Month: July 2017

4 Reports on Voter Study Group – 2016 Election

Trump exploited the angst by US voters. Four reports have been written by group of academics. Political Divisions in 2016 and Beyond Race, Religion, and Immigration in 2016 The Story of Trump’s Appeal The Five Types of...

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Economic Anxiety? No.

So a new study came out, and guess what, it wasn’t so much economic anxiety as…yep! …. immigration anxieties. voters study group H/T digby So they voted for the black guy, then got scared of what they had done...

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Open Thread – Update

A good place to stick a link to a news article that one wants to share and for which one has little to nothing to add. (I’ve stopped my use of “O/T” comments in FP threads because it had become another thing...

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What Does Poppy Think of Trump’s Twitter Habit?

One of the first freakouts the right engineered after Barack Obama became president occurred only one week after he took office in 2009. They managed to win a full article in the New York Times dedicated largely to the fact that...

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