March 16, 2014.
"Choosing American Workers Over Amnesty" by Daniel Greenfield.
JFK won Macomb County, Michigan in 1960 by 75 percent. In 1980, Reagan won it by 66 percent. This heart of ‘Reagan Democrat’ country was closely split by Gore and Bush and Bush and Kerry… until Obama won it 53 to 45 in 2008 and by 51 to 47 in 2012.
The Republican Party doesn’t need to worry about the Latino vote nearly as much as it should be worrying about its inability to connect with white working class Americans. The pro-amnesty GOP establishment’s electoral vision of a party of corporations and minority voters already exists.
It’s called the Democratic Party.
The Republican Party’s fate in 2016 will be decided in places like Macomb County. It will be decided by white men and women earning $20,000 to $50,000 a year. It will be decided by working families struggling to get by and searching for answers from a government that keeps betraying them.
And here we are, friends.
Clinton had bet heavily on winning in the industrial Midwest because of her traditional strength among Democrats. But the turnout in Wayne County and especially Detroit appeared down. And while Clinton won handily in Oakland County -- 51%-43% with all precincts reporting -- she lost badly in working-class Macomb County, where Trump threw a big rally last Sunday -- by double digits.
The future of America really was decided in Macomb County.