On Friday, 28 October 2016 5:32:02 AM AEDT Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Wilson, Heath, and Callaghan[1], the UK has remained racially, ethnically, linguistically, religiously homogeneous just about everywhere outside Greater London
With the significant exception of farm workers. Following the Brexit vote agricultural companies have speculated about moving some of their business to Europe. Apparently if they have to pay the sorts of wages needed to get people born in the UK to do farm work then they can't sell the produce at current prices. What actually happens depends on currency changes and many other factors.
If you look at the Trump-core demographic, it's Fox News viewers, which is to say aging, white, male, rural or suburban, mostly uneducated, and angry at their loss of privilege over the decades. They are certainly noisy, but they are nowhere near a majority, practically anywhere.[2]
It's not just the core demographic. Trump has lots of fans outside his core demographic. There are more than a few young well-educated Australians who are fans of Trump.
Speaking of that, the Trump organisation's tactics going into these last couple of weeks have been impressively logical: They've been putting out targeted campaigns, often 'dark pages' (non-public ones) on Facebook attempting to heighten points of conflict particular classes of Democratic Party voters have with Secretary Clinton -- a somewhat novel kind of voter suppression tactic, i.e., an attempt to motivate the opponent's natural supporters into staying home on Election Day.
It's funny, the reports I've read concern Trump surrogates struggling to explain his position (which changes constantly), a general lack of focus on the election (taking time off to open a new hotel), and poor fundraising strategy (failing to support the Republican party). Most of that isn't the organisation's fault as they can't control Trump. But the reports suggest that it's not possible for them to persue good tactics. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/