Presidential election, 2016

[Eric the Green]

(11-23-2016, 02:08 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(11-22-2016, 03:50 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(11-16-2016, 07:32 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Trickle-in electionomics:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...rue#gid=19

Hillary leads Trump by about 1,200,000 and still counting.

Now her lead is over 1,700,000, and projected by google to be 2,400,000

Who cares, she already lost the most important election during my adult life.

Donald J Trump is the president-elect. Your guns are safe, and money still rules the life of politicians in office.

However, Trump did not get a mandate. And no-one can say that Hillary Rodham Clinton lost the election when she got 2 and half million more votes than Trump.

The Republican hold on the Bible Belt and (for now) the Rust Belt gives them the power, in congress, the statehouses, and potentially the electoral vote (but not the popular vote). Unless younger generations can shake off the fundamentalist memes (both religious and economic-free market fundamentalism), and unless the Rust Belt states return to the blue fold completely, then I predict a national break-up (or at least a looser confederation) may be the only way to bust through this fundamentalist power bloc, perhaps even if only temporarily for a few years so that the constitution can (possibly) be redone to get rid of the advantage which red states have in the electoral college and the Senate, as the price of reunifying the country.

Right now, some younger people are escaping the Bible/Rust Belt by moving to California and other blue states, while some conservative whites have moved out due to the increasing diversity and cost of living there. But this has concentrated the vote of up-to-date and/or diverse people in the states with fewer electoral votes.

More of CA is in, and the margin has now passed 2 million. The percentages in CA are widening too.