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Guy Whitey Corngood

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Thu Sep 22, 2016, 05:05 PM Sep 2016

Deplorable? Trump more so than Clinton, AP-GfK poll finds (Duh!!)

When Hillary Clinton said that half of Donald Trump's supporters belonged in a "basket of deplorables," Republicans thought they just might have found her campaign-crushing-blunder.

The gaffe, they hoped, was a way to cement an image as an out-of-touch snob, just as Democrats did four years ago to Mitt Romney after he said "47 percent" of voters backed President Barack Obama because they were "dependent on government."

But a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that Clinton's stumble didn't have quite the impact that Trump and his supporters wanted. Instead, it's Trump who's viewed as most disconnected and disrespectful.

Sixty percent of registered voters say he does not respect "ordinary Americans," according to the poll. That's far more than the 48 percent who say the same about Clinton.

http://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article103507052.html

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Deplorable? Trump more so than Clinton, AP-GfK poll finds (Duh!!) (Original Post) Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2016 OP
One thing about what she said it is true. I saw a guy yesterday with a doc03 Sep 2016 #1

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1. One thing about what she said it is true. I saw a guy yesterday with a
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 05:42 PM
Sep 2016

t-shirt already saying "I am deplorable and proud of it"

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