100 Yr tradition ends, Ohio Paper endorses Hillary Clinton for President

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Hillary Clinton landed a major endorsement on Friday from a leading newspaper in Ohio that hasn't backed a Democrat for president in roughly a century.

The Cincinnati Enquirer editorial board announced that it was backing Clinton over GOP nominee Donald Trump in a decision it said it "doesn't take lightly."

"[T]his is not a traditional race, and these are not traditional times. Our country needs calm, thoughtful leadership to deal with the challenges we face at home and abroad. We need a leader who will bring out the best in all Americans, not the worst," the editorial reads.

"That’s why there is only one choice when we elect a president in November: Hillary Clinton," it added.

The editorial stated that both Trump and Clinton "have troubled relationships with truth and transparency." But while Clinton has "a known commodity with a proven track record of governing," Trump "is a clear and present danger to our country" and "has no history of governance."

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/297476-ohio-newspaper-bucks-tradition-endorses-clinton

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[Morphine Prince 109,792]

LMFAO. 

If this isn't a sign to the dumb Trump voting base idk what is. 

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10 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

LMFAO. 

If this isn't a sign to the dumb Trump voting base idk what is. 

Dumb Trump voting base? That's pretty rude.

From the Economist:

"Most analysis of Donald Trump’s support in the primary elections has focused on his appeal to poorer, working-class white voters, who are assumed to have lost the most to globalisation and are more open to his particular brand of populist politics. But his victory in the New York Republican primary on April 19th underscored his wider support across the party’s base. Mr Trump took 61% of the vote overall, winning across all demographic groups. That was to be expected in his home state. However, averaging out his support in all state primaries (where exit polling is available) shows that richer and better educated voters form as big a part of Mr Trump’s support base as those at the lower end of the income and education scales.

Take education: on average, voters with a high-school education or less have made up 16% of the Republican electorate overall and a fifth of Mr Trump’s voting base; but college graduates and postgraduates account for 43% of his support. Looking at income: voters earning under $50,000 have made up 29% of the electorate and 32% of Mr Trump’s support. Those earning over $100,000 have accounted for 37% of the electorate and 34% of his base. In Illinois, for example, he took 46% of the vote among low earners, but they made up only a quarter of the electorate, whereas he attracted 39% of the highest earners, who made up two-fifths of that primary's voters.

[...] the idea that it is mostly poor, less-educated voters who are drawn to Mr Trump is a bit of a myth. Only 13% of the votes in New York’s Republican primary came from New York city; the vast majority were from the traditionally more Republican upstate area. But the data show that he won the support of 52% of voters statewide earning under $50,000, and 64% of those earning over $100,000. It would seem Mr Trump is a broadly appealing fellow after all"

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/04/daily-chart-14

 

 

"Dumb Hillary voting base", more like.