(February 13, 2017 at 6:20 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(February 11, 2017 at 12:03 am)TaraJo Wrote: The basic rule to politics is this: whenever the people like things the way they are or they just don't want change, they vote for the party that's already in power. When they want change, they vote for the other guy. Clinton lost certain key states because people in the rust belt wanted change.
Your hypothesis founders on the rock that is the fact that Trump got the exact same vote as Mittens and McCain before him. He idin't bring new voters into the party, he didn't change the deomgraphics of the party, he did nothing to change the Republitraitor base.
Trump "won" because the Republitraitors' "supress the vote" operation was more effective than the Democrats' "get out the vote operation". While GotV was probably worth 2 to 3 million votes, Crosscheck, illegal voter ID laws, and plain simple not counting votes in Democrat precents was worth 10 million votes and more.
Somewhat true. I mean, I remember the first time I went to vote was on voting day in 1998. It took me like 15 minutes and I was in and out. First time I voted in a presidential election was a little longer, but it was still a quick event. Even as late as 2008, voting was quick and easy even when I voted on voting day. They my life went chaotic for a while after that. I remember voting in 2012 and it took, what, maybe an hour; and this was early voting. Well, that was Houston, but now that I moved back to Oklahoma, I figure voting won't take quite so long, right? Wrong. The line to vote went outside the library, around the parking lot and down the street. The wait was three hours. And I was left to wonder, how many people have lives and schedules that are just too full to wait in line for three hours? The only reason I had time is because I have a car and I had the day off work; change either of those and I'm one of those non-voters.
Still, I can't help but think, there were so many Republicans, established, well connected Republicans and big Republican media sources, all of which refused to vote for Trump. This vote shouldn't have even been close. There were people who were convinced to vote for Trump that simply weren't being counted. Where did they come from? How can we convince them not to vote for him again, or how can they be convinced to vote for the Democrats in midterms? PC culture, as it's being called, isn't convincing them of anything except that progressives are the enemy. And unless we can change their minds, they're going to keep voting for people like Trump.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama