CNN Smerconish February 26, 2022 14:22:00
Relationship between casualties on the battlefield and a result at the ballot box in those communities most affected? >> yes. absolutely. so if you're from a part of a country that had a lot of your sons, relatives, friends, neighbors, children fighting and dieing in the war you tended to vote more against the war in 2006. or more against republicans most affiliated with the iraq war and punish them for the policies. it doesn't mean that those communities were rabidly anti-war, but just more in the country than others controlling other factors. the flip side in 2016, we saw then candidate trum...