frankj1 wrote:the key to winning modern elections is to get previously uninvolved voters to get off the couch and vote. Obama was successful with minorities twice. Hillary could not sustain that momentum.
She got many more votes than Trump overall, but did not work the geography intelligently.
A yuuuge part of Trump's win, considering electoral votes, was from the rust belt types (and pockets elsewhere in the same boat) who normally don't vote but were now stirred by enough passion and anger from the ongoing recovery bypassing them. Yeah, some got insurance, but few got jobs, or at least jobs worth having.
Things may revert however. Many of them have the same poor or non employment issues, and less have insurance...the question will be if they are still directing their anger where they did 2 years ago, or will they sit back on the couch?
I'm disappointed in this post.
First paragraph is fine.
Second is your way of saying "see! she got more votes!" You're better than that.
Third belittles American voters. Yes. It does.
And the last is twisting the facts. Americans are working like never before. There are half million open jobs and nobody to fill them. If people aren't working, they're either tied to young children or they aren't trying.
You might be right. They might be on the couch at the mid terms.
But I'm disappointed at your cynicism.