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People are scared to be outed as Trump voters.
I know some 'undercover' trump supporters in my social circle who just want to avoid being labelled a racist or sexist so they say out loud that they voted for Hillary but in reality they voted for Trump. All these media polls & statistics have proved to be fake & made up so I dont believe anything they say. I talk to people around me & read through the public forums to get a gist of peoples' opinions & views. Even the protestors are hired help & a lot of them didnt even bother to vote. So I dont trust this so called invisible half of the country hating Trump. If he does a good job we will keep him, if not, we will switch our votes next elections & kick him out. Give him a fair chance for now.
There was never any visible support for Hillary here in NE Ohio. Trump signs were everywhere. I could count the Hillary signs on my two hands, and that was counting the multiple signs in front of the same house!
This tells me a lot of Democrats voted for Trump.
It is painful to watch the president they love hated by the other half of the country. It is easier to attack than defend. When one is on the side that dislikes the man in office, they can just sit by and insult.
Trump supporters are rejoicing now but trust me, they will grow tired of how much the president they like is disliked by over half of the country. Over half. They will grow weary of defending him. And if he privatizes Medicare and Social Security, a lot of unpleasantness will likely follow; only time will tell. For those that think they will get rich with Social Security privatization and will then have no problem affording private insurance policies at 70, Enron employees thought they would be rich too.
The electoral college may elect the president,but it doesn't negate that a much larger portion of the country did not want Trump. They are reminded daily that a small number of rural voters had more power than entire metropolitan areas. Both areas may work and pay taxes but saying those large areas have less say is not going to wear well when Trump makes those inevitable mistakes.
Lets put something in perspective here. There are approx. 300,000,000 citizens of this country conservatively. Hillary has about a 2,000,000 vote lead in the popular vote, but let's give her 3,000,000 just for fun. That's 1% more people that would have preferred her. That's what you call a negligible difference, and an embarrassment when you consider that Obama won the PV by 10 million in '08... Even if we just limit it to the number of people who voted, she's still only got, what, 1.5% more? Where I come from, that doesn't constitute a "much larger portion"....
And let's also dispel with this myth that "Republicans like Donald Trump".... I realize we all have pretty short memories when it comes to politics, but you'll remember that of the one that voted, 65% did NOT vote for Donald Trump in the primaries. A compelling majority of us would have preferred someone else, but when faced with the choice of an unstable buffoon like Trump, or someone that at the very least, would have created an environment for more far Left Lunacy to take hold, we chose the buffoon. Think about that. That's an indictment of your side.
There was never any visible support for Hillary here in NE Ohio. Trump signs were everywhere. I could count the Hillary signs on my two hands, and that was counting the multiple signs in front of the same house!
This tells me a lot of Democrats voted for Trump.
As a fellow NE Ohioan. I can vouch for that. I saw a ton of Trump signs, but of the ones I can recall, I only saw about 4 Hillary signs.
There was never any visible support for Hillary here in NE Ohio. Trump signs were everywhere. I could count the Hillary signs on my two hands, and that was counting the multiple signs in front of the same house!
This tells me a lot of Democrats voted for Trump.
To be fair, in places such as the above there were likely 'undercover' Hillary supporters who did not want to be outed for fear of being label a supporter of a criminal and liberal.
Wow what a real kneeslapper!!! Kangaroos, my how original!! Did you think that up yourself??? You smug R's are all in your glory, acting like you are above the fray. I mean c,mon man be realistic. You HAVE to have seen how the right conducted themselves after 2008 and 2012 and even in between. Now you all act like you're all bastions of classiness and grace! PLEASE, the ONLY valid point the right has is how the left is getting violent in their displeasure, and that's no small point either, so fair is fair. But the verbal hatred from the left now, well, the right was dishing it out for 8 years, so now it comes around. for the 800th time I am an American taxpaying, law-abiding, educated citizen living in Australia. I still have to pay taxes to your chithole country, so I feel that gives me the right to be critical. Not to mention that when America goes down in flames-and it will- we are affected too. All I was doing was pointing out that you aren't the only ones that are free, and that you aren't as "free"as you think-not all anyways, unlike here. You "patriots" sure love to rip on other countries as "beneath you and inferior" but God forbid someone say America isn't great and you get your knickers in a knot!
I was going to ask what type of people you know, or just say that you must know an odd group of people because the most patriotic people I know would never spend a second ripping on other countries as beneath them or inferior, that pride and patriotism don't require that.
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Why is that? Dish it out but get very vengeful and defensive when you get it back. All I know is, I'll take real freedom over the 'murican "freedom" which is really freedom for the well off whites
Then I read the above, and the reason for your attitude became obvious. The chip on your shoulder.
Wow what a real kneeslapper!!! Kangaroos, my how original!! Did you think that up yourself??? You smug R's are all in your glory, acting like you are above the fray. I mean c,mon man be realistic. You HAVE to have seen how the right conducted themselves after 2008 and 2012 and even in between. Now you all act like you're all bastions of classiness and grace! PLEASE, the ONLY valid point the right has is how the left is getting violent in their displeasure, and that's no small point either, so fair is fair. But the verbal hatred from the left now, well, the right was dishing it out for 8 years, so now it comes around. for the 800th time I am an American taxpaying, law-abiding, educated citizen living in Australia. I still have to pay taxes to your chithole country, so I feel that gives me the right to be critical. Not to mention that when America goes down in flames-and it will- we are affected too. All I was doing was pointing out that you aren't the only ones that are free, and that you aren't as "free"as you think-not all anyways, unlike here. You "patriots" sure love to rip on other countries as "beneath you and inferior" but God forbid someone say America isn't great and you get your knickers in a knot! Why is that? Dish it out but get very vengeful and defensive when you get it back. All I know is, I'll take real freedom over the 'murican "freedom" which is really freedom for the well off whites
The past 8 years we lived with "Hope and Change" and it only got worse. Now we have hope and things are changing. It can only get better. That's why we are a bit giddy.
What's hilarious about this thread is that the Democrats just learned a "hard truth" and now this OP thinks the Republicans are going to "learn a hard truth" over the next four years? LOL
Don't think so, pal. This election was an utter repudiation of Democrat policies (progressivism) that have been destroying America. Republicans are going to have no second thoughts. None.
That would be true if in fact Trump was a republican, let's not read too much into a campaign of the two most unpopular candidates in history. Making conclusions that the results amounted to anything other than that is delusional.
The truth is that republicans party is now in charge throughout the country (assuming Trump is a republican), governors, state and federal congress, so now they are responsible for our country.
I believe the democrats were spouting "We won, you lost, get over it."
Meh. Trump will start with less then Obama regarding control, with a worse deficit, and with a significantly more divided country (thanks media!). I'm interested to see if he upholds four things: Second Amendment, Tax Plans, Immigration, and Obamacare.
If he does those three things he will be the most accomplished president within my lifetime so far.
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