I devoutly wish for devastating hurricanes to slam to into the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, one after the other, until the country rejects their monstrous President.
1. A plurality of Americans rejected Donald Trump, 48-46, in the election. Donald Trump simply won the right votes.
2. Approval polls of the President are now showing approval in the mid-30s and disapproval near 60 nationwide.
3. Disapproval in some states that he won is high enough that he could never win those states again -- at the least, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
DEM stands for how many electoral votes a Democrat would get before carrying a state or district, REP what the Republican nominee (I now assume Trump) would get, the disapproval rating for Trump in the most recent polling data (I estimate 80 for Dee Cee), ΔEV for the number of votes that the Democratic nominee would get if the states to the right of that column would get if winning the states to the right, and STATES for the state or district that would go for the Democratic nominee (maybe more precisely, against Trump).
DEM REP DIS ΔEV STATES
000 538 80 03 DC
003 535 71 58 CA VT
061 477 66 11 MA
072 466 65 14 NJ
086 452 64 10 MD
096 442 62 29 NY
125 413 61 13 VA
138 400 59 24 CT HI WA
161 377 58 20 IL
181 357 57 45 CO MI MN WI
222 312 56 15 DE NM OR
241 297 55 32 ME* NH PA RI TIPPING POINT/ZONE
273 265 54 11 AZ
284 254 53 06 NV
290 248 52 53 FL IA OH
343 195 51 36 TX
381 157 50 37 GA NC UT
418 120 48 16 IN WV
434 104 47 06 AR
440 098 46 19 MS MO MT
459 079 44 12 ND SC
471 067 43 16 LA NE* SD
487 051 42 29 ID KS KY TN
516 022 39 22 AL OK WY
538 000*Maine and Nebraska divide their electoral votes.
4. It is worth remembering that disapproval is 50% or more in some states (Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina) that President Trump won -- and those three states are vulnerable to hurricanes. The Greater Philadelphia area is the part of Pennsylvania that most clearly rejected the vile demagogue, and it is the part of the state most vulnerable to a hurricane. Except for a portion of Maine well shielded from hurricanes, the rest of America from the Virginia-North Carolina wisely rejected Donald Trump.
5. It is really bad taste to wish for evil to befall a nation because of a fluke in the political system. Maybe the plagues of Egypt might have been appropriate upon Nazi Germany, where people fell for the political leader who to this day most resembles Satan in his evil. The Germans were much more culpable than the Egyptians for the nastiness of their system. Were I God, I might have afflicted the first-born sons of gentiles in Germany; I would have dried up the rivers of Germany in a drought and then inflicted horrible blizzards; I would have taken command of the German radio frequently, stifling the speeches of Hitler and his gang and replacing them with warnings of greater horrors to be ended by letting My people (the Jews) go. At some point I might have solved the problem by transmuting a lead object in the Kroll Opera House (functioning in place of the Reichstag) during a speech of Hitler into U-235 and detonating it as an atomic bomb that destroys Hitler and most of his fellow criminals and a collection of high-ranking flunkies...
But that is extreme, and I am obviously not God.
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