One of the few coastal elites to have cracked the Trump discursive code is the otherwise odious Peter Thiel, who told the National Press Club, “the media is always taking Trump literally. After his win in the Nevada Caucus Trump said: “We won with highly-educated, we won with poorly educated. Nate Cohn of the NYT described the geography: “The Wyoming River Valley of Pennsylvania — which includes Scranton and Wilkes-Barre — voted for Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump swept the string of traditionally Democratic and old industrial towns along Lake Erie. Counties that supported Mr. Obama in 2012 voted for Mr. Trump by 20 points.”Obama won Iowa in 2012 Trump won it this time.

Source: Huffington Post November 21, 2016 23:08 UTC