Given how tight the election was advertised by the media, particularly with the last minute Comey letters, it seems a bit more likely that the Democrats and left-leaning independents who didn’t vote (and in particular, African-Americans), just weren’t particularly inspired to do so and didn’t have any love for Hillary, even when faced with a possible Trump presidency.
To win, Democrats are going to have to run someone whose likeability numbers are higher than his/her unlikeability numbers and has an organization that won’t take any state (other than perhaps the traditional big three - California, New York, and Illinois) for granted.
No, they will never win. Now that they have control of the government the Republicans will ramp up their voter suppression to Jim Crow levels or worse. The Democrats will never be allowed to win a major election again, much less the Presidency.
If you think Clinton is a snake, you’re a victim of the misinformation campaign run against her.
She is the most vetted person in history, and what have the found? Her foundation does good works, she had a shitty email server, and she ordered pizzas this one time.
You may not agree with Clinton, but she’s not the villain that she was painted as. She’s a politician. And a good one. And because of the misinformed she lost to an imbecile who now has unlimited power (or will, once the Senate does away with the filibuster).
Doesn’t matter. We could talk UP to these morons and it won’t make any difference. They aren’t listening to anyone but Fox News, Hannity, Limbaugh, Breitbart and anyone that promises to stick it to Liberals.
No matter how you talk to them, they Don’t Know and Don’t Want To Know and WILL NOT be educated.
They will ALWAYS be this way, and the only solution is to outvote them. There is no “winning them over.”
No, they were pandered to by the Democrats, who have consistently tried to win them over and try to avoid offending them even when it has cost them elections. And now it’s lost the Democrats everything.
Yes it is. The butthurt is strong on this board. This board is populated by the smartest people on the planet so if you have a differing opinion then obviously you are Evil Super Satan Hitler.
Yeah, that’s not going happen. Evidence Der Trihs and all the other whiny butthurt crybabies.
So having a different opinion than you is trolling now? Butthurt much crybaby?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Never stop being butthurt you sad pathetic little thing.
Oh, knock it off. If GWB/Cheney didn’t invoke mass disenfranchisement of those who oppose them, D’Rump & Penis have no chance of doing it. The GOP is still in greater disarray than it’s ever been at any time, don’t let the braggarts fool you.
The major reason the Dems lost was because we felt we could coast this election. That’s not gonna happen next time, we’ll be out in force. Expect a major reversal in the congressional races of 2018, I predict the Dems will take back at least one branch of Congress and possibly both. And we’ll have a Democratic president again by 2020 (as long as we don’t nominate some wimpy, zero-charisma moron like Kerry, Dukakis or Mondale…)
The Senate map for Dems doesn’t look good for 2018. (This is the class that came in with Obama’s re-election.) The House is a distinct possibility, even despite gerrymandering, as the GOP has sliced the margin pretty thin in some places.
Bush and Cheney put in a lot of the groundwork, such as driving out non-rightwing partisans from the government & replacing them with rightwingers; and the Republican Congress pretty much managed to keep Obama from repairing any of the damage they did.
And they’ll show up to find that their voter registration has been “lost”, or if they aren’t white that the polling places are guarded with hostile cops with orders to detain or assault anyone “suspicious”, as in anyone not white. Or outright guarded by the KKK or similar groups.
Why? It’s just an extension of what they were already doing or have done in the past. There’s no reason to assume that they’ll suddenly develop scruples now that nobody can stop them from doing as they please.
So what should we do with people who are so badly uninformed that they would vote for Donald Trump? How should we respond to this kind of divorce with reality?
And why should Trump voters demand to be treated with respect when said voters, through their votes, show absolutely none to the people who are criticizing them in the first place, usually because of demographics?
Yeah, it’ll just be like after 2000 and 9/11, when America became a one-party state and Democrats never controlled any branch of government ever again.