2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIn Trump, some Obama backers see a new champion of hope and change
By Marc Fisher August 5 at 9:35 PM
Eight years ago, they voted for the outsider, the excitingly different candidate who dared to say that the system wasnt working, the man who spoke of hope and change. This year, theyre voting for the outsider, the excitingly different candidate who dares to say that the system isnt working, the man who promises to make America great again.
They are Obama-Trump voters, and though the concept strikes many people in both parties as kind of weird, the people making those choices say theyre being quite consistent. In 2008, they wanted someone to shake things up, put the focus back on the middle class, reverse the countrys depressing sense of decline and stick it to the powers that be. This year, they still want the same things.
When a silver-tongued young senator from Illinois electrified huge crowds at rallies across the country in 2008, Lynette Anderson, a high school teacher watching from home in Kenosha, Wis., thought: This is a guy who can move mountains, especially on race relations. He wasnt entrenched, and I felt he had nothing to lose. As the first black president, and someone pretty new to the Washington political game, I thought he would take care of stuff, break some china.
But President Obama disappointed Anderson, who is now a guidance counselor at a pre-engineering high school. He turned out to be the same old same old, she said. The candidate who spoke eloquently on behalf of people who had been left behind by technological and economic change, who pledged to unite a polarized nation, turned out to be just another politician who couldnt push through the paralysis in Washington, Anderson said.
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(60,352 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)What a bunch of fucking idiots.
MBS
(9,688 posts)Demsrule86
(68,825 posts)Baloney, he is a creation of the GOP hate party...spawned by talk radio icons like Limbaugh, Hannity,Levin...etc. We should support Democrats on this site. Obama has done a great job. And let me tell you, hubs is an engineer and above 40 and has had not trouble finding a job. Maybe he should leave that part of Wisconsin where there is no industry thanks to Scott Walker ...his shitty governor.
MadBadger
(24,089 posts)n/t.
Demsrule86
(68,825 posts)is probably racist as shit. You have to be to follow Trump.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)BlueStateLib
(937 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Vote for trump....pretty ridiculous...but media will do anything to make this election look close
redStateBlueHeart
(265 posts)Apolitical type who only really pays attention during election season. First time voter for Obama in 2008 and 2012, voting for Trump this time. Go figure.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)A tactic to smear those who were opposite primarily to Clinton, yet who will vote for here to make 100% sure a Trump nightmare would not happen.
TheDonnasRule
(67 posts)...that they were right all along even in the face of damning contrary evidence. So it wouldn't surprise me if some Obama supporters side with Trump. But I doubt there are any Trump supporters who would switch.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)is good. That's what these supposed "Obama-Trump" voters don't realize. They want someone to "shake up D.C.", but Mr.Caterpillar Hair would come in and shake it up so much that it crumbles to the ground and this country is left with nothing. Obama is different because at least he was a Senator, law professor, and a community organizer prior to becoming a president, and he's not a knuckle-dragger. On the other hand, Mr.Caterpillar Hair knows zero about governance, he is a Twitter warrior, and has not held public office before.