Pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
You don't think Obama sold out the Democratic base? It's a big reason for the Trump win. The moderates switched.
I know you were replying to DG but how did Obama sell out the Democratic base?
Moderates didn't like Hillary. They would have voted again for Obama.
But give an example of something he caved on to the Republicans that lost votes from the left or middle?
FL, OH, PA, MI, WI
That's the whole election that flipped.
I don't know what Obama may have done to turn them.
What I saw is that Trump appealed to them more than Hillary.
And that's baffling. Florida is a mixed crowd. Old people and Latinos, anything can happen there.
But the other states were about the working class feeling left out and bought Trump's BS.
They thought some rich guy that makes money off if his name and has a history of not paying his bills knew something about getting raises for the common folk.