... Democrats need to lighten up."
Is he a racist?
"Trump is my man... Democrats need to lighten up."
Is he a racist?
8. "I tell you what, I made so much money in the stock market this last year I had to pay $4000 in taxes – double the year before. So I'm happy as a fat pig in the sunshine," Torre Lesser, 81, of New Port Richey.
Is he a racist?
Is he a racist?
9. "Corruption in the government," independent voter Patricia Alexander, of Fairfield, Calif., told #PPDPoll when asked why she was flipping to support Donald Trump in 2016.
Is that racist?
Is that racist?
10. "Hillary is not only corrupt, she is a complete phony... For all the criticism of Trump, he is at least genuine, as is Bernie; with either of them the voter knows what the candidate truly *is*," Michigan indie voter Kathleen Downing told #PPDPoll in 2016.
Is that racist?
Is that racist?
11. "I want Trump to fight the DC establishment that is killing the middle class," Karen Hover, a moderately liberal Democrat from Blue Diamond, Nevada, told #PPDPoll when asked why she was crossing over to vote @realDonaldTrump.
Is she racist, too?
Is she racist, too?
12. "I want the career political class to come to an end, Law & Ordered restored & immigration laws enforced," Heather R., a liberal independent voter from Marshfield, Mass., told #PPDPoll when asked why she was voting for @realDonaldTrump in 2016.
Does she sound like a racist?
Does she sound like a racist?
13. These individual responses, which I have hundreds more of that I could post for all to read, were queried ONLY from pivot voters who self-described as Dems & Indies & responded to #PPDPoll from mid-Oct. to Election Day. Not a hint of racism or impact from Jim Comey's letter.
14. They show that voters made a clear rational decision in 2016. You may disagree with it, but immigration was seen as a major socio-economic issue, not an issue of race. It's easy to criticize them when you don't live in a neighborhood impacted like their communities have been.
15. "Trump is less hawkish on foreign intervention, against TPP & illegal immigration... for making gov't efficient and work for the common man, not elites," Curtis Philips, a Pacifica liberal told #PPDPoll when asked why he was flipping from Bernie Sanders to @realDonaldTrump.
16. "I do nothing but work work work, and I'm still barely scraping by," Ryan Fenik, a LIBERAL from Bay Village, Ohio, told #PPDPoll when asked why he was voting for @realDonaldTrump in 2016. "Trump will create jobs, and I need a better job that pays more."
Again. Not a racist.
Again. Not a racist.
17. "He [Trump] is not a politician and has great plans." Independent Willie Davis, of Johnstown, Penn., told #PPDPoll when asked why she was voting for @realDonaldTrump.
Seeing a pattern here, folks? Again, not racist.
Seeing a pattern here, folks? Again, not racist.
18. "He is single-handedly taking on both the D.C. UniParty & the entire mainstream media," SC Indie Joseph McCabe told #PPDPoll. "That takes a lot of courage & I respect him tremendously for it. He is the best person for the job of president right now & he has my full support."
19. "It's time for an outsider to clean up Washington DC. It is a corrupt and dishonest system that no longer answers to the people."
Independent Shannon Johnson of San Jose, Calif., told the #PPDPoll in 2016.
Independent Shannon Johnson of San Jose, Calif., told the #PPDPoll in 2016.
20. "I like Trump's America First policies: anti-globalization, naming radical Islamic terror, immigration reform, pro-U.S. trade deals, and I like his attacking political correctness, which is an anti-intellectual social disease."
Indie voter Joshua M., Orlando, told #PPDPoll.
Indie voter Joshua M., Orlando, told #PPDPoll.
21. I could go on and on and on. There are thousands of these responses, and they reveal how Middle America felt betrayed, left behind and disrespected by those who are supposed to answer to them. Instead of demonizing them b/c pundits are ignorant to their plight, try listening.
