We've elected a mean jerk to be President. This will be interesting. Can he work with the do-nothing majority in Congress and the do-nothing majority in the Senate to actually do something? Typically, a President gets two years and then if the public doesn't like what they see, things swing the other way.
The poor behavior of the red party is likely to cause a backlash the next two years too. I'm sure they will call the blue party tactics deplorable when they do the same thing to them the Republicans have been doing for several years. Gumming up Congress, etc.
Here's the good news - this country is ready to elect a woman. Clinton will likely end up winning the popular vote, or at least let's call it a tie.
Clinton didn't lose because she was a woman. If she lost because she's a woman it is because Democrats wouldn't vote for a woman. That's probably not the case. Democrats didn't go for her for other reasons. Many, many reasons.
The final numbers are stark. It is interesting to compare them to 2012 but even more interesting to compare them to 2008. The Republican got about the same number of votes that McCain got in 2008 and that Romney got in 2012. But Romney and McCain lost in landslides.
Clinton on the other hand got ten million TEN MILLION! fewer votes that Obama in his first campaign. We also have to figure in 8 years of the democratic demographic base growing. So, it is even worse than that.
What about vote trickery in red states? That's awful but that is not where this election was lost. Red states (where the trickery is) stayed red. Clinton lost key states where there haven't been voter suppression movements.
Democrats didn't come out to vote for her, that's all there is to it. That's a warning to both parties, I think. The Democrats need to find an outsider that fires up the base and if they do, they will win national elections for years to come. Republicans needs to understand that this win is a fluke. The base doesn't constitute a winning majority and it isn't growing.
Lot of data at this fine site. Previous years linked at bottom.
The poor behavior of the red party is likely to cause a backlash the next two years too. I'm sure they will call the blue party tactics deplorable when they do the same thing to them the Republicans have been doing for several years. Gumming up Congress, etc.
Here's the good news - this country is ready to elect a woman. Clinton will likely end up winning the popular vote, or at least let's call it a tie.
Clinton didn't lose because she was a woman. If she lost because she's a woman it is because Democrats wouldn't vote for a woman. That's probably not the case. Democrats didn't go for her for other reasons. Many, many reasons.
The final numbers are stark. It is interesting to compare them to 2012 but even more interesting to compare them to 2008. The Republican got about the same number of votes that McCain got in 2008 and that Romney got in 2012. But Romney and McCain lost in landslides.
Clinton on the other hand got ten million TEN MILLION! fewer votes that Obama in his first campaign. We also have to figure in 8 years of the democratic demographic base growing. So, it is even worse than that.
What about vote trickery in red states? That's awful but that is not where this election was lost. Red states (where the trickery is) stayed red. Clinton lost key states where there haven't been voter suppression movements.
Democrats didn't come out to vote for her, that's all there is to it. That's a warning to both parties, I think. The Democrats need to find an outsider that fires up the base and if they do, they will win national elections for years to come. Republicans needs to understand that this win is a fluke. The base doesn't constitute a winning majority and it isn't growing.
Lot of data at this fine site. Previous years linked at bottom.
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