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How did Obama win swing states two times!, and Hillary couldn't even beat the inexperienced and bombastic Trump?Tells you more about the candidate than the party. How would splitting off cities as sovereign states help if we continue to rely on an electoral college? That was the intent of the EC to begin with, so that the playing field was leveled and highly populated cities didn't control elections.
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How did Obama win swing states two times!, and Hillary couldn't even beat the inexperienced and bombastic Trump?Tells you more about the candidate than the party. How would splitting off cities as sovereign states help if we continue to rely on an electoral college? That was the intent of the EC to begin with, so that the playing field was leveled and highly populated cities didn't control elections.
Because Democrats used to be against bad trade deals (look at the NAFTA vote) and now they are for them. Democrats changed their position and voters changed how they voted. The party of free trade and Wall St will not win in the Midwest.
I've been as gracious, and patient as anyone could expect with the Hillary supporters after the election, but honestly, it's time to get over it, Hillary lost.
Dems, do us all a favor, and stop posting these threads.
I suppose threads like this are cheaper, safer, and more fun than actually going to a therapist. Try to display compassionate conservatism and play along a while longer with the BlueEXIT crew
I've been as gracious, and patient as anyone could expect with the Hillary supporters after the election, but honestly, it's time to get over it, Hillary lost.
Dems, do us all a favor, and stop posting these threads.
If it's therapeutic in some way, I'll take the online rantings of the alt-left as they're much safer in a virtual environment as compared with what occurs when mobs of these folks get together in the real world.
It wouldn't work. It would just increase the number of GOP dominated 3-6 elector states, thereby increasing the electoral votes for the GOP, more than you'd have done for the newly minted states of Philadelphia, Detroit, etc. Take this to it's logical conclusion, and you hand even more electoral votes to the GOP in the states of New York, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Maryland, California and others. The GOP dominates the rural areas of all of those states. They are presently silenced by the vote of the populated cities.
And form their own state! They all got heavily trolled in this election! They overwhelmingly reject trump but the rural areas made trump win like 1% overall and all these big cities are now forced to vote for trump.
Think about it, these major cities are the economic powerhouses of their states and attract Tourism, investment and human capital in that state. Their metropolitan area have more people than many small states that trump won
Without the population centres, the states that trump won narrowly thanks to rural areas will just be another West Virginia or South Dakota.
The residents of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would be highly alarmed about such a proposal.
And form their own state! They all got heavily trolled in this election! They overwhelmingly reject trump but the rural areas made trump win like 1% overall and all these big cities are now forced to vote for trump.
Think about it, these major cities are the economic powerhouses of their states and attract Tourism, investment and human capital in that state. Their metropolitan area have more people than many small states that trump won
Without the population centres, the states that trump won narrowly thanks to rural areas will just be another West Virginia or South Dakota.
It's attitudes like this that pushed Trump over the top, he thanks you for your support and keep up the good work.
I got some news for you, like it or not we are in this together because those cities are dependent on the rural areas and far more than they are them. It's coal and natural gas from the rural parts of Pennsylvania that allows Philadelphia to turn the lights on, power their manufacturing and so on so forth. It's the agricultural sector that puts food on the tables of people living in Philly. Without those resources welcome to Mad Max.
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