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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:07 PM Apr 2018

This stinks of corruption...

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This stinks of corruption... (Original Post) pbmus Apr 2018 OP

America is UNDER ATTACK as I type this by both domestic and foreign enemies. Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1

Half? Try 1% knowingly... and maybe 20% of the low-info population votes Republican DemocracyMouse Apr 2018 #2

No. He has almost 40% of the POPULATION support which is close enough to half for me Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. America is UNDER ATTACK as I type this by both domestic and foreign enemies.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:14 PM

Apr 2018

This person is one of them.

Yet, we do next to nothing, MYSELF included.

Maybe it is that we never prepared for such a situation where half of the country commits treason?

DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)

2. Half? Try 1% knowingly... and maybe 20% of the low-info population votes Republican

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:36 PM

Apr 2018

"Some 63 million votes were cast for Trump out of America’s 250 million adults."

The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/american-non-voters-election-donald-trump

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

3. No. He has almost 40% of the POPULATION support which is close enough to half for me

Reply to DemocracyMouse (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:37 PM

Apr 2018

TODAY, not during campaign when they could have an excuse

TODAY almost 40% polled support him, of all of us, not voters.

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