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Sadly, at least for Trump, i think it came down to 1 party loyalty 2 identity politics 3 active voter suppression in key states 4 The Electoral College, whi
by clumsysmurf 10y ago
Sadly, at least for Trump, i think it came down to
1 party loyalty
2 identity politics
3 active voter suppression in key states
4 The Electoral College, which was designed to prevent this exact thing (demagoguery)
#1 & #2 are discussed in
"Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691169446 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691169446
#2 also discussed in
"The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Chicago Studies in American Politics)" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022634911X https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022634911X
#3 and other dirty tricks discussed in "Ratfked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy" https://www.amazon.com/Ratf-ked-Behind-Americas-Democracy/dp/1631491628 https://www.amazon.com/Ratf-ked-Behind-Americas-Democracy/dp...
and
"The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/110190576X https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/110190576X
- TTPrograms 10y agoYeah, it probably didn't have much to do with the economically left-behind working class that constitutes the majority of the country and wasn't appealed to at all by the Democratic campaign.
- clumsysmurf 10y agoLets remember, at this point Hillary is 1.7 million popular votes ahead of Trump.
- TTPrograms 10y agoI don't think these are contradictory statements.
- tedunangst 10y agoNone of those votes do anything to change the result in Pennsylvania, which until recently was part of a "Blue Firewall" that made a Trump victory impossible.
- EpicEng 10y agoIf we didn't have an electoral college the numbers would be very different. Who would, obviously I don't now, but people understand the concept of the electoral college and candidates campaign accordingly.
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