{"id":29912,"date":"2020-07-31T11:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29912"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:34:06","slug":"that-silent-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/31\/that-silent-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"That Silent Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&#8217;s favorite campaign miracle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president has repeatedly touted a \u201csilent majority\u201d of Americans he expects to show up en mass on Election Day to shock\u00a0<a title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-faces-rising-disapproval-and-widespread-distrust-on-coronavirus-post-abc-poll-finds\/2020\/07\/16\/04aa9db2-c79d-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\">pollsters<\/a>\u00a0and help him repeat his surprising 2016 victory. His campaign has developed lengthy slide shows aimed at disproving public polls and predicting a swell of unexpected support that will propel Trump past Democratic rival\u00a0<a class=\"contextual_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/candidates\/joe-biden\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden<\/a> in November.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-polls-hidden-voter-silent-majority\/2020\/07\/29\/07fa0760-d1d3-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/visualizations\/time-series\/demo\/voting-historical-time-series.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real deciders<\/a> lie:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Census.gov_.presidential-voting-rates.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29913\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Census.gov_.presidential-voting-rates.jpg?resize=800%2C581&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Census.gov_.presidential-voting-rates.jpg?w=950&amp;ssl=1 950w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Census.gov_.presidential-voting-rates.jpg?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Census.gov_.presidential-voting-rates.jpg?resize=768%2C558&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Census.gov_.presidential-voting-rates.jpg?resize=207%2C150&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Census.gov_.presidential-voting-rates.jpg?resize=150%2C109&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That roughly 40% that didn&#8217;t vote in 2016, those are the potential deciders. If they come out in significant numbers, and are as appalled by Trump&#8217;s America as are those who are being polled, the right wing &#8220;hidden voters&#8221; won&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&#8217;s favorite campaign miracle: The president has repeatedly touted a \u201csilent majority\u201d of Americans he expects to show up en mass on Election Day to shock\u00a0pollsters\u00a0and help him repeat his surprising 2016 victory. His campaign has developed lengthy slide shows aimed at disproving public polls and predicting a swell \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/31\/that-silent-majority\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29914,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29912\/revisions\/29914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}