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Demovictory9

(32,453 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 09:16 PM Oct 2019

The Trump Campaign Is Seeking 'Hidden' Women Voters.


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The working premise of the Trump campaign’s effort with women is that there is a hidden Trump voter — loosely defined as a woman who is unregistered, unpersuaded or less than vocal about her support for the president who can be identified and motivated to vote. If the campaign can reach enough of them, the thinking goes, the pollsters can be proved wrong.

Democratic pollsters concede that woman may exist.

“A lot of us are trying to correct for it,” Ms. Lake said, referring to voter surveys that Democrats are conducting. She said the woman the Trump campaign is likeliest to appeal to is white, without a college degree, married and likely to vote the way her husband does on Election Day.

She is also likely to hang up on pollsters, Ms. Lake said.

Jamie Starkweather, a 42-year-old from Battle Creek, Mich., is the type of woman campaign officials want to reach. Ms. Starkweather grew up a Democrat and voted for Mrs. Clinton in 2016, then married a conservative and stopped working shortly after the election. Her husband’s trucking business, she said, is doing well under this economy.

Ms. Starkweather, who holds an associate degree, said she began to dislike what she saw as an intense focus on racial issues on social media, which she blames on liberals. Ms. Starkweather pointed to Mr. Trump’s support among people like Candace Owens, who has rallied black supporters of the president, as evidence that he is not racist.

“If he’s so racist, and if he’s such a bad man,” Ms. Starkweather added, “then why are these people supporting him?”

To Ms. Starkweather and other Trump supporters, the accusations about Mr. Trump’s abusive or misogynistic behavior toward women — including comments on the leaked “Access Hollywood” audio taped in which Mr. Trump bragged about grabbing women by the genitals — are outdated indiscretions committed long before he entered politics.

“He was a little bit of a playboy,” Ms. Starkweather said. “Everybody knows that.”

Ms. Pierson, one of the few African-Americans on the Trump campaign, acknowledged the difficulty of finding such voters at a campaign event in the Detroit suburbs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/politics/trump-women-voters.html
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The Trump Campaign Is Seeking 'Hidden' Women Voters. (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2019 OP
There aren't enough trailer parks in all of Alabama. TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #1
Doesn't Romney have a folder of women he could use? California_Republic Oct 2019 #2
BINDERS ! dweller Oct 2019 #6
Yes! Thanks California_Republic Oct 2019 #9
This is the only way republicans can get women. yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2019 #3
Fuck off, tRump campaign Blue Owl Oct 2019 #4
We know one of those women. rickford66 Oct 2019 #5
um, they're not "hidden" dweller Oct 2019 #7
or, they're manufacturing an excuse for a surprise (rigged) outcome Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #8
This. SlogginThroughIt Oct 2019 #10

rickford66

(5,523 posts)
5. We know one of those women.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 11:18 PM
Oct 2019

She's a waitress, about 35 or 40, at one of our favorite restaurants. She said she's never registered or voted, but her boss is making her register. Too late for this year, but she's getting ready for next year. Her boss's family emigrated here from Italy on the Andrea Doria (before it sunk of course).

dweller

(23,629 posts)
7. um, they're not "hidden"
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 11:28 PM
Oct 2019

they are hiding from the pussy grabber ...

big difference there 🤔

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on edit, this line?
"Democratic pollsters concede that woman may exist. "

wtf

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