An elaborate new study attempts to decipher the motivations
driving Trump voters:
“Yet a major new
analysis from Gallup, based on 87,000 interviews the polling company conducted
over the past year, suggests this narrative is not complete. While there does
seem to be a relationship between economic anxiety and Trump's appeal, the
straightforward connection that many observers have assumed does not appear in
the data.
According to this
new analysis, those who view Trump favorably have not been disproportionately
affected by foreign trade or immigration, compared with people with unfavorable
views of the Republican presidential nominee. The results suggest that his
supporters, on average, do not have lower incomes than other Americans, nor are
they more likely to be unemployed.”