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2016 Postmortem

dhol82

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5. First, people only avoided it in areas where they could

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Fri Dec 23, 2016, 08:36 PM

Dec 2016

In the rust belt this was the only form of information.

The idiot msm only added to the indoctrination. They were preceded by 30 years of softening up of the electorate.

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this election may have been the new 1960. [View all] unblock Dec 2016 OP

I think right wing hate radio and Fox had more to do with it. dhol82 Dec 2016 #1

Sure, there were many factors and certainly that was a biggue unblock Dec 2016 #2

First, people only avoided it in areas where they could dhol82 Dec 2016 #5

Trump won by telling half the country what it wanted to hear Takket Dec 2016 #3

Yup. That was a bitch! dhol82 Dec 2016 #4

I think he did tell them what they wanted to hear WilliamH1474 Dec 2016 #6

With the orange psycho and his finger on the nuclear button, area51 Dec 2016 #7