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TexasTowelie

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Fri Aug 4, 2017, 06:16 PM Aug 2017

These voters in Arizona are fed up with Democrats, Republicans and, most of all, Trump

In Arizona, where the great recession cut a deep swath through home prices and shook all facets of the economy, voters are now increasingly buoyant about the fiscal future they envision for themselves and the nation.

They’re saving their ire for politics and politicians.

More than two dozen voters gathered in Phoenix this week delivered a bipartisan broadside against President Trump, Republicans and Democrats, dismissing the political class as serving its wealthy benefactors and abandoning everyday Americans.

Their fiercest disappointment was aimed at Trump.

Arizona has been something of a desert mirage for Democrats in recent years; Hillary Clinton made a late stab at the state before November’s presidential election, but Trump won easily.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-voters-trump-20170804-story.html

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These voters in Arizona are fed up with Democrats, Republicans and, most of all, Trump (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
You Get Who/What You Vote For Me. Aug 2017 #1

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1. You Get Who/What You Vote For
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 06:38 PM
Aug 2017

“I loved him because he was different. I thought that he was really going to do a lot of change, good changes,” said one Republican woman. “I hated Obama, so I was ready for a change.”

'Yet in the process, participants voiced strikingly little support for Democrats nor any enthusiasm about using their vote to cast out Republicans next year."

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