President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

At the local level? Yes. Democrats get pummeled locally. This nation is as red as it's ever been locally.

To win on the ground, Democrats will have to adjust and compromise on social dogma. It's my belief that many don't want to; that to do so would make them feel less cool, less enlightened, less "right" than before. So they'll be self-righteous losers hoping that once baby boomers die off, the bitter, on-the-nose, boring-as-a-dog's-ass way progressives conduct themselves will be popular enough to win locally.

I kind of doubt it.

 

Voting against your own self interests is a favorite American pastime. Vote for a woman? Derp. No way

 

Or did a technically advanced foreign entity gain access to local voter rolls and wipe the votes of registered Democrats in key precincts?

 

Amazing how Fucko flipped a very small but very consistent number of votes in the final hours to get just exactly the EV swing he needed.
Almost like somebody sat down on a computer somewhere and designed a simulation program to describe the vote shifts he needed, and then flipped a switch to make it happen.

Yep, that's what it seems like.

Oh, let's also remember Fucko was not steaming to the finish line on a big surge of momentum; to the contrary, he was stumbling to the finish. Many projections showed him heading for a resounding, nearly historic, beating.


The only "midnight surprise" was Comey's statement in the final days that he found no evidence for a criminal case against HRC. That certainly shouldn't havre produced a last second stampede for Fucko.

So in other words, the whole election flipped, in the final couple of hours, against all predictions, against all reason, by just precisely the margin to throw the WH to Fucko. Almost like someone scripted it for a teevee show.

 

True. Clinton won't be running in 2020 though.

 

I'll never believe Trump won legitimately.

 

Yeah. We'll see.

 

Alma, get off this hobby horse. The Democrats will not, cannot and should not abandon equal rights for all Americans as a cause no matter how much white people resent it. You cannot abandon your base in an attempt to appeal to the other party's base. Just doesn't work. Democrats do compromise all across the land in local races. Their candidates in Wyoming and Missouri are not the same as their candidates here in Massachusetts or in LA. I will point out that the most allegedly niche concern of the party, transgender rights, got a Democrat elected Governor in North Carolina, hardly Berkeley in its overall political orientation.

 

Oh, I dunno if "ashamed" is the right word.

They didn't want to be shamed and mocked.

Which they would have been.

Which they are.

 

Democrats win when they turn out the base. Chasing the nearly mythical middle doesn't help them.

 

and which they deserve to be

 

Trump's 45.6 percent was perfectly in line with the polls leading into the final days of the election.

The polls were not particularly wrong. The assumptions made around them were wrong. "If Clinton is up nationally, we can ignore traditional blue leaners in the upper Midwest (outside of some small state polls) and focus on places like Florida."