Too long- didn't readJohnStOnge wrote:I know you're trolling but I just heard reports on both NPR and CNN today of a newly issued study concluding that it wasn't the economy. Then I saw Fareed Zakaria talking about it and referencing a couple of studies while referencing his column at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 79e2b40ddf.HI54UNI wrote:
Don't forget the economy.
Some language from the column:
That's consistent with what I've been saying exit polling showed for months now. Any rational person looking at that exit polling knows that Trump didn't get elected because of the economy. He got elected because there's a core of people who don't like illegal immigration and who are very concerned about terrorism. Additionally, he got 80% of the White Evangelical Christian vote. The fact that he got a higher percentage of that vote than George W. Bush, John McCain, or Mitt Romney got tells you...or SHOULD tell you if you're being rational...that cultural issues played a huge role. Stuff like those White Evangelical Christians seeing the Supreme Court foist homosexual marriage upon States that didn't want it, the transgender bathroom stuff, etc.The Public Religion Research Institute and the Atlantic also conducted an important study to analyze the most powerful predictors of whether a white working-class American would vote for Trump. The top predictor was if someone identified as a Republican, a reminder that party loyalty is very strong. But after that, the two best predictors were “fears of cultural displacement” and support for deporting undocumented immigrants. Those who felt their economic conditions were poor or fair were actually slightly more likely to vote for Hillary Clinton.
The idea that Trump won because of the economy is a total myth. Again: ALL of the polling before the election, the exit polling, and polling since the election shows that people who considered the economy as highly important to their decision voted majority Clinton. And I'll say that again even though I know you were just trolling.
I guess it doesn't really matter if people continue to believe something that isn't true. But the idea that Trump won because of the economy just isn't true. He won because of the kinds of stuff about Republican voters that Democrats like to stereotype Republican voters on.
Surely you acknowledged the role of the economy in there somewhere
asshole