{"id":9151,"date":"2019-11-25T16:36:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=9151"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:47:15","slug":"the-rust-belt-stands-pat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/25\/the-rust-belt-stands-pat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rust Belt Stands Pat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May I read Salena Zito&#8217;s book &#8220;The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics,&#8221; in which she interviewed a varied sample of Trump voters in the rust belt and identified why they abandoned the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/23\/rust-belt-voters-on-trump-id-vote-for-him-again-in-a-heartbeat\/\">this article<\/a> she went and checked back with these same voters to see if they had changed their minds.\u00a0 Apparently their resolve is even stronger than in 2016 that Trump is their man.\u00a0 And this jibes with the polls taken in these vitally important states.\u00a0 Formerly, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin were part of the Great Lakes Blue Wall that would prevent any Republican from ever entering the White House again.\u00a0 But instead of adding Ohio to that Blue Wall it looks like Minnesota may be turning red instead.That would complete the Red Wall from Lake Erie to Lake Superior.\u00a0 Or let us say from the Atlantic Ocean in Philadelphia to the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca in Minnesota.\u00a0 Apparently the demographic future we&#8217;ve all heard so much about isn&#8217;t quite there yet.<\/p>\n<p>Zito is a personal writer.\u00a0 Her story isn&#8217;t about statistics.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about individual people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like the Trump rallies.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a personal connection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatfinger.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7742\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3909\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4.png 3909w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-768x167.png 768w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-1024x223.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3909px) 100vw, 3909px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May I read Salena Zito&#8217;s book &#8220;The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics,&#8221; in which she interviewed a varied sample<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237,6],"tags":[1799,103,2205,1347,1066],"class_list":["post-9151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","category-trump","tag-2020-election","tag-deplorables","tag-forgotten-men","tag-salena-zito","tag-the-great-revolt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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