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As of this writing, Trump has drawn fewer votes than McCain in 2008 and substantially less than Romney in 2012. He even has less than Hillary. So I'm not sure I
by dr_ 10y ago
As of this writing, Trump has drawn fewer votes than McCain in 2008 and substantially less than Romney in 2012. He even has less than Hillary. So I'm not sure I agree with this analysis about rural voters - at least not with respect to it being anything unique to this particular election.
What seems more likely is that there was an enthusiasm gap for Hillary Clinton as a candidate. It's about the electoral college in the end, and a Democrat like Hillary, who lacks the charisma of Obama, was going to have to bring out minorities, young voters, and college educated voters in droves to win. She simply was not able to sufficiently do this.
To win the rural vote back, the Democrats need a different kind of candidate, none of the ones that they have offered have been able to do this since 2000.
- dwiel 10y agoBernie Sanders did this but the encumbant democrats were able to stop him. The encumbant rebuplicans werent able to stop trump so he won. The people in these swing states voted for bernie in the primaries (in places where independants were allowed to participate). The DNC are to blame for being out of touch with the general population and forcing an unpopular candidate down our throats. Its no wonder nobody came out to vote for her.
- nojvek 10y agoThis 100%. It would have been a different show if it was bernie vs trump. In a way, it's the Democrats way of saying "to hell with DNC and corrupt super delegates". The problem with Hillary is that she was seen as a messenger of whoever funded her campaign. That included the ultra rich Arabs, multinational corps, etc. She wasn't authentic. On the other hand, trump was rich enough to not give a fuck and say things at the risk of alienating a large crowd. He really appealed at an emotional level. Hillary was a robot.
- infinite8s 10y agoJoe Biden is probably the only one who could have done it.
- curun1r 10y ago> was going to have to bring out minorities, young voters, and college educated voters in droves to win. One interesting thing that this election showed was that race and gender are two fundamentally different traits. In all the talk about diversity, we lump the two together far too often when gender is really a completely different beast. Minorities, and African-Americans specifically, overwhelmingly turned out and voted for Obama. Clinton didn't get nearly the same effect with women despite her opponent being an unabashed misogynist. It seems that race > religion > gender when it comes to voting identity.
- dagw 10y agoDon't forget education. Early analysis seems to indicate that whether a person had a college degree or not was a better indicator than gender for how they would vote.