2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A few observations on "progressives" I've noticed from this election [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(15,044 posts)There were supposedly more Bernie supporters who later voted for Hillary than Hillary supporters who later voted for Obama in '08.
She received about the same number of total votes as Obama in 2012. Trump outperformed Romney.
I also suspect there's many voters who are so swayed by the influence of money in politics that they actually bought Trump's "self-funded campaign" and "fighting special interests" BS. A Pew Research poll indicated as much -- he was beating Hillary by 20% on that issue! Some of them might be reached again, especially since Trump is a pathological liar who only cares about himself (and that will be proven later), although it's probably better to focus on poor non-voters.
He surely caused some racists, who probably felt betrayed by Republicans distancing themselves from overt racism over the years, to wipe the dust off their their grandpa's old hood too.