These Iowans voted for Trump. Many of them are already disappointed.

[DonViejo]

By Jenna Johnson February 26 at 6:30 PM

CLINTON, Iowa — Tom Godat, a union electrician who has always voted for Democrats, cast his ballot for Donald Trump last year as “the lesser of two evils” compared to Hillary Clinton.

He’s already a little embarrassed about it.

There’s a lot that Godat likes about President Trump, especially his pledge to make the country great again by ignoring lobbyists, challenging both political parties and increasing the number of good-paying jobs. But Godat was surprised by the utter chaos that came with the president’s first month. He said it often felt like Trump and his staff were impulsively firing off executive orders instead of really thinking things through.

“I didn’t think he would come in blazing like he has,” said Godat, 39, who has three kids and works at the same aluminum rolling plant where his father worked. “It seems almost like a dictatorship at times. He’s got a lot of controversial stuff going on and rather than thinking it through, I’m afraid that he’s jumping into the frying pan with both feet.”

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[Coventina]

1. I have no fucks to give for Tom Godat. He is clearly an idiot.

Trump said he was going to be a dictator, and Godat has the gall to say he's surprised by it?!?!?!

EACH AND EVERY TRUMP VOTER PLEASE GO DIRECTLY TO HELL!!!

[Ohioblue22]

19. 53% of white women voted for him

[Coventina]

22. And, they also need to go directly to hell.

Each and every Trump voter is a traitor to America.

[58Sunliner]

23. Do you have a source?

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The information I have found breaks down the voters who voted for asshat as follows-
25.6% of eligible voters, voted for him. Of that number
9% AA
30% Latino/Cuban
Asian Americans voted 29% for asshat, that is to say, 29% of the total number of Asians who voted. I have yet to find what percent of the 25.65% that constitutes. I'm assuming 7.42%
Asshat got 42% of the female vote total.
Please tell me where you get 53% of white women? Is it 53% of the 42%?
If the 25.6% is the 100% of people who voted for DT and I subtract 30%, 9%, 7.4%?(Asian vote) what am I left with? 100-45.4 equals @54.6% white people, approximately. Which does not equate to 53% of white women. As we know more white men voted for DT than women.
It is misleading to say 53% of white women voted for him without a second qualification.
A statistic has at least two parameters- 53% of white women who voted? Which is not simply 53% of white women. That would assume that 100% of white women voted, which I doubt as only @58% of eligible voters voted.
The only figure that makes sense is the percent of white women of the total percent of women who voted for DT, which is 53% of 42% which is 22.26%.
Does anyone have different info?

[Maru Kitteh]

34. I found a few sources for you

Nate Silver
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-couldnt-win-over-white-women/

The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/hillary-clinton-white-women-vote/507422/

Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/09/white-women-supported-trump-over-clinton/1eULOYeUX6rJX3l2Ie7RNO/story.html

Welcome to DU!

[Maru Kitteh]

46. I think you might be mixing some apples and oranges in your sub-sets there.

53% of the white women who cast a ballot for president in 2016, voted for Donald Trump.

42% of all women who cast a ballot for president in 2016 voted for Donald Trump.

Those are your apple data sets.

The number of eligible voters who cast a ballot in the election (or did not) are your oranges.

You could use the data to figure the percentage of white women eligible to vote who cast a ballot for Trump, but that is not the population represented by the cited figure of 53% of the white female vote received.

I hope this helps a little?

[mythology]

35. Trump did not get 25.6% of the votes cast

Trump got 54% of the votes cast by white women. You can parse it all you want, but we don't count potential votes. Showing up to vote counts.

[Ohioblue22]

41. i put percentage of white women who voted for trump

and got many sites saying this


For white women in particular, now is the time to look in the mirror. Ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton. Sixty-eight percent of Latina women did so. But 53 percent of the white female voters in this country voted for Donald Trump.

[gopiscrap]

47. welcome to DU

[Blue_true]

49. Then 53% of White women would vote for Satan in full dress, if he said what they like to hear. nt

[ananda]

25. I know.

It's as though they filtered what 45 said through some kind of translation device in their heads, so they could make it sound like something else.

Then when he actually does what he said he would do, they don't get it.

That is a very special brand of idiocy and mental illness.

[Blue_true]

50. They filtered it through the prism of their hate for "others".

The union guy that mentioned most of his barmates were conservatives used the code for "we will vote for Satan as long as he promises not to hurt our interests".

[rpannier]

2. Fuck You Tom Godat nt

[Lotusflower70]

3. Whatever

He started a sentence with I didn't think, that's it in a nutshell. That's all I need to know. Way to go dumbass! Uninformed voters suck.

[NotThisTime]

4. We need his vote for the next election... THIS is the type of voter we need back.

He's a reasonable guy, we need him back. Right now we have what we have, but please keep your eyes on the next election.

[Coventina]

6. Nope. He is not reasonable. He didn't vote for a reasonable candidate.

There was nothing "surprising" about Trump.

He was obviously what he now is.

Anyone surprised is an idiot.

[hatrack]

14. He's a union guy who voted for the Shitstain

Good luck getting him back.

[Progressive dog]

17. Next time he will vote for whoever tells him

what he wants to hear. History repeats itself over and over and over again for this type of voter.

[Ohioblue22]

20. people need to suffer cause it's the only way the will get in the game

[heaven05]

5. this person

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is still an idiot, doesn't know his own subconscious thinking(racist, sexist, xenophobic). To hell with his "disappointment" and all who voted for the boy-potus puppet of prezidents bannon and miller. I feel NOTHING but rage and disgust at ALL boy-potus voters. They would, with enough propaganda, return all immigrants to country of origin by any means possible, would enslave and totally segregate POC again. Fuck this asshole.

[nolabels]

18. You can bet also he tried to put a little bit of a spin on it for the reporter (see bio at bottom)

And of course, the reporter had a lot of clean up to do before finishing the story. Me thinks many a newspaper be trying to cover their Arses before some real ^#% stuff breaks out.

[LonePirate]

7. Idiots one and all. Their tears of disappointment taste so sweet.

[dalton99a]

8. This is more proof that people voted for Trump not because they were poor or in danger of being poor

unless you define $60K-$100K/yr as poor.

[Else You Are Mad]

32. Exactly.

The average income of a Trump voter was $75,000 a year. The idea that the only people that voted for Trump were poor white trash that are uneducated is simply not the truth. If we keep on pushing the idea into the public that all of the people that voted for Trump are poor white trash, we will never win back the once Democratic voters that voted for Trump. And, no matter how much we hate to admit such, we desperately need those voters back in 2018 and 2020.

[mcar]

9. Tom should be very embarrassed

[BSdetect]

10. Classic dumbed down American voter.

He could not detect some warning signs over the entire election period? Nothing to indicate a madman was running to be his president?

Well, now he wakes up a bit?

[n2doc]

11. Maybe he can have his sons go work at the meat packing plant after all the 'illegals' are deported

The American Dream, sucker.

[hatrack]

15. Yes, I hear starting pay is a tasty $10/hour

.

[n2doc]

33. toon

[Proud Liberal Dem]

39. That high?

n/t

[HughBeaumont]

12. "How stupid are the people of Iowa?" - Donald Trump.

Well . . . .

[mountain grammy]

13. I just didn't think....

that's all you need to say, Tom. And you sure as fuck didn't think about your three children.

[BeyondGeography]

16. Boy, this guy is a gem

Basically says, a) Trump is fucking up the farm economy, which is true, b) He likes much of what Trump is doing and, c) People need to stop protesting and give him a chance:

“He’s really hurting us, even though everybody around here is conservative,” Schurbon said, thumping his bottle of Budweiser on the table to emphasize some of his points. “When you cut off trade, that cuts off everything. Where do our crops go? They don’t stay here.”

But still, Schurbon likes much of what Trump is doing — and he wishes protesters would give him a break. The day before, hundreds descended on an event hosted by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) just up the road in Maquoketa.

“Everybody might at least try. At least a little bit. Just try and help,” he said. “You don’t have to agree with him, but you don’t have to just completely block him, everything he’s doing.”

He also falls asleep watching Fox every night.

[Maru Kitteh]

36. Translation: "He wasn't supposed to hurt US - We're conservatives! He was supposed to hurt

all the brown people and lazy liberals."

Fuckers. Let them burn with the rest of us. Good.

[BeyondGeography]

43. Because nothing screams trustworthiness louder than a litigious, 6X-bankrupt, thrice-married,

pu$$y grabbing failed casino operator who routinely stiffs the help!

He does speak fluent Angry White Man though.

[Bengus81]

21. Union worker votes for Trump??? Lesser of two evils??

Really FUCKING tired of hearing that excuse but I'm going to guess that Clinton wouldn't have been for DESTROYING Unions. What do you think Tommy boy?? Your union is running on empty with Trump and his ilk at the switch.

[Vinca]

24. There was a Muslim woman on Bill Maher the other night who said she voted for Trump and

apparently she doesn't regret it. She said she felt as if she had a "Trump translator" inside her head so if Trump said something outrageous she knew what he really meant. I think she's got a loose screw in her head.

[Maru Kitteh]

38. Yet another reason to skip Maher. Having so many stupid people on your show

makes your show pretty stupid.

[Blue_Tires]

26. I'm just going to bite my tongue

since we have to treat these kinds of voters with kid gloves lest we offend their delicate sensibilities...

[dalton99a]

28. Silence is good

"Neither woman could name a thing the president has done that they liked, but they both said that protests and negative commentary are not helping."

[Blue_Tires]

29. Of course they'd say that

[raccoon]

31. What stupid women. nt

[dmosh42]

27. Putin's Pinkoes!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

30. Suckers.

[Starry Messenger]

37. Economic anxiety, my ass

Godat commutes more than 30 miles south to Bettendorf, where he gets paid a base wage of $34 per hour to help prepare aluminum used for airplanes and cars. There’s a shortage of trained electricians, and last year Godat said he worked 600 overtime hours, bringing his total pay to about $110,000. His wife provides in-home care for the elderly.

“He’s doing what he said he was going to do, that’s the biggest thing,” said Tyler Schurbon, 23, who describes himself as a “progressive Republican” who falls asleep watching Fox News each night. “A lot of people get into the presidency, and they just completely forget what they talked about.”

Schurbon trims trees for power companies, a full-time union job that pays $60,000 per year and full benefits. He drives a nice pickup truck and bought a two-story farmhouse for $50,000 last year.

“That’s pretty good living for not having a college degree,” Schurbon said.

Fuck them both.

[CrispyQ]

40. My BIL voted for Trump because "people want change."

He called last week, ripped on wine, & whined to my husband, "He's not going to fuck us, is he?" "Hell yes he's going to fuck you," my husband responded.

[Initech]

44. Boo fucking hoo! You own this mess! Live up to it!

Don't come crying to us because of this shit.

[Blue_true]

48. The regrets of those people bring to mind a scene from the

series "Law and Order". The hardass prosecutor had trapped the suspect, who was testifying for himself. After the suspect uttered that he should have known better based upon what he saw, the prosecutor said "What did you expect, what did you reasonably expect?". Voters that voted for Trump after observing his policy proposal free campaign and his repeated failure to minimally grasp the simplest aspects of how government works, should not be surprised to get shat on by him.

[still_one]

51. Everyone who voted for trump knew trump was a racist, sexist, and

still voted for him