I brought this to your attention a year ago, when I first saw the results breakdown, From Obama voters to Trump voters....
I offered it was because Obama was the outsider.
He struggled greatly to get re-elected.
That is why I say it’s not Trump, the person, who got elected, but the outsider.
A snippet from the New York Times:
Much of the political commentary since the presidential election has focused on two groups of party switchers: those who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 and those who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Trump voters who previously voted for Mr. Obama are the subject of intense fascination because they are viewed as providing critical insights into the racial and class dynamics that helped determine the outcome of the election. On the other side, many analysts see Romney voters who flipped to Mrs. Clinton as an illustration of how the Democratic Party now survives in significant part by appealing to more upscale voters.
Frustratingly, however, these perspectives play down the importance of a crucial group of disaffected voters: those who voted for Mr. Obama in 2012 but then failed to go to the polls in 2016. Because this group is disproportionately young and black, this erasure is racially tinged.
Our analysis shows that while 9 percent of Obama 2012 voters went for Mr. Trump in 2016, 7 percent — that’s more than four million missing voters — stayed home. Three percent voted for a third-party candidate.The article fails to address Obama's numbers in his first term, but the number is greater, which, I think led to the misconception that it was a party platform mandate...
If that were true, the midterm disaster would never had happened.
The party vocal and powerful leftist, driven by Hollywood and the media drove Obama off the cliff....
He never had a chance to moderate the message he was elected on.
The Dems held all branches, yet, they blame the republicans to this day....
DACA could have been sealed by now, etc.
Just say’n
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