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PoliGAF 2016 |OT15| Orange is the New Black
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i really didn't know there were so many racist/sexist/xenophobic white people around these days. this result is startling exactly for that reason.
losing pennsylvania of all places is the one fucking thing that shouldn't have happened. hell, minnesota is close. where the actual fuck did all these people come from?
Yeah, I won't deny that the time for this was forty years ago. I'm not sure how it's possible with the state of the current Republican Party.
Coriolanus
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because republicans, historically, fall in line. democrats, historically, do not.
Hillary was a worse candidate than Trump. Trump has a shitload of flaws but he had a clear message that resonated with voters.
This wasn't so much a failure of campaigns as she was vastly better funded and organized. This is on her.
Basileus777
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He was arguably the best candidate available.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Dixiecrats just voted for Paul Ryan to privatize Social Security and the media covered the fact that this would happen for a total of zero seconds during the campaign and Dixiecrats may have no idea that they voted for this, wheee.
UltimaPooh
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Wonder what the next thread title will be.
PoliGAF took the biggest L in a while tonight.
Also it's not about adopting Republican strats...
It's about making the messaging more broad so that when you want to raise taxes on the rich, the working class can stomach it and not hear taxes going up.
PoliGAF took the biggest L in a while tonight.
Also it's not about adopting Republican strats...
It's about making the messaging more broad so that when you want to raise taxes on the rich, the working class can stomach it and not hear taxes going up.
DontBeThatGuy
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I mean, he was the best candidate for a certain (massive)sub-section of people, sure.
BronzeWolf
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I want to admit that I am tired.
So much time, energy and emotion invested, to waste. I just need a good sleep
So much time, energy and emotion invested, to waste. I just need a good sleep
Astaleview
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I'm still alive. I did not die. I will be apart of the change to come. I will never give up. Get em next time. Alot of things needed to change along time ago for everybody. Everything and everyone counts.
I mean, when we're talking "worst candidate", we're usually talking about stuff like scandals. Emails and shit.
If Clinton was the worst candidate, it was because she was milquetoast.
JetBlackPanda
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Get ready for all the tweets and stuff from people that will want their vote back.
BigJonsson
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Wow
aspiegamer
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There's going to be soooooooooooooo much pressure on the few moderate R senators to not cast the deciding votes on things that they know will destroy the country.
So millions of people probably thought it was in the bag and stayed home. Lovely.
She will, but everyone learned from Gore's mistake conceding way too early. Nobody is hurt by letting all the votes be counted.
CrimzonSamurai
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Randolph Freelander
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I mean
BreezyLimbo
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Yup
democrats are too busy being kind and thinking about hurting feelings
Republicans fall in line. I've always said that. It was always a point of worry.
And here we are. They fail in line. Democrats were possibly splintered. "I won't vote for a crook. I'll vote 3rd party. I won't vote at all. I'll vote Trump, that'll show them."
Those motherfuckers needed to fall in line. Motherfuckers.
People will say this, but he won because he directly appealed to a large part of the electorate. I fucking hate Trump, but he was apparently a great candidate for a large part of the population (esp in swing states).
Yep even if we can bounce back, how do we defeat white rural America?!. And for that matter how much will bleed with all the irreversible damage that is about to be done?. It's hard to be optimistic when we are in the darkest timeline and there's no way out.
Democrats didn't show up.
Nazgul_Hunter
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This. People need to realize everything we thought we knew was wrong.
Trump brough out general election voters in the primary. Wrong.
Trump wouldn't crack the blue wall. Wrong.
There was systemic polling errors.
Obamas approval ratings could be completely wrong
We literally don't have the data or understanding to say he was the worst candidate as far as electability goes
DontBeThatGuy
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They didn't vote.
Roberto Duran
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CNN just called WI for Trump. Wow.
Basileus777
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These numbers are just damning for Hillary as a candidate. It was more than just the surge of rural white voters.
if it turns out the millennials didn't vote even up to what they were expected to I am going to be so mad.
BreezyLimbo
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so what's first boys and girls
making the UN pay for our services
or leaving the UN
what will papa putin want
making the UN pay for our services
or leaving the UN
what will papa putin want
That sounds like big bold lies to me.
VendettaRed07
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Hillary did not and could not make herself and extension of him.
No matter what how much she hugged him. She wasn't Obama and we made a mistake nominating her.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Assuming this holds, are we so sure there was really record turnout from rural whites as opposed to the turnout from democratic voters falling? Trump isn't looking like he'll match the number of votes Romney got.
To be fair, that 54% statistic is basically trash now.
elvisaintdead
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Maybe the next strategy to increase turnout should be to get a bunch of celebrities together to tell people: "Don't vote, it's not a big deal."
JetBlackPanda
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Sure it does.. the same people aren't included in Obamas favorables.
Officerrob
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Who's to say that 54% number is true? Are you ready to rely on polling at this point?
It says it all. She didn't even carry fucking Pennsylvania.
How do we square this with record turnout in FL other states? Did Trump really turn out the white vote like crazy or did the Obama coalition not turn out at 2008/2012 levels?
BigJonsson
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AP Called it for Trump
Way to go USA
Way to go USA
its not 'anymore'. Its just this election. A massive rural white turnout isn't the new normal until it becomes a trend.
VendettaRed07
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SenorArdilla
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Strange. Democrats are skipping out on presidential elections too?
Looks like both?
Coriolanus
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