Beet
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« on: November 21, 2016, 05:37:09 PM » |
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Because red states are becoming the equivalent of blue cities.
I noticed Hillary's share of the vote in Mingo county, WV dropped to 14%. A county that was going Dem as recently as the early 2000s. Democrats are so alien in these places, they may as well be a foreign species. As recently as 2006/08, this was not so. A local blue dog could still make a credible appeal. In recent years, as Democrats chased their 'Obama coalition', vast swathes of the country fell off the radar. I remember in 2003, Zell Miller published a book indicting the Democratic party as 'A National Party No More'. It wasn't true then, but it's true now.
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