Rural Voters Played A Big Part In Helping Trump Defeat Clinton

One Republican and one Democrat. Maybe the polls underestimated what turnout would be among demographic groups (such as white voters) who disproportionately supported Trump.

McAdam said the U.S. system, rooted in the Constitution, originally aimed at electing “really upstanding citizens who themselves would decide who the president was going to be”, an idea meant to address fears that poorly educated voters might be swayed by unsafe and alluring demagogues.

Furthermore, experts may have analytical variations as to how Hillary Clinton politically gone astray, but the “email” controversy during her term as Secretary of State certainly created homogeneousness among themselves.

SANDERS: Well, how do you deal with that issue is how you deal with all issues. However, the issues of the economy (85 percent) and terrorism (80 percent) were significantly higher concerns than foreign policy (75 percent) and health care (74 percent), wiping out any advantages Clinton had in the latter concerns. They were either all Democrats, or they included a few Republicans who were not in the loop. In Florida, it was 16 percentage points less than President Obama; Wisconsin, 20 percentage points smaller; and Pennsylvania, 19 percentage points less.

With the Republicans now in control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives for the first time since 1928, the extent to which that establishment reconciles itself with Trumpism – or the other way around – will have a major bearing on the course of American life in the coming years. People are going to say: it’s the millennials’ fault. Religion didn’t play a huge role in this campaign, but that’s likely because the GOP wouldn’t have come out on top in that game and the Democrats are generally unwilling to play it; while Hillary Clinton is a devout Methodist, Trump doesn’t exactly know his way around a Bible. Clinton also won the votes of millennials, those under the age of 30, who more than any other generation are bearing the burden of our failed economic paradigms. I just saw an article about the smugness of liberality in this country. I think the whole – the way that this happened in the first place is because we have not been open. But she just wasn’t charming.

“That’s the stuff millennials and the younger voters are paying attention to”.

“Keep in mind that a lot of candidates were in states that are leaning Democratic and someone like Ayotte and Kirk, they felt like they were in a really tough contest and they needed to appeal to the swing voter”, he said in an interview with NH Journal.

Head uphill from downtown Easton and you’ll find Lafayette College.

Instead, there seemed to be a new consensus that America was a seesaw: Republicans would continue to do well in midterm elections, with Democrats dominating the Electoral College and doing well down the ticket in presidential years, in perpetuity. I mean, that especially gets labeled. I should have upheld my civic duty, but I didn’t.

Cornell Republicans Chair Olivia Corn ’19 added that third-party candidacies were “especially important in this election, where both main party candidates were subpar”, echoing the exit poll findings of voter dissatisfaction.

But in reality, the demand has little chance of succeeding, because electors are chosen precisely for their faithfulness to their party. And she did, most notably with a college affordability plan Clinton announced after clinching the nomination, which borrowed heavily from Sanders’ agenda and was critical in securing the Vermont senator’s endorsement. Americans know a takeover has occurred, and they blame the establishment for it. Bernie Sanders during the primaries.

Northampton County, home to Easton, flipped from blue to red as well. Tellingly, The Times reported that close to four in 10 voters said they would be afraid for the country if Donald Trump was elected; three in 10 were wary of a Clinton presidency.

BARRIS: From Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, I think my show changed. This is particularly true of Republicans over the past eight years. Saying that Mrs Clinton was an uninspiring candidate without a compelling message doesn’t quite cover it.