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Re:Voters Backed Donald Trump Because He ‘Just Got It,’ Says... by matwood on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:25AM (#12930330)
People vote on more than one issue. No candidate is perfect, and it just so happens we ended up with two this time that were both pretty bad. An NPR podcast noted that some polls have found that ~40% of registered democrats polled voted for Trump. For those people at least, renegotiating NAFTA or blocking the TPP was more important than Trumps vulgarities or letting states decide on other social issues.

At this point, I would rather to not see anything else about Trump on HN until something actually happens. But here I am, sucked in to comment...

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Re:Voters Backed Donald Trump Because He ‘Just Got It,’ Says... by WalterSear on Friday November 11, 2016 @10:21AM (#12931365)
> An NPR podcast noted that some polls have found that ~40% of registered democrats polled voted for Trump.

No it didn't, and they didn't.

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Re:Voters Backed Donald Trump Because He ‘Just Got It,’ Says... by matwood on Friday November 11, 2016 @10:26AM (#12931419)
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/10/501...

Of Brigade's verified voters, 40 percent of registered Democrats pledged to vote for Trump.

I guess we can argue about wording or say the data is wrong, but this is what NPR said this morning.

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Re:Voters Backed Donald Trump Because He ‘Just Got It,’ Says... by WalterSear on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:03PM (#12933323)
>Of Brigade's verified voters

Brigade is a billionaire's vanity project. It's userbase isn't representative of anything, and it's not a 'poll'.

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