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To: Mongo2116 who wrote (986688)	12/10/2016 2:32:26 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB locogringo Respond to of 1570842

the poor little homo snowflake Obama: I absolutely faced racism while in office 8 unyielding

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (986688)	12/10/2016 2:33:09 PM
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he's already the best president ever

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (986688)	12/10/2016 2:35:46 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bearcatbob FJB locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570842

TRUMP JUST CRUSHED A 144-YEAR-OLD DEMOCRAT RECORD Last month, President-elect Donald Trump swept up 70 percent of votes in Elliott County, Kentucky, which according to CNN had never before in its 147-year history voted for a Republican: No county in America has a Democratic streak as long as this improbable one in eastern Kentucky, which started voting for Democrats back when being a Democrat was an entirely different thing. Consider it: They voted for Barack Obama twice, for Bill Clinton twice, and a combined six times against George W. Bush, his father and Ronald Reagan. It’s not the kind of big county that will swing elections. There are just 4,581 registered Democrats in Elliott County. They far outnumber the 429 registered Republicans. They are either the greatest political anomaly in the country, or they value tradition so much that they resisted the countless generational and political shifts of the 147 years since the county’s founding. Never mind all of that — they voted for Donald Trump 70%-26%. Even as far back as 1872, when incumbent Republican President Ulysses S. Grant easily crushed five Democrat challengers, they still voted with the left in what was at the time the county’s first-ever presidential election. “For the first time, our farmers or our farm workers had a chance to earn an income,” retired local schoolteacher Gayle Clevenger said in regard to her county’s past. “They became loyal to the Democratic party and this was passed down by tradition from father to son to son to grandson, and has pretty much been the way we have voted.” So what changed? “When Donald Trump said he was for the little people, I thought he was talking to me,” explained local diner owner Judy Pennington, 71. “That’s when he got my vote.” “I didn’t particularly care for either one of them, but … I thought Trump would make a better president,” added retired carpenter Gene Johnson. “I didn’t think either one was qualified enough. Hillary, some of the things that she stood for, especially abortion, our Second Amendment, I didn’t — I couldn’t vote for her especially [because of] that.” And the best part is that, as Jon Smith at Fire Andrea Mitchell! pointed out, “The media can’t claim this is some racist county either, since they voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012.” Indeed.