07-08-2019, 03:01 PM
(07-08-2019, 02:44 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: For the presidential election, I don't think it will have too much of an impact. Trump is in the White House because lots of Democratic voters stayed home because they weren't excited by Clinton and they thought it was in the bag. If they learned their lesson from that, they will get behind the nominee come November 2020. If they didn't learn their lesson from that, then they deserve another four years of Trump.
I do think we will continue to see a schism in Congress, though, and I'm glad for it. I want varying ideas within the Democratic caucus. I want there to be a challenge to the leadership because without there is groupthink. Without it, we have nothing but party line voters and that is a terrible thing.
That’s an easy pass the blame reason why Trump won. The biggest problem (not the only one) was he was able to flip enough blue collar workers that voted for Obama in those critical rust belt states. If too many voters “sat out”, how did Clinton still get 3 million more votes in the popular vote?
“We then examined each candidate’s base of support by respondents’ reported 2012 vote. The ANES data show that just over 13% of Trump’s voters backed Obama in 2012, while about 4% of Clinton’s support came from voters who voted for Romney in 2012.”
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/just-how-many-obama-2012-trump-2016-voters-were-there/
Too many people focus on Republican and Democratic parties, while the largest voting block are neither of those. We need a system with more than two parties to truly represent the electorate.
