Posted on 11/22/2016 10:39:01 AM PST by Steelfish
Donald Trump Lost Most of The American Economy In This Election By Jim Tankersley November 22
In the modern era of presidential politics, no candidate has ever won the popular vote by more than Hillary Clinton did this year, yet still managed to lose the electoral college. In that sense, 2016 was a historic split: Donald Trump won the presidency by as much as 74 electoral votes (depending on how Michigan ends up) while losing the nationwide vote to Clinton by 1.7 million votes and counting.
But there's another divide exposed by the election, which researchers at the Brookings Institution recently discovered as they sifted the election returns. It has no bearing on the election outcome, but it tells us something important about the state of the country and its politics moving forward.
The divide is economic, and it is massive. According to the Brookings analysis, the less-than-500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64 percent of America's economic activity in 2015. The more-than-2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36 percent of the country's economic activity last year.
Clinton, in other words, carried nearly two-thirds of the American economy.
Here's how the researchers, at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, visualized that. You can see immediately what's going on: With the exceptions of the Phoenix and Fort Worth areas, and a big chunk of Long Island, Clinton won every large-sized economic county in the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Days of the media is over; people have cut cable, hardly ever watch T.V. anymore, and the radio have proved to be a handy tool...a lot can get done by listening to people like Rush, Sean, Dave Ramsey, people like that...
We don't buy magazines anymore, and we don't get newspapers anymore, waste of money...besides you can come here and read what trash the media is putting out, someone on here will post it...so media are over, done, gone, in the garbage can...
Revisiting infinity:
If an infinite number of liberals typed an infinite number of Trump stories for an infinite number of years, every article would still be complete drivel.
DOW is breaking records since the election
Yeah, sure - I notice that the stock market is going through the roof.
I did see finance and government buildings however.
A factually dishonest article, typical of the Wash Compost. The entire county-wide analysis is based on “richness” as defined by GDP contribution of a county. Therefore there is a bias towards urban centers because GDP will be concentrated there since most corporate and govt. headquarters, along with the most retail centers will be found there. This also results in the most employment.
Likewise, most manufacturing processing is in urban centers as well because of the concentration of infrastructure, utilities, transportation, retail centers, etc. However, much of the raw material and agriculture extraction efforts will be in rural counties, but the greatest contribution from these efforts will show up in GDP in the processing centers, which are mostly in the large urban areas. All this leads to a bias in the entire reporting. In fact, I am surprised that there is not a greater disparity in the total GDP numbers. This just shows that small business is still very important in 2/3 of the country, accounting for about 1/3 of total GDP.
More fake news from leftist frauds. The “Brookings Institution” has been flacking for communism for as long as I remember.
That is exactly right. If something is not done, we will de facto be run by the policies of Mexico.
Yeah, step away from pounding the keys, idiots, and look at the stock market and the appointments going on in the Trump administration. And tell me again how the economy would flourish under Seize-and-freeze Hillary?
” Trump won w/ electoral votes while losing the nationwide vote to Clinton by 1.7 million votes and counting.
This so much balderdash. Clinton did not “win” the popular vote”
Well, she sure didn’t win the CITIZEN popular vote. Anchor babies, who get the vote at 400,000 PER YEAR and illegal aliens are who voted for HIllary. SHe’d be challenging the results if she didn’t know this. CALIFORNIA.
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“... while losing the nationwide vote to Clinton by 1.7 “
which number includes at least 3,000,000 illegally cast votes...mostly in California and almost certainly all for Clinton...soooooo...she DIDN’T win the popular vote.
Pure mental masturbation.
More wealth in the cities and more welfare/illegals to take advantage of it
Why would this not be one more RICO violation?
This administration has rung tax payers dry and redirected these settlement funds, from corporate organizations extortion activities, to hate groups like La Raza or the old ACORN communist inspired religionists.
End it.
Thanks! Great reply, I appreciate your insight.
Nevada is probably the best example. Killary won the counties surrounding Las Vegas and Reno. Every other county is red. Yet, Killary won the state:
God bless our Founding Fathers for foreseeing this possibility and establishing the Electorial College to combat this.
Most people commute to work from suburbs and exurbs that did go for Trump. A business building does not vote.
Still looking for that silver lining...
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