Posted on 11/30/2016 4:48:06 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Democrats, of late, have taken to citing Hillary Clinton's historically large popular vote victory in the presidential race over Donald Trump as evidence that the country is still fundamentally on their side.
Judging by recent election results -- even before Clinton's stunning loss three weeks ago -- that's simply not true. Republicans not only control both the U.S. Senate and House but find themselves at or near historic highs in terms of governorships and state legislative control.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack got it exactly right then when he told The Washington Post's Greg Jaffe that the current state of the Democratic party is like a tree that "looks healthy on the outside but is in the throes of slow and long-term demise.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
This was in WP?!
Hold my coffee, I need to see if pigs are flying outside my window.
(hat tip Marc Thiessen)
“You can drive some 3,000 miles across the entire continental United
States — from sea to shining sea — without driving through a single
county that voted for Hillary Clinton.”
Let them lie. They are hell-bent on political suicide...we sure need no interventions.
It also vaporizes the similarly stupid statement that there were more D votes than R votes in Senate races this time. A CA Senate race D vs D — ten million D votes.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california-senate
Kudos....nice job.
repeating Liz' post.
Gotta get this on a tee shirt: (hat tip Marc Thiessen)
Appreciate the tips on the comments. I'll check them out.
The press likes to talk of Obama’s legacy. This is Obama’s legacy, lurching the Democratic party so far to the left that it is imploding.
HA! I second that!!!!! :D
Well, so much of the entire U.S. population is all focused there in California. But the constitution was not meant to address the entire national population, it was supposed to give voice to all states, especially when states like Rhode Island were scared back then of being bullied by larger states like Virginia and New York.
Yuri Bezmenov (1939-1993), former KGB propagandist and defector to the West
When the Trump crew gets National Voter Picture ID for USA Citizens ONLY required for voting in federal elections, restrictions on vote by mail, etc. then the demonRATS are cooked.
Well written. Thank you.
Well, Trump isn’t really a Republican, either, although he’s no RINO or GoPee. He’s closer to the old-fashioned Democrats of my early childhood. Something like Truman, who famously said, “I gave them truth and they thought it was hell.”
Perhaps America is waking up. Enough of this mindless “yay, team” crap. I’m hoping we see the ‘go along’ types go along with Trump and with America, for a change. Even if they start out just jumping on the tailgate of the wagon, maybe they’ll hang on long enough to get the message.
We need to become unified as Americans. Tribalization is bringing us perilously close to becoming the Balkans and some of us realize how that turns out.
The charts mainly show opposition to the politics of oppression. Today, Dem means a boot on our necks, bullying via political correctness, giving away the country, brazen theft and in-your-face tyranny. Whatever Republican means to the voter, it’s come down to: “Leave me alone and do your damn job as described in the Constitution.”
Even the GoPees might change and this time, go along with us. If not, we have elections all the time and we can remember their names.
One thing wrong in this article is that the progs “ignored’ rural America. The took us over at the grass roots level and used every repressive tactic they could to shut us up and marginalize us. We’re infested at this point. I am not in forgiving mood and I will not forget.
Keep your eyes on the snakes, folks. We have them on all sides.
Well, he won the presidential election twice, but it was apparently him as president that the voice of the people was so favorable to, the other politicians he endorsed? Not so much.
Actually, just remove Los Angeles County, New York County, Bronx County, and DC, and you subtract 2,262,680 votes from the difference. Add Cook County, the popular vote margin is -3,351,049.
This method subtracts both candidates' votes, so, but for five lousy counties, Trump would have won the popular vote by >1 million votes.
This illustrates, once again, the wisdom of the electoral college concept, which concept would be even better if the electors were assigned by counties or Congressional districts.
Obviously this was quite a while back. But boy do I wish I remembered who said it. That small whisper of a comment turned into a reality many of us couldn't have imagined in 2001.
Keith Ellison for DNC Chair doesn’t exactly sound like Democrats are moving back toward the center. Sounds like they’re doubling down.
And when they are not lying to themselves, they are lying to others.
THIS!! ^
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