Describe an Obama 2008, Obama 2012, Trump 2016 voter

[The Mikado]

There have to be literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of these, given all the counties Obama carried twice that went for Trump.

[LLR]

-recently unemployed working-class white voter
-Hillary Clinton hater
-populist centrist
-conservadem
-Someone who really liked Obama
-Literally 10-15% of Rhode Island, I think

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

My father.

[Intell]

-recently unemployed working-class white voter
-Hillary Clinton hater
-populist centrist
-conservadem
-Someone who really liked Obama
-Literally 10-15% of Rhode Island, I think

More depressing was whole of WV, and most of KY. Elliot County, KY.

[James Monroe]

A misogynist.

[Kleine Scheiße]

Working class whites that would have preferred Jim Webb or Bernie Sanders.

Populists.

Platonist leftists.

EDIT JULY 19 2019: I am all three of these things. I did not vote for Trump.

[Sumner 1868]

Quite a few loggers and forestry workers judging by county results in my state and Oregon.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Quite a few loggers and forestry workers judging by county results in my state and Oregon.

Interesting, when I went to Washington a few years ago I talked to a local who said that people in the area working in the logging industry were losing their jobs.

[White Trash]

Ironically, I could see someone who voted for Clinton in the '08 primary doing this.

[Bismarck]

A midwestern white person who makes less than 100,000 a year but more than 40,000 a year.

[Ban my account ffs!]

A great many people from rural Minnesota.

They think the identity politics+neoliberal combo was a toxic one.  Combined with a candidate who was seen as toxic after 30 years of being a household name and often not in a positive way... they flipped.

Can we get them back?  yes.  Should we?  Absolutely.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

The opposite of me, lol.

I wonder what it feels like to have one's preferred candidate win a presidential election...

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Evidently someone from Elliott County, KY.

The opposite of me, lol.

I wonder what it feels like to have one's preferred candidate win a presidential election...

IIRC you'd be a Romney 2012/Hillary 2016 voter.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Checking in! (obviously too young in '08 to vote, but I would've loved him if I was a couple years older). Fairly certain a majority of the Trump voters on Atlas forum fit this criteria (which should've been a major signal!)


We will never stop winning (and winning big league)!

[RINO Tom]

The opposite of me, lol.

I wonder what it feels like to have one's preferred candidate win a presidential election...

Can't say I know myself ... I do vaguely remember 2000 and 2004, but I was obviously too young to vote and really just followed my parents.

[bagelman]

Someone from rural Wisconsin

[SingingAnalyst]

A typical swing voter of any age, any race, any ethnicity (though probably Christian), any education level shy of a Ph.D., any income level, who simply felt we needed a change after 8 years of Dem rule. Probably not much different from a Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon voter or a Clinton-Clinton-Bush voter.