Mining Equipment staged to go out to the Netherlands, April 2015. Photo by Peter Hirthe. Anyone who read a Monmouth College Poll from back in 2011 might have predicted the unexpected rise of Donald Trump . The poll found Midwestern residents — by huge margins — saw themselves as losers from global trade , just as Trump would insist in his campaign.
Some of the poll’s key findings:
-64 percent felt the Midwest lost more from global trade and just 20 percent felt it gained.
-64 percent said it cost the Midwest jobs; only 19 percent said it created jobs. […]
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