Last week, the Washington Post posited the assertion that A Democratic party that can't win rural districts... can't win national elections. They happen to be incorrect on two counts, one that Democrats can't win rural districts and the other that they can't win national elections.
There's no way to know what Jill Stein's voters would have done had they not voted for her. Maybe they wouldn't have come to the polls at all. Maybe they would have written in Bernie or voted for Trump. Or maybe they would have voted for Hillary. In Wisconsin, if all 30,980 voters who cast ballots for Stein would have cast them for Clinton, Clinton's total would be not 1,382,210 but 1,413,190. Trump's total is 1,409,467. Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes would have gone to Clinton. In Michigan 50,700 votes went to Stein.
Cops with attitude in Donald Trump's world (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusA reasonably short piece, but one that poses a key set of questions for our "next six months" watch over the revival or demise of the Democratic Party.
A week ago today, Wisconsin, very uncharacteristically from an historical perspective, exhibited a big fall-off in voters participation. In 2012, 3,068,434 people voted. This year it was just 2,944,620, fully 4% fewer. Trump is just over 25,000 votes ahead (with a whopping 152,943 3rd party votes (6.9%). In 2012, Obama won the state comfortably with a 6.9% margin.
Last Tuesday, Life's Losers got their revenge: with the help of Putin and the FBI they saddled America with a vengeful narcissist with a tiny attention span who has surrounded himself with fascists. They sent their message, that the two establishment parties have left them and their families for roadkill.
Is TPP "just stunned" too. Not likely.by Gaius PubliusPerhaps you've been reading about the demise of TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership "trade" agreement. I put trade in quotes because that's what it's called, but that's not what it is.
Was the 2016 Democratic Primary the pivot on which the next half-century turned?by Gaius PubliusI won't do this too often, but I will do it from time to time, because the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party continues to this day. I want to remind us all of what might have been, and why it's not.
I would love to have been a fly on the wall when Donald Trump visited his future home, the White House, to meet Barak Obama on Thursday. I mean, there’s a conversation it would’ve been fascinating to hear: a conversation between the first Black President of America and his soon-to-be successor – a man endorsed […]
"How the fuck did she lose to this clown?-David Keith, Democratic operative
