“It’s just sad,” says Dave “Mudcat” Saunders, a Democratic strategist turned Donald Trump supporter who says his party “has abandoned” culturally conservative white men like himself. Trump could also drive up his support among white men only to see Clinton buoyed with better support than Obama had from white Republican women who dislike Trump. In 2012, exit polls showed Republican Mitt Romney won 62 per cent of white men to Obama’s 35 per cent. White men still make up about a third of the typical presidential electorate and will be crucial to Trump’s fortunes in Rust Belt states that have seen a declining middle class. Measured another way, white men made up less than quarter of Obama’s national vote, compared to about 44 per cent of Romney’s total.

Source: National Post July 28, 2016 13:52 UTC