I posted yesterday about political yardsigns in the city (the city proper). I’m curious, among other things, how Trump (a non-traditional GOP) candidate will fare here in November. Democrats have a traditional ideological nominee in Hillary Clinton, but Trump is markedly different from other Republicans before him, and from other Republican challengers this year.
(Disclosure: I’m a libertarian third-party voter supporting Johnson-Weld 2016.)
The only results available to us now are from the 4.5.16 presidential primary (using, below, election night results).
They’re telling: among GOP voters in the city, 469 voted Trump, and 1,370 voted non-Trump. (The Walworth County part of the city went 374 Trump, 1092 non-Trump; the Jefferson County part went 95 Trump, 278 non-Trump. Most of the non-Trump votes went to either Cruz or Kasich.)
Obviously many non-Trump GOP voters in town will vote Trump in the fall. How many is unclear.
For now, it’s telling to see that Whitewater in April was not Trump country within the GOP, as other areas (and notably parts of northern Wisconsin) were.
These are fascinating stats. Would not have estimated it this way. So this is a primary version of the Romney-Trump question like asking how typical the GOP in Whitewater is. This may not tell a lot about candidate philosophy as voters outlooks.
Exactly.
Sorry that I’m late to comment. Not at all surprised by Whitewater Presidential primary results. I do believe most Whitewater Conservatives/Republicans will reluctantly come around to Trump due to their unbounded loyalty to the Republican Party, and their hate and disdain of Hillary, Bill, Joe, Barack et. al. As a liberal Democrat that’s been a Hillary supporter before Day One (told my Bernie friends: sorry Mc Govern ’16 ain’t gonna happen) I will say: Donald Trump is a seriously mentally ill and damaged man. I am hoping medical experts will begin to discuss this. His tirades against detractors at the DNC were expected.
Have not heard a comment from Reince, Ryan, Sennsbrenner in light of these shocking comments/Tweets. And that is very disturbing. This man is off the rails.
His appeal to voters is 1960ish: Silent Majority, Law and Order, kill ISIS , destroy all perceived enemies, and their families; torture people, waterboard. Scary, creepy. The thing that bothers me the most: is our revered veterans marching in Trump lock step to the dictators and evil that they fought in World Wars, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Tomorrow, Sunday morning, I can tell you what you will see on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, This Week on ABC, CNN, Fox, etc. : Trump going nuts and denying his comments. Help. Demagogue, sociopath, megalamaniac, nut job.
We deserve better than this. Help. SOS AMERICA….
I agree with your assessment – most Republicans in town will back Trump. How public they’ll be, well, we don’t yet know.
There’s a development angle in this: I believe that a community that goes big for Trump will be demographically different – to its disadvantage – from more upscale conservative or liberal communities. Even apart from ideological opposition to Trump (I’m both libertarian and #NeverTrump), I’m convinced that Trumpism is a developmental dead end.