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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I don't entirely understand all that though. I think that may be true for the rust belt area. But around where I live in VA, everything is vibrant and booming. I don't know anyone of any class who can't find a job easily. Restaurants and shops are getting built like crazy, houses are selling fast and being built at a rapid pace. Yet, I still hear a group of people say that the economy sucks, everything is awful, and it is all Obama's fault. They just never could admit that things could be good under Obama. Maybe that's why Hillary won here and he won the rust belt.
I do wish Clinton could have made a better argument that the jobs Donald wants back are 1) never coming back and 2) not the kind of jobs we really want anyway.
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It's not too surprising. If you ask the average person about whether there's more or less crime than there used to be they tend to assume that crime rates are going up, even though that's demonstrably false. This election more than any other I can remember illustrates that it's feelings, not facts that really matter in an election.