November 17, 20169 yr I figured you were going with the tired cliched profile. It's like saying the core R voter is only out for the rich and doesn't like people of color. Lazy. Yes, I left out lazy. Thanks for the reminder. All you have to do is pay attention to how candidates like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton run their campaigns to know what kind of people the Democrats consider their base. They are a pro-abortion party that touts class warfare and promises free stuff. That was the overriding message of both the Bernie and Hillary campaigns.
November 18, 20169 yr IMO, this election wasn't about Democrats that crossed over as some say. It was about Democrats staying home. Both candidates received less votes I believe than the winner and loser in the last two elections did. Democratic message was all about trying to disqualify Trump in the eyes of voters through fear (see all of the stories of people saying they are scared or afraid) of a Trump presidency. Trump called Clinton a criminal, but also spent a lot of time on other issues. There were some democrats that crossed over absolutely but that didn't determine the outcome. Neither drove significant turnout numbers, it was the lack of turnout by uninspired democrats that determined this election. I agree 100%. It's the same thing that happened in the KY gubernatorial election. And Democrats have no one to blame but themselves. On the otherhand, if the next 4 years are a cluster, maybe voters of all parties will get to the polls next time. I susprct that if the next 4 years are awesome, though, voters of both parties will continue to stay home.
November 18, 20169 yr Hate Didn’t Elect Donald Trump; People Did | Tori's Thought Bubble This was a good read.
November 18, 20169 yr Author Hate Didn’t Elect Donald Trump; People Did | Tori's Thought Bubble This was a good read. Much truth here.
November 18, 20169 yr Hate Didn’t Elect Donald Trump; People Did | Tori's Thought Bubble This was a good read. Indeed. If your goal is for your party to "win" then you'd better come up with an actual strategy vs yelling "racism." Trump said "I am with you" even though IMO I'm not sure how he can change their plight. HRC ignored them and , as I've repeatedly said, her general lack of likability made it easy to listen to the guy who showed up. He played on hope and IMO many different fears and went the populist route. It was a great strategy for this election.
November 18, 20169 yr Hate Didn’t Elect Donald Trump; People Did | Tori's Thought Bubble This was a good read. Jon Stewart agrees. Access Denied
November 18, 20169 yr Jon Stewart agrees. Access Denied Good stuff from Jon Stewart...the irony is that Urban blacks and rural America whites are battling a lot of the same community issues...and both could benefit from a government that separates its self from corporate America...unfortunately I am not sure that can happen...I hope Trump does something, and IMO we know Hillary would have done nothing... My conservative gene thinks that we have to get these people working and making an honest living...which therefore brings a sense of pride back to the communities...
November 22, 20169 yr IMO, this election wasn't about Democrats that crossed over as some say. It was about Democrats staying home. Both candidates received less votes I believe than the winner and loser in the last two elections did. Democratic message was all about trying to disqualify Trump in the eyes of voters through fear (see all of the stories of people saying they are scared or afraid) of a Trump presidency. Trump called Clinton a criminal, but also spent a lot of time on other issues. There were some democrats that crossed over absolutely but that didn't determine the outcome. Neither drove significant turnout numbers, it was the lack of turnout by uninspired democrats that determined this election. HRC is now approaching 65M votes. President Obama had about the same in 2012.
November 22, 20169 yr HRC is now approaching 65M votes. President Obama had about the same in 2012. That's impressive and shocking that she lost so handily. Looking at the estimated votes, it looks like the turnout is actually going to be larger this year than the last two elections. Only Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Utah and Wisconsin with lower turnout than 4 years ago. This election isn't as simple as some, including myself thought at first review of it. Not only did some D's switch their vote from 4 years ago and turnout in some bigger cities was down...it also looks like a lot of people that weren't energized to vote for Romney came out this time as well on the R side of things. I would have to drill down into county by county results in some of the states to see if it was some D's switching, staying home or more R's coming out that actually drove results in some of the swing states that flipped. I'll try to pull that data together sometime this week and see what it actually shows happened. We all know some counties flipped, but did they flip because the R vote was up or because the D vote was down in those counties. I think a few that I have looked at actually show that HRC got similar votes to the past elections, but more R's came out to vote than in the past and Trump was able to pass her in some of those counties.
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