Sunday, May 22, 2016

Bernie live in OC; Myths about Trump (video)

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Teri Mei, Wisdom Quarterly; Jimmy Dore (TYT); E. Hutchinson
Jimmy Dore anchored The Young Turks (TYT) coverage of Bernie's OC talk live on Facebook.
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  • Monday, May 23rd is the deadline to register to vote in California or to switch to NPP (no party preference) or Republican. Vote in the June 7th Democratic primary (must be a Democrat for mail-in but not on the day of the primary when a form can be requested. (Details: registertovote.ca.gov). See Mary Plummer's Human Voter Guide (scpr.org).
The Dark Lord vs the Great White Hope -- which is which? Who cares. Anybody but Hillary!

Self-Deluding Myths About Trump
Who are the REAL backers of Donald Trump?
Earl Ofari Hutchinson (PasadenaWeekly.com, May 20, 2016)
Republicans rule nation with Democratic leaders (Tom Tomorrow/thismodernworld.com)

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Dictator Putin and Strongman Don kiss.
The prototypical Trump backer is a "poorly educated blue-collar white male laborer, or a farmer in the backwoods of the Deep South or Midwest who alternately fears and loathes blacks, Hispanics, gays, liberals, Obama, and Big Government"? This is a dangerous myth and a self-deluding myth.

That's hot. Look at those two huge guys.
In December 2015 a Democratic data firm named Civis Analytics surveyed more than 11,000 Republican-leaning voters.

It found that -- far from the stereotypical ignorant bumpkin who is the butt of much ridicule used to explain away the Trump phenomenon -- actual Trump backers defied popular preconceptions: There are huge numbers of young, college-educated business people, professionals, Hispanics, and women who all said they’d vote for Trump.

Killary Hinton
In the survey, Trump got the backing of roughly 30 percent of those under 29, nearly one-fourth (25%) of Hispanics, and a quarter (25%) of those who held Bachelor’s degrees or higher.

The demographic of Trump backers held up in the primaries. In the Northeast states and the Midwest, Trump scored just as big with well-to-do college-educated voters in the suburbs as he did with blue-collar voters everywhere else. More

NEXT RALLY: Lincoln Heights (East Los Angeles) on Monday morning
and Santa Monica High School in the afternoon. California, May 23, 2016.

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