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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Have you checked the unemployment rate in MI, WI & PA? 5.4% , 4.4% & 5.3% all 2%-3% lower than before the crash.
California's unemployment rate is 6.3% , higher than before the crash 
People who voted for Clinton are labelled "liberals" when a lot of us were Rockefeller Republicans and conservatives who refused to vote Trump. |
But how many people have just given up looking for work and aren't being counted in those numbers? Gallup puts the national real unemployment around 9.3%. Add in that a lot of people in those states are seeing their good paying jobs replaced with automation and robots (and some going overseas) and they are afraid. While Trump was promising to bring jobs back and help them keep their jobs (something he is likely going to be helpless to actually do) Clinton and the Democrats were focused on Black Lives Matter, which bathroom people should use, gay marriage, and being politically correct so as to not offend anyone.
I still think people overthink this election. Trump barely won and Clinton was a shitty candidate, but the Democrats right now remind me of what the Republicans were until recently. They are so focused on pleasing the base that they lose some of their more moderate members. The Republicans would still be doing that if Trump hadn't gotten the nomination and the only reason they didn't pander as much with Trump is because they know Trump is a phony and the base would see through him. Still, the Republican base turned out for him and the young people that Clinton was counting on didn't turn out for her.