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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:29 PM Oct 2017

I finally met an Obama/Bernie/Trump voter. So at least one of them exists.

I don't know how we'll ever reach that group, however.

He said he didn't expect Trump to win and didn't think his Seattle vote mattered. He liked Hillary okay but didn't want her to have too big of a margin.

Just to make things even more confusing, he's a gay cop who doesn't particularly like the gay community. (He talked about the "Seattle freeze." I suspect he's lonely.) And he's hating Trump now but he won't promise not to vote for him again, depending on the circumstances. He says he'd vote for Elizabeth Warren in a heartbeat.

He says he voted for Obama. But Bernie's lost his vote in the future since he elevated Nina Turner, who the guy hates because of Black Lives Matter.

So how the heck are we supposed to deal with voters like this?

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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
3. I think there are many just as confused. Like the poor rural voters I saw on TV
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:32 PM
Oct 2017

who said they desperately need a higher minimum wage and thought DT was going to help them with that.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
10. I've thought that sums up the appeal of DT- naked self interest. They relate to that-
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:59 PM
Oct 2017

Even if they're too fucking stupid to realize DT will bite the hands that voted for him.

delisen

(6,043 posts)
5. its like buying a custom product or build your own
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:36 PM
Oct 2017

sundae candidate matched up with customized voiting options-send them a message, don't let likely winner have too big a margin......

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
8. He has to be yanking your chain
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:54 PM
Oct 2017

There are people that odd, but they're outnumbered by people pulling practical jokes.

pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
12. No. I spent two hours talking to him, since I was stuck there. When I summarize his points
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:03 PM
Oct 2017

he does sound crazy, but the effect was different during the course of a long conversation. We probably spent the first hour discussing why he doesn't like Seattle (and I do). And where he lived back East and where he went to college (same school as my brother.) Eventually that led into the political talk -- but spread out over the course of an hour, the inconsistencies weren't as glaring. It was only when I started to think about him afterwards that it hit me.

Xolodno

(6,390 posts)
14. He wants a "Savior".
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:04 PM
Oct 2017

Someone who represents everything to him...but disregards everyone else. Sad to say, Romney was correct, the vote is "locked in" to a point, and its all about the fickle and getting their vote...I could go on how the US needs at least a four party or more system, but I'll leave it there.

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
16. I knew people who voted for Gore in 2000 and then Bush in 2004.
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:06 PM
Oct 2017

There were plenty of voters like that.

HRC would have won in a landslide had it not been for a completely corrupted FBI.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
18. So he's a "surf & turf" of racism and misogyny, with a heaping helping of
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:18 PM
Oct 2017

self-hating homophobia on the side. Honestly, people like this are going to be absolutely impossible to reach. We can only hope that they have a flat tire on the way to the polling place on election day.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
19. This reminded me of...
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:35 PM
Oct 2017
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman
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