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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
People realize 'these morons' include millions of people who voted for Obama twice, right? 44 per cent of voters in 2016 were non-college whites. Those numbers are even higher in the rust belt states (including former Democrat strongholds) that cost Clinton the election: Michigan 54 per cent, Ohio 55, Wisconsin 58, Iowa 62.
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Your numbers are really misleading. Trump won on 77,000 votes across three states. This can all be attributed to Clinton not campaigning in these particular states more so than anything Trump did. Clinton was a bad candidate who ran a very poor campaign, and she deserved to lose. But Trump did not win this election with some majority, nor did he gain any sort of mandate. This is a candidate who lost the popular vote by 4M votes.
[/QUOTE]The Democrats can't afford to write off that many voters. If Clinton had done as well with non-college whites as Obama, she would have won. It she'd matched Obama's historic highs with African American voters, she still would have lost. [/QUOTE]
Voting turnout was at its
lowest level in two decades, with less than 56% f the population getting out to cast a ballot. Nothing diabolical about this, just people were disenchanted with both candidate and decided to sit things out. Will that same malaise grip the nation again in the future? We're going to find out shortly.
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It's foolish to fall into the trap of assuming that your most dedicated and passionate opponents are representative of everyone on the other side. Traditional and social media, animated by perverse incentives and algorithms, massively magnify the extremes. Most people are not hopelessly partisan or wild-eyed zealots. Most people are persuadable.
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No, most people are not persuadable. This is patently false. Most people are already locked into their pre-programmed political thinking long before basic discussion begins. It's the way our brains are wired, especially when it comes to elections. The only you hope you have to influence election numbers is to dissuade voters from becoming engaged. Those who can activate their base, while depressing the numbers of those on the other side, stand the greatest chance of winning. This is American political campaigning 101. This is how elections are won and lost, and exactly what happened to Democrats. Trump activated his base, and managed to depress the Democratic base. Voter turnout was at a 20 year low. That won the election for Trump, not the millions of people who are insulted by being called uneducated or stupid.
BTW, you're right. Conservatives complain that they shouldn't be called uneducated or stupid. They prefer to be called fools.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/18/...heyre-foolish/
But my point still stands. They were uneducated and stupid in what they believed and how they cast their vote.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/10...ican-democrat/