CNN: town in Kentucky votes Republican after 144 years of voting Democrat

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7. I know which town that is. They weren't a progressive bastion really, but it is shocking.

In the last 10 years they have completely flipped. Almost 2-1 Democrat to 2-1 Republican. I think there are a lot of reasons: one is just that we (rightfully) don't have the social conservatism that Democrats used to be known for, which I think is some more well off people's only reason for voting. But unfortunately, a lot of the poor people in those areas have just stopped voting, or even gone over to the Republican side. They think we don't care about them either; it's way more complicated than they know, but they voted for Obama twice and things objectively got worse for people in that area. People vote based on really simplistic reasons like that.

Trump ain't gonna make anything better though. We might get a lot of those people back just because Trump makes things worse. Or, and I'm afraid this is Trump's plan, he's gonna go out of his way to prop up the economy (in a way the Republicans never let Obama do) just to get people enough on his side so he can enact some tyrannical nonsense. That's exactly what Hitler did.