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Title: Will Trump Democrats play a role in the 2016 presidential race?
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latimes.com
URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na ... s-20160424-snap-htmlstory.html
Published: Apr 25, 2016
Author: Lisa Mascaro
Post Date: 2016-04-25 19:57:30 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 3132
Comments: 23
A retired middle school principal was so moved by Donald Trump that he switched his Democratic Party registration so he can vote for the Republican billionaire in next Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary. So did the daughter of a steel worker, who twice voted for President Obama but says she is “over” the Democrats' political correctness. And a husband-wife team of Trump volunteers – she’s a laid-off airport worker, he’s a laid-off truck driver -- were Democrats for 30 years, until recently. “We always voted Democrat,” said Laurie McGinnis, 49, as her husband, Ricky, 57, hung a Trump banner outside their South Greensburg home. “But not any more.” Some of these newly minted Pennsylvania Republicans are simply formalizing a process that began with Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, when conservative-leaning Democrats began shifting away from the party in this faded industrial Rust Belt. Others moved abruptly, inspired by Trump and fed up with a party they say no longer speaks their language. Together the result is one of the most sizable shifts of partisan allegiance ever seen in Pennsylvania: 61,500 Democrats have become Republicans so far this year, part of a 145,000 jump in Republican registrations since the fall 2015 election, according to state figures analyzed by both parties. It’s more new Republicans than in the previous four years combined. Remainder of story is here.
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#4. To: Gatlin (#0)
The Trump Democrats will play a huge role. If Trump is the nominee, they will be the margin that elects him. If Trump is screwed out of the nomination by Republican corruption and manipulation, the Trump Democrats will not vote for the Republican who steals the nomination from him, and the result will be Hillary. The Trump Democrats are a decisive part of the Trump vote and the anti-Hillary vote.
There you have it. That's why I don't waste too much time on these political threads.
You really should spend more time on these political threads, Fred. It would definitely be to your advantage as it can be a way to deal with your chronic ignorance and provide you with a background to help you with the intellectual capacity to evaluate your poor behavior. By ignorance, I mean being unaware of or unconcerned with the negative effect your radical behavior has on you, relating to and affecting the fundamental nature of your disingenuous personality. I know that benevolent confrontation can be the right answer to correct ignorance, but it does not always work. I do hope that you do not choose to disregard this opportunity to learn and improve.
Did you watch hondo's video? You're proof that there's a sucker born every minute.
No! You're living proof that the problem in dealing with your chronic ignorant is that there is little chance that you wake up to the reality of your lack of impact because you obviously don’t self-reflect and can’t take on forum feedback. You should know that willful blindness is the legal case for claim of ignorance … something you need to remember and use freely.
I would not know about this ... since I have never had a government boot on my throat.
#23. To: Gatlin, Ready for Hillarys boot (#22)
Peon Gatlin enjoying the Obama/BigSis administration, lovin' it! He deserves it, but We The People sure as hell don't.
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#6. To: Vicomte13 (#4)
...and the result will be Hillary.
#8. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
... I don't waste too much time on these political threads.
#9. To: Gatlin, hondo68 (#8)
#10. To: Fred Mertz (#9)
Did you watch hondo's video?
You're proof that there's a sucker born every minute.
#21. To: Gatlin, Fred Mertz, hondo68 (#10)
You should know that willful blindness is the legal case for claim of ignorance
#22. To: Deckard (#21)
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble / When you're perfect in every way. / I can't wait / To look in the mirror.… ~ Mac Davis 1997.
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