03-18-2017, 12:55 PM
(03-14-2017, 03:02 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: ...I have no idea of to what I can compare the 2016 election.
Propably the Civil War/Gilden Age elections from 1860 till 1888 work best. The GOP political dominates by concentrating on one section/group (then: the North; today: the white vote), the Dems are a diverse coaltion of the underprivileged (then: the South, catholic immigrants; today:Afro-Americans, Hispanics). The elections are close and there is often a diveregence between popular vote and Electoral college.