The mainstream media has made a gazillion trips to “middle America” trying to understand Trump voters (pro tip, journalists: They’re stupid, no other explanation needed), but this article makes the claim that they’ve missed the bigger, more important picture: suburban women between the ages of 30 and 60 are mobilized politically like never before.
Democrats, and the people who study them, are still analyzing where Obama’s voters went, and these political scientists have the answer:
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.
Who were the refuseniks? Disproportionately, they were young African-Americans, but this analysis found the non-voters hold the same positions on issues as Clinton voters, so should be easier to win back than the Obama-to-Trump contingent.
Trump backpedals more than an NFL cornerback, this time on guns. Remember all that stuff about age limits and background checks?
Yeah, he doesn’t either. He’s now in near-lockstep with the NRA on those issues. He also wants to arm teachers, because why should cops be the only ones who get to shoot black kids?
Every story like that makes people pine for Robert Mueller’s investigation to get down to brass tacks, but reports like this one from Bloomberg claim that, though his probe on obstruction charges is nearly completed, he’s expected to hold off on any charges relating to it until other facets of the investigation are finished. It makes one feel like an 8-year-old in October growing impatient for Dec. 25.
Given its history, it’s hard to pin the general upheaval in the Middle East entirely on Trump, but Jared Kushner is giving it the old bought-my-way-into-college try, and his father-in-law’s temper compounds the problem. For example, the Qataris compiled evidence of Kushner’s secret meeting with the United Arab Emirates, but chose not to give it to Mueller because they feared the wrath of Trump.
Scott Pruitt might be the looniest cabinet secretary, but there’s little debate about who’s the dumbest — naturally, it’s the Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, who went on “60 Minutes” last night and stumbled over several of Lesley Stahl’s basic questions.
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