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You can easily see this as marketing. I'm certainly more inclined to use their services now.
by staticassertion 10y ago
You can easily see this as marketing. I'm certainly more inclined to use their services now.
- akuma73 10y agoWhat about the other half of the country?
- lvh 10y agoLyft and services like it seem to be intrinsically tied to urban centers, which also overwhelmingly lean liberal.
- akuma73 10y agoOverwhelmingly liberal is not 99%. It's more like 66-80%. For example,in very liberal San Jose, Trump got 20% of the vote. It's still a large percentage of the potential customers.
- blhack 10y agoEvery Trump supporter I know is embarrassed by the travel ban. So this doesn't quite effect "half of the country".
- koolba 10y ago> Every Trump supporter I know is embarrassed by the travel ban. So this doesn't quite effect "half of the country". I'm going to guess that your anecdata set size is relatively small.
- gotchange 10y agoWell, if other ride-share companies follow suit, Trump supporters will soon have no other choices through which to make a political statement.
- cozzyd 10y agoLyft's biggest markets are places where Trump got less than 20 percent of the vote
- staticassertion 10y agoA little less than half, assuming the popular vote is representative. And considering that the top 3 largest cities were overwhelmingly pro-Hillary it seems very sensible, given that I assume that's who their target consumer is.