11/11/16, "Michael Moore: They Voted For A Guy Named ‘Hussein’ Twice, Trump Voters Are Not Racist," Daily Caller, Rachel Stoltzfoos
"Michael Moore disputed the notion that all the people who voted for President-elect Donald Trump are racist Friday, reiterating the fact that millions of them voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
“They’re not racist,” Moore said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “They twice voted for a man whose middle name is Hussein. That’s the America you live in.”
Moore was pushing back against another panelist who said “deep racial animus” at the heart of the country was behind Trump’s win.
“What I’m trying to get at, is at the heart of this country is some deep racial animus that animates the very communities we’re trying to lift up,” Eddie Glaude Jr., chair of the African American department at Princeton University told the panel.
“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough replied: “I have to repeat it again because it’s maddening. People who live by data should die by data, and the data according to Nate Cohn of the New York Times says this, and let those who have ears to hear, hear: The very people who helped elect Barack Obama president of the United States twice just elected in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Donald J. Trump. It’s the data.”
Moore took it from there. “You have to accept that millions of people who voted for Barack Obama, some of them once, some of them twice, changed their minds this time. They’re not racist. They twice voted for a man whose middle name is Hussein. That’s the America you live in.”
Rammesh Ponnuru echoed Moore and Scarborough’s sentiment in a Bloomberg piece, taking issue with the notion that Trump won because White Americans are racist.
“Against that theory, I’d note, first, that Trump won several states that voted twice for our first black president,” he wrote. “The early exit polls suggest Trump won a tenth of voters who approved of President Barack Obama’s job performance. If that’s close to true, it means he wouldn’t have won without those voters.”
He continued: “And as I’ve noted in this space before, claims that bigotry are a major motivation for Trump voters have a thin evidentiary basis: They classify conservative views that aren’t necessarily rooted in racial hostility as ‘racial resentment,’ they ignore the decline in bigotry over time, and they overgeneralize about a very large and in some ways diverse group of people.”"
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NY Times: "But Mr. Trump also won over millions of voters who had once flocked to President Obama’s promise of hope and change, and who on Tuesday saw in Mr. Trump their best chance."....
11/9/16, "Donald Trump’s Victory Was Built on Unique Coalition of White Voters," NY Times, Nicholas Confessore and Nate Cohn
"Donald J. Trump's America flowered through the old union strongholds of the Midwest, along rivers and rail lines that once moved coal from southern Ohio and the hollows of West Virginia to the smelters of Pennsylvania.
It
flowed south along the Mississippi River, through the rural Iowa
counties that gave Barack Obama more votes than any Democrat in decades,
and to the Northeast, through a corner of Connecticut and deep into
Maine.
And
it extended through the suburbs of Cleveland and Minneapolis, of
Manchester, N.H., and the sprawl north of Tampa, Fla., where
middle-class white voters chose Mr. Trump over Hillary Clinton.
One
of the biggest upsets in American political history was built on a
coalition of white voters unlike that of any other previous Republican
candidate, according to election results and interviews with voters and
demographic experts.
Mr. Trump’s coalition comprised not just staunchly conservative
Republicans in the South and West. They were joined by millions of
voters in the onetime heartlands of 20th-century liberal populism — the
Upper and Lower Midwest — where white Americans without a college degree
voted decisively to reject the more diverse, educated and cosmopolitan
Democratic Party of the 21st century, making Republicans the country’s
dominant political party at every level of government....
But Mr. Trump also won over millions of voters who had once flocked to
President Obama’s promise of hope and change, and who on Tuesday saw in
Mr. Trump their best chance to dampen the most painful blows of
globalization and trade, to fight special interests, and to be heard and
protected. Twelve percent of Mr. Trump’s supporters approved of Mr.
Obama, according to the exit polls.
But Mr. Trump won low-income white voters to the Republican ticket, reversing a partisan divide along class lines that is as old as the Democratic and Republican Parties — a replay of the “Brexit” vote in June, when the old bastions of England’s Labor-left voted decisively to leave the European Union. His breakthrough among white working-class voters in the North not only erased the Democratic advantage but reversed it, giving him a victory in the Electoral College while he lost the national popular vote.
Most
strikingly, Mr. Trump won his biggest margins among middle-income white
voters, according to exit polls, a revolt not only of the white working
class but of the country’s vast white middle class. He did better than
past Republicans in the sprawling suburbs along Florida’s central
coasts, overwhelming Mrs. Clinton’s gains among Hispanic voters. He held
down Mrs. Clinton’s margins in the Philadelphia suburbs, defying
expectations that Mrs. Clinton would outperform Mr. Obama by a wide
margin....
Mr. Trump’s America proved the larger on Election Day.
It smashed through the Democrats’ supposed electoral “blue wall” — the
18 states carried by Democrats in every election since 1992, such as
Michigan and Pennsylvania, plus the diverse and well-educated parts of
the country that Mr. Obama attracted in his two races, like New Mexico,
Nevada, Virginia and Colorado.
Starting
Wednesday, you could walk from the Vermont border through Appalachian
coal country to the outskirts of St. Louis without crossing a county Mr.
Trump did not win decisively. You could head south through rural and
suburban Georgia all the way to South Florida, or northwest through the
Upper Midwest, or make a beeline for the West Coast, skirting only the
rising Democratic communities of Colorado and the booming multicultural
sprawl of Las Vegas before finally reaching Mrs. Clinton’s part of the
country.
“It’s
not that he was the most polished of politicians,” said Justin
Channell, 36, of Brewer, Me., who works at a health insurance company.
“I liked the message of the anti-establishment, that corruption in D.C.
is so prevalent.”...
In
Miami-Dade County, where Mr. Trump had more room to lose ground among
Hispanic voters than anywhere else in the country, Mrs. Clinton inched
up to only 64 percent from Mr. Obama’s 62 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Turnout dropped considerably in black communities across the country,
from the rural South to Cleveland, Milwaukee and Detroit.
By
Wednesday, the notion of a Democratic electoral map advantage bolstered
by rising Hispanic power seemed distant. Even if Mrs. Clinton had won
Florida, Mr. Trump would have powered to victory through the new
Republican heartland, in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and
Michigan, where Hispanic voters represent just a fraction of the
electorate.
Nor
was the growing Hispanic vote — and Mrs. Clinton’s strength among
well-educated voters — enough to pull her especially close in either
Arizona or Texas, the only two heavily Hispanic states that could have
plausibly joined Florida to put her over the top."...
"A version of this article appears in print on November 10, 2016, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: White Voters in Broad Bloc Shaped Upset"
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