(12-02-2016, 01:52 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(12-02-2016, 07:35 AM)Odin Wrote:(12-01-2016, 07:01 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:Quote: Eric the Green] Wow, the margin is approaching 2%, has passed 2.5 million, and California has surpassed Hawaii in the % of the vote for Hillary.
It's December 1, do you know where your horses are? Hint, said horse left the barn on Nov, 9.
Warren Dew Wrote:Give it a year and Clinton will have 100% of the 100 million votes from California.
California has a tad of only a bit above 37,000,000 folks. Some of that is of course too young to vote. If you're counting the resident zombies, then yes, the 100 million votes would work.
the Dems need to realize that they need to quit pandering to the concerns of Left Coast folks like Eric (like gun control) because right now pandering to the Rust Belt is the far more important concern due to the Electoral College. As X_MOX mentioned elsewhere, the Dems lost because of essentially 100,000 voters in the Rust Belt, those 2.5 million people in California essentially don't matter.
Very good point, and another good argument for the electoral college. Looks like you can win the popular vote by pandering to your base, which tends to result in extreme government. Having to pay attention to the politically neglected Rust Belt as well as their base regions helps ensure that the person who wins is more moderate.
The problem with your reasoning is that Clinton WAS the moderate.
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