Here’s something I never expected to see.
I’m not sure what is terribly noteworthy about this. Trump received just under 22% of the vote in King county in 2016, over 200,000 votes. That doesn’t exactly make Trump supporters vanishingly rare in Seattle - if you live there you’re likely to know some personally( whether you are aware of it or not ). Heck Trump even got ~10% of the vote in indigo-blue San Francisco.
No modern community larger than probably a hundred or so people is 100% anything. Is anybody shocked Clinton got over a third of the vote in Dallas?
Republican billionairre supports Republican. Holy moly at 11.
I never expected to see THAT! Mind blown!
There’s a nationwide trend that the counties with the largest numbers of Trump voters are also the counties with the highest proportions of Clinton voters. Big cities just have lots of people, of every political stripe.
Interesting that 40% of Trump donors in Washington donated in 2017 or 2018. Kind of throws off a comparison to Sanders’ fundraising in 2019 only, not to mention that Dems in Washington will likely be contributing to 20 different candidates, just as R’s in Washington were donating to a dozen indifferent candidates. R’s this year, no matter which state, are only going to be donating to Trump (sorry Bill Weld).
The larger question you ignore, why would they have to hide in the first place? Perhaps, you have an explanation why, those supporters are worried about violent attacks against them? I could post videos but, why bother. You can google too.
Why would any Precinct have 100% for any candidate? Other than fraud, that is. We have seen Precincts with 110% of registered voters voting 100% for Obama. How many precincts had 100% for ANY Republican?
Oh have we? Do these precincts have names? Do tell!
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110% of voters, voting 100% for Obama, I mean I am bad at math but still a little confused by this.
As a Seattle-adjacent person, I can field this one. The answer is as follows:
Because if you live in this city - this culturally diverse salad bowl that calls people of all nations its home, where you can find a restaurant serving any kind of national cuisine as easily as you can find a 7-Eleven; this captain of industry that builds the machines that carry people to all corners of the world; this digital playground that connects people across thousands of miles; this beacon of creativity which has enlightened generations with its music; this sanctuary that welcomes all and gives every person who dwells within it the inalienable right to be who they want to be - and you support Donald Trump, then you are a goddamn tool.
Most of them are probably just worried that they’d lose business through customers’ non-violent and legal choices to stop patronizing them. Of course, information about political campaign donors is already publicly available. But Trump donors in general doubtless figure, not without reason, that if they keep their Trump support on the down low then most of the public is unlikely to go to the trouble of looking up their donation history.
I ain’t needed to read no words since I learnt to google fer videos.
Oh, that’s easy. Trump supporters are worried about violent attacks because they’re the sort of person who thinks everyone is as violent as them. Or at least, as violent as they would like to be, if they weren’t also cowards.
Enough with the hijack on violence. Stick to the topic.
I don’t think violence is a “hijack”, though - the thread is about why Trump supporters in Seattle felt the need to hide, and violence - or the fear of violence - is a perfectly logical reason to hide.
I’m not quite getting the point of this thread. Is the OP trying to make an argument that Washington state is going to make up for losses of Trump voters in places like Michigan, Pennsylvania and maybe Texas(!), that the polls are wrong (again), or what?
The point of the op though is that donations are up. That makes sense. There are a fair number of 0.1%ers there. In 2016 they may not have been sure that Trump would help them gain more power and a larger share of the pie. Now they are more sure. Any of the top D contenders will undo some of what Trump has done of that. That cannot be allowed by them to happen whatever the cost to society or the world at large.
I think his point is that Trump supporters are getting bolder, or, getting revved up for 2020 even though they are still in deep-blue turf in Seattle.