Regretful Deplorable Trump Voters Are (Mostly) a Myth

[DemocratSinceBirth]

While running for president, Donald Trump promised to deliver universal health care without cutting Medicaid; lamented that America wastes trillions of dollars on doomed military adventures instead of investing in its schools and infrastructure; decried the influence of foreign governments and “international bankers” on our political system, while savaging Hillary Clinton for her ties to Goldman Sachs; bewailed the fact that Clinton was allowed to run for president while under FBI investigation; assured the “forgotten men and women” of rural America that they would be “forgotten no longer”; predicted that his election would restore the confidence of America’s allies; and explained that his supreme deal-making skills would make him a master of the legislative process — unlike typical politicians, who are “all talk, no action.”

Since winning the presidency, Trump has pushed a health-care bill that would cut Medicaid and increase the ranks of the uninsured by 24 million; proposed a budget that would raise military spending by $54 billion while slashing funding for education and transportation; appointed five Goldman Sachs alums to top positions in his White House; picked a foreign agent of Turkey’s Islamist government as his top national security adviser; acknowledged that the FBI is investigating his presidential campaign; called for gutting programs that provide job training and development to rural America; gotten into diplomatic spats with Mexico, Australia, and the United Kingdom; and failed to pass a single piece of major legislation, while the one bill he’s put some muscle behind appears poised for defeat.

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But while such “#Trumpgrets” do exist, they are aberrations: Only 3 percent of Trump voters regret their decision — and fewer than 1 percent wish they had voted for Hillary Clinton last fall — according to a new poll from Penn State’s McCourtney Institute of Democracy and YouGov.

What’s more, the poll doesn’t find all that much ambivalence among the 97 percent of non-regretful Trump backers. When these voters were asked, “If you could send a message to President Trump, what would it be?” most responded with variations on “stay strong,” “keep it up,” or “stay the course.” Only seven of the 327 (non-regretful) Trump voters surveyed offered a sharply critical message about the president’s performance.

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/regretful-trump-voters-are-mostly-a-myth.html

Dumb asses

[Horse with no Name]

1. There are several kinds of trump voters

the believers, the religious right who wanted to pack SCOTUS and those that were leaning Clinton until Comey interfered.

The believers(deplorables) will not sway. The religious right(deplorables) won't sway but those that changed their mind last minute are going to have some regrets.

[Jonny Appleseed]

2. I'm not believing that

They said the "silent Trump voter" didn't exist, hence Hillary would easily sail to victory according to polling data. But that was wrong.

[louis-t]

3. The scariest reply I get?

Even my own mother says "I know he's a terrible person, but.....Hillary emails, don't trust her, she said all those things, Benghazi, blah blah blah..."
The fear-mongering and propaganda from the right has succeeded.

[Kimchijeon]

5. Yeah, I agree, I see it too. The propaganda has worked

and FOX/hate radio pundits keep the illusion in place. The majority of the supporters don't know any better, and will never learn. If shit hits the fan for them on a personal level, they'll just blame whatever the pundits tell them to blame.

[Charles Bukowski]

4. Some perspective is in order.

Trump is still in his honeymoon phase, so that fact that 3% already regret voting for him is HUGE.

That translates to 1.89 million votes. Barring a miracle, Dem turnout should surpass 2016, so Trump needs to better his 63 million total to have any shot at winning a second term, and if he's lost 1.89 million voters already he's in DEEP shit.

Republicans could run a fresh steaming pile of horseshit as their nominee and get 60 million votes. Forget about any mass exodus or Trump voters, it's not happening. 3% is spectacular news.

[underpants]

6. They won't admit it AND they are waiting for the snake oil to start working