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First of all, Hillary won the popular vote. So she's more popular than he is. Secondly, if you look at the electoral Map of the most populated states, she single handedly dominated metropolitan regions. In Ohio, she won Cleveland and Columbus. In Florida, she won Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, and Miami. Same for Wisconsin
So shut up about Silent Majority. Trump only won the boondocks vote. He couldn't have won without the White uneducated vote.
Clinton is more popular in the Socialist Republic of California than the rest of the country, so what?
First of all, Hillary won the popular vote. So she's more popular than he is. Secondly, if you look at the electoral Map of the most populated states, she single handedly dominated metropolitan regions. In Ohio, she won Cleveland and Columbus. In Florida, she won Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, and Miami. Same for Wisconsin
So shut up about Silent Majority. Trump only won the boondocks vote. He couldn't have won without the White uneducated vote.
And what exactly did all that get her and sniveling elitists like yourself? NOTHING. You and Hilary now have a one way ticket back to whatever liberal hole you came from.
Not really. In this election and the last two prior the Republican vote has been stable, right around 60 million votes. Trump didn't win so much as Hillary lost -- there were a lot of Democrats who didn't like Hillary nor Trump and just stayed home. Once all the ballots are counted the Democrat turnout will probably be about 6 million less than 2008. So, again, Trump didn't really win -- his was an election by abstention.
Turnout wasn't that low, boss. I've seen it put at 55%, which isn't that bad for a U.S. election. If the Democrats need it to be much higher than that to win an election, they're in trouble.
I've never understood the whole "Silent Majority" schtick, anyway. Heaven knows, the Trumpites have been *anything* but silent.
It refers to the 1960s, when supposedly the leftists were shrill, brusque, voluble and obnoxious with their vituperative screaming; while the right was measured, decorous, quiet and subdued. Leftists, as goes the narrative, were petulant babies; while rightists were carrying the proverbial load. That at least was the Nixonian propaganda. Thereafter, the implication was that the left is largely impotent and devoid of solid proposals, but incessantly screaming, incessantly protesting and complaining. The right, by the same implication, was substantive and constructive, but kept mum; the strong, silent type.
The oddity is conservative talk-radio. Is there such a thing as liberal talk radio? NPR podcasts? I would opine that today it is the right, or at least elements of the right, that's shrill and orotundly bombastic.
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... NeverTrump cost him the states of Minnesota, New Hamshire, Nevada, Maine, New Mexico, and would have just barely fallen short in VA.
My biggest regret in this entire election-cycle, was that "Never Trump" was more of an idle abstraction, than a serious movement. Centrist and conservative opposition to Trump fizzled.
First of all, Hillary won the popular vote. So she's more popular than he is. Secondly, if you look at the electoral Map of the most populated states, she single handedly dominated metropolitan regions. In Ohio, she won Cleveland and Columbus. In Florida, she won Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, and Miami. Same for Wisconsin
So shut up about Silent Majority. Trump only won the boondocks vote. He couldn't have won without the White uneducated vote.
The right will shut up about the silent majority when the left will acknowledge the fact that 3 million illegal non citizen votes were cast for Clinton, making Trump the winner of the popular vote.
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