Mark III
06-06-2016, 11:21 AM
Is Barack Obama A Muslim ?
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/birtherism-and-bigotry-these-are-vile-impulses-driving-voters-trump-stop-thinking-its
(http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/birtherism-and-bigotry-these-are-vile-impulses-driving-voters-trump-stop-thinking-its)
excerpt
."....It’s not as if the other Republican candidates were touting diversity and political correctness. What is it that most of these people do have in common that would draw them to Donald Trump? Philip Klinkner, professor of government at Hamilton College set out to find out and the answer isn’t pretty. Via Vox:
(http://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11833548/donald-trump-support-race-religion-economy)
You can ask just one simple question to find out whether someone likes Donald Trump more than Hillary Clinton: Is Barack Obama a Muslim? If they are white and the answer is yes, 89 percent of the time that person will have a higher opinion of Trump than Clinton.
That’s more accurate than asking people if it’s harder to move up the income ladder than it was for their parents (54 percent), whether they oppose trade deals (66 percent), or if they think the economy is worse now than last year (81 percent). It’s even more accurate than asking them if they are Republican (87 percent).
Those results come from the 2016 American National Election Study (ANES) pilot survey. My analysis indicates that economic status and attitudes do little to explain support for Donald Trump.
Recall that Donald Trump was the King of the “Birthers,” the man who mainstreamed that inane conspiracy theory and continued to push it as recently as 2014:
Always remember, I was the one who got Obama to release his birth certificate, or whatever that was! Hilary couldn’t, McCain couldn’t.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)) June 29, 2014
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/483319727343665152)
“@futureicon (http://thenewstalkers.com/futureicon): @pinksugar61 (http://thenewstalkers.com/pinksugar61) Obama also fabricated his own birth certificate after being pressured to produce one by @realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)) November 23, 2014
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/536653754029047808)
How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s “birth certificate” died in plane crash today. All others lived
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)) December 12, 2013
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/411247268763676673)
People should be proud of the fact that I got Obama to release his birth certificate, which in a recent book he “miraculously” found.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)) August 22, 2013
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/370646987227414529)
This was his introduction to politics among the group of white voters who now revere him. It wasn’t economics or trade or even American pride that drew them. It was his cynical “othering” of the first black president and all that that culturally represented.
Klinkner did a series of elaborate regressions with a lot of data about these Trump voters. And after all is said and done, the analysis showed that these voters are primarily motivated by racial and ethnic animosity and resentment of social change. There’s just no way around it."
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/birtherism-and-bigotry-these-are-vile-impulses-driving-voters-trump-stop-thinking-its
(http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/birtherism-and-bigotry-these-are-vile-impulses-driving-voters-trump-stop-thinking-its)
excerpt
."....It’s not as if the other Republican candidates were touting diversity and political correctness. What is it that most of these people do have in common that would draw them to Donald Trump? Philip Klinkner, professor of government at Hamilton College set out to find out and the answer isn’t pretty. Via Vox:
(http://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11833548/donald-trump-support-race-religion-economy)
You can ask just one simple question to find out whether someone likes Donald Trump more than Hillary Clinton: Is Barack Obama a Muslim? If they are white and the answer is yes, 89 percent of the time that person will have a higher opinion of Trump than Clinton.
That’s more accurate than asking people if it’s harder to move up the income ladder than it was for their parents (54 percent), whether they oppose trade deals (66 percent), or if they think the economy is worse now than last year (81 percent). It’s even more accurate than asking them if they are Republican (87 percent).
Those results come from the 2016 American National Election Study (ANES) pilot survey. My analysis indicates that economic status and attitudes do little to explain support for Donald Trump.
Recall that Donald Trump was the King of the “Birthers,” the man who mainstreamed that inane conspiracy theory and continued to push it as recently as 2014:
Always remember, I was the one who got Obama to release his birth certificate, or whatever that was! Hilary couldn’t, McCain couldn’t.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)) June 29, 2014
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/483319727343665152)
“@futureicon (http://thenewstalkers.com/futureicon): @pinksugar61 (http://thenewstalkers.com/pinksugar61) Obama also fabricated his own birth certificate after being pressured to produce one by @realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)) November 23, 2014
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/536653754029047808)
How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s “birth certificate” died in plane crash today. All others lived
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)) December 12, 2013
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/411247268763676673)
People should be proud of the fact that I got Obama to release his birth certificate, which in a recent book he “miraculously” found.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump (http://thenewstalkers.com/realDonaldTrump)) August 22, 2013
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/370646987227414529)
This was his introduction to politics among the group of white voters who now revere him. It wasn’t economics or trade or even American pride that drew them. It was his cynical “othering” of the first black president and all that that culturally represented.
Klinkner did a series of elaborate regressions with a lot of data about these Trump voters. And after all is said and done, the analysis showed that these voters are primarily motivated by racial and ethnic animosity and resentment of social change. There’s just no way around it."