{"id":67606,"date":"2016-08-24T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67606"},"modified":"2016-08-23T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:15:52","slug":"think-trump-is-losing-get-out-of-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67606","title":{"rendered":"Think Trump is losing? Get out of the City\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salena Zito at the New York Post, a friend of TAH, I believe, has taken it upon herself to do what all political journalists should do and that is to get out from behind her desk and get away from the liberal echo box of New York City and go look at the political landscape<\/a> in the rest of America. She drives through rural Pennsylvania and what she finds does not surprise me at all, the support for Trump there is overwhelming:<\/p>\n

If you drive anywhere in Pennsylvania, from the turnpike to the old US routes to the dirt roads connecting small towns like Hooversville with \u201cbigger\u201d small towns like Somerset, you might conclude that Donald Trump is ahead in this state by double digits.<\/p>\n

Large signs, small signs, homemade signs, signs that wrap around barns, signs that go from one end of a fence to another dot the landscape with such frequency that, if you were playing the old-fashioned road-trip game of counting cows, you would hit 100 in just one small town like this one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet if you listen to the liberal media, Trump is several points behind in all their polls in the Keystone State which is one of the key swing states in the coming election. As soon as I read her article I thought of a piece here yesterday that our military is strongly pro-Trump<\/a> and a comment from an old TAH regular, a person in a position to know, that fellow O-4\/O5 officers were more supportive of Hillary. While some of you may see it as a stretch, I see a parallel here between urban elites and these officers when compared to the rural and small town voters Zito visited and our military enlisted. The urban elites and the officer corps tend to be better educated, better paid and more attuned to that favored term of John Kerry, the nuances of politics, while the small town, rural folks are more attuned to the deteriorating conditions within the ranks.<\/p>\n

Some of you officers who read here may find this observation too broad and unfair, an over-simplification of a much more complex issue, which is precisely why I have sent it to Jonn, to stimulate some discussion on the topic. <\/p>\n

Fire for effect\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Salena Zito at the New York Post, a friend of TAH, I believe, has taken it … Think Trump is losing? Get out of the City\u2026<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}