Then, seniors who are comfortably retired, mostly thanks to Medicare, and supported the moron (The Villages and others) will have the rug pulled out from under them and it'll be too late.

most of them are not so rich that they won't also be harmed by these policies.

to the F'ing Moron and 5 want to Clinton. And this is the state that elected Bill govenor!

And they will never vote Dem
People get real

They can’t vote anybody into office. Instead they use their wealth to bamboozle the rest of us to vote against our own self interest.

Trump was elected by poor and middle class white voters.

you are quoting which source?

So Clinton won the election by 3 + million. But tRump won fairly easily be winning some key states and within those states, some key demographics.


This results at a national level have one outcome, while state specific numbers turn in a different result.

One might conclude that the targeted marketing had a big impact.

That's why we call them the 1% ers. 1 in 100.

Now we want to say that the wealthy are 47% of the country. I guess we can call them the 47%'ers. But I don't think that is too catchy.

But to your point and the others point, it all comes down to how we define wealthy. If we want to call people who are above the median wealthy, we can do that, but don't think anyone will give us much credit.

they are in the 1% but they are not even close. In fact, a lot of those people are a few paychecks away from bankruptcy. I know a few of them and while they pull in decent money they are in debt up to their eyeballs, yet they live way beyond their means.

These are Trump's "wealthy" middle/upper middle class voters. They really aren't that wealthy, but they are aspirational. I don't consider someone truly wealthy unless they can live of the income of their investments.

If they have to work for a living, they aren't wealthy. But so many of those people identify with the 1% who are screwing them over. These people need their jobs for health care, they need their paychecks. They will be in for a world of hurt once it all comes crashing down on them

That is not a huge income in a lot of places.

In my town that is kind of rich....

The OP assumes a broader generalization.

I make quite a bit more than what it takes to be middle income but not six figures and I am literally scraping by. Most of my income goes to rent (I live in a studio in the city) and a massive student loan. After food, public transportation, medication, dry cleaning and utility bills I have almost NO disposable income.

If I need clothes, shoes etc. I often have to ask my dad to help me out and I am fortunate that he is happy to do so - mostly because he doesn't want me to look like a slob. I can't imagine how hard it must be for a family to live on what I make or less to get by. Everything is just so expensive, particularly housing and it only seems to get worse. I am taking out a 401k loan just to get caught up because everything is falling apart and there is so much I need that I haven't been able to afford.

One of the biggest problems our country faces is that a huge percentage of our income/wealth/resources are owned by a very small percentage of our people.

The orange nutbag won the electoral college and got 47% of the popular vote.

If 47% of the people in this country are "filthy rich", then this country isn't really in all that bad of shape.

The divide is truly staggering.

That's a lot of people. Among those who make between 50k and 99.9k, Trump got 50% of the vote. Trump barely beat Clinton among those who make 100k or more per year.

Race was, as usual, the single biggest factor.

Republicans who get hurt by Republican policies just blame Democrats, while taking comfort in the knowledge that persons of color are hurt worse.

The top 10% of the country? Because that only includes 10% of the population. Because math...

However I live in a very blue city so most of the well off, educated people here vote for democrats. You can literally see it by looking at district maps. It's also rural, the western part of the state is very red, while the areas around Boston, even the very wealthy areas, go blue.