(05-27-2016, 11:38 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: What we're seeing is those same "Northern Cities" states where Trump did well in the GOP primary are showing their true "color." The truth is, the so called "Hard Hats" who vote GOP up there are still a minority within the "Hard Hat" demographic. Most of the Union people still vote Dem. People of color in those states are like 90% Dem. Educated whites up there mostly vote Dem.
We are going to see a similar pattern here in CA in both the Primary (GOP one's now a moot point but the vote will still be interesting) and General.
I think that we are going to see some of the same pattern in such Southern cities as Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, and Atlanta. The polls seem to be tightening in the Southern states with big cities. North Carolina is close to the borderline between D and R, and I am not sure that I can call Florida or Virginia truly "Southern" any more. Watch the minority vote. Mexican-Americans in Texas are usually rather conservative on social issues -- but turn on the anti-intellectualism and the bombastic rhetoric about deportation, and they could really turn on Trump.
Do I see Hillary Clinton picking up Texas? No. Winning it by 6% instead of 12% bodes ill for the GOP. Such indicates that the media have already called Florida and Ohio for Clinton.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.