“Hope you like Canada (I do).”
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I don’t. I’m an American, not a Canadian, so I’ll pass on that.
Candidate Trump and his family spent a lot of time in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, and won the district by 10 points.
Maine, like Nebraska, splits it’s electoral votes by congressional district. Nebraska has three congressional districts and Maine has only two.
Trump received one Electoral vote for carrying the 2nd District, which covers 80% of the state and, in area, is the largest congressional district east of the Mississippi.
Hildabeast Rotten Criminal won Maine’s more liberal (and more heavily populated) First CD, giving her one Electoral vote. She narrowly won the statewide vote by 2.9% (because of the more heavily populated First CD), giving her two more electoral votes.
Have CD 1 in Maine join Massachusetts and 80% of the state would be as red as a ripe apple.
What happens to the lib area in a state like Texas? Austin (Berkeley on the Prairie), Houston, Dallas, El Paso, the counties in the Rio Grande Valley?
We can’t get rid of all libs. I was thinking by doing it county, the Dems could keep much of New Mexico, a corridor of Southern Arizona and the Rio Grande Valley, connected to coastal California-Las Vegas-Western Washington-Western Oregon. But I can’t imagine a corridor to include Maine’s 2nd, which I am very aware of, inasmuch as it’s on the way to Canada. (And itself is very much worth the visit!)
But the good news: I didn’t realize how well Trump did in upstate New York. We’d have to claim part of Vermont, which won’t go over well with the natives... but screw’em. Maine’s nice.