>>A friend runs a picture framing shop here in Hamilton. She was swamped with orders from black families for framed pictures of Obama.

If Trump voters did that, people would call it evidence of the White trash racism that swept Trump into power. But it's a silly argument: surely the same white trash racists/sexists who purportedly gave it to Trump, should have come out in droves to vote against Obama because of his skin color. Except that they didn't. They may have mobilized to support Trump- but they didn't mobilize to oppose Obama. Seems to me that this whole argument smears an awful lot of Flyover folk who may be afraid to admit their intentions to hostile pollsters- for obvious reasons- but know how to exercise a vote.

FWIW: when HRC and Obama were competing in the Presidential primary, a very clever man in Flyover country told me that people may be biased against Obama for being black, but they're more biased against HRC for being a woman.

And so it came to pass.

These are not caricature white trash Trump voters described here: these are *Democrats* we're talking about, participating in a Democrat Primary.

So if people insist on blaming the electorate: maybe Obama voters stayed home because the candidate was a woman. Perhaps HRC is correct that misogyny contributed to her loss- except that she ought to be poking the bone at her own, and making sure she has the correct explanation for people who came out for Obama but stated home for her. Was it Democrat racism, misogyny- or both- that cost her the election?

I don't actually believe this construction- surely her gender was far less of an issue than the smell of dirty tricks, cheating, contrivance and disrespect for voters that dismayed so many- but it's a logical extension of insisting that Obama voters came out in droves for him, but stayed home for her.