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Tim Reid
... In the mostly rural, heavily Baptist and predominately Trump-supporting terrain, the collective reaction ranges from ignorance about the Russia investigation, to a belief that some media want to destroy Republican President Donald Trump and his family, to complete disinterest ...
"It just plays into the belief here that the media is fixated on all things Russia," said Abernathy, whose newspaper was one of only six in the United States to have endorsed Trump for president during the election campaign ...
Trump won Highland County with more than 76 percent of the vote, 12 points more than the 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won, part of a surge in votes for Trump in many Midwestern rural counties that was a significant factor in his victory ...
In the Bob Evans diner in Jackson, three workers from Walmart ... Asked about the Russia investigation .. stared back blankly. "I have never heard anything about it," said Chastity Banks. Neither had her two colleagues.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-ohio-idUSKBN19X2TN
YCHDT
(962 posts)BootinUp
(47,165 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)I have learned first hand - there is absolutely no energy, knowledge, proof, that will make a difference. We just have to write them off. And, I include some of my in-laws in this group.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)CincyDem
(6,363 posts)And Fox News is the ideological vitamin mix that gives them all that energy.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)It has to be a conscious choice.
The information is available. You'd have to decide not to look for it.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Orrex
(63,216 posts)Proud of their idiot racist fuckheadedness.
HAB911
(8,904 posts)otherwise it doesn't exist