# Trump's Republican primary campaign

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/1655 "2016-01-31T04:44:11Z")

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> [@Jesus' Siblings and Virgin Birth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-siblings-and-virgin-birth/206/21):
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> Not getting why you think it is so odd. Just shy of half White union household voters voted against Obama, inclusive of those government worker and teacher union members. That those same voters are likely to also vote for Trump seems to be a reasonable presumption.
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> How many of the 53% of White union household voters that voted for Obama are likely to defect to Trump in a Trump Clinton match-up, is the question I guess.  
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Just the numbers don’t match up enough to say “much of” those uneducated whites were union members. By your account 62% of 60 million (# who voted against Obama) were uneducated whites, about 38 million. There’s only 14 million total union members in the U.S. - that includes black and educated union member. Istm safe to assume the vast majority of noneducated whites who voted against Obama were NOT union members not “much” of them.

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