And THAT is why we have the electoral college.
Other than that, it's Trump country.
NYT does one thing right - election results. They were the first ones to see the Trump victory. By 9:30, the NYT website clearly showed me that Trump was on his way to victory while everybody else was in freak-out mode for several more hours.
I would love to see detailed analysis on what makes city dwellers so much more likely to be far left liberal democrats.
Even in the most conservative locales there is a small island of blue (or at least bluer) in a sea of red.
As population density goes up, it seems that reliance on the government increases.
I’d like to figure out the “why.”
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There’s your CW 2 battlefield.
not so red as I thought. too much baby blue let alone the deep blue urban areas.
Very interesting!
South of the City of Los Angeles there is a lot of Trump country!
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I was with people this weekend who are Dems but, found Hillary Loathsome and they voted for Trump
Gawd, I hope they keep discussing raising taxes...
Thanks! This was fun. I’m moving and it was fun seeing how my new neighborhood voted street by street. Sometimes the Times gets it right. Rarer and rarer, though.
It’s pretty obvious in my area: homeowners for Trump, apartment-dwellers for Hillary.
How to see this without paying? I even already pay for the cooking part of the NYT but I don’t want to pay for the politics.
It would be interesting to see congressional districts overlaid on that map.
Bkmk
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
The 16th Amendment, the amendment that effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, needs to disappear too.
13th Amendment:
Section 1: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
The press use state wide or nationwide poll data and trends to measure things like Blue Waves. Real professionals work at the precinct level, always. The reason that those professionals go it so wrong in 2016 is that this result on this map did not match the historical data of previous elections. The conventional wisdom is that since this year’s election is a midterm and since “everyone” hate Trump, the map of this election will not look like this one, the map will look like previous elections except with more Blue. The people who are making those assumptions all live in those Blue enclaves and that’s where most of the predictions originate.
I think that this year’s election will look more like the 2016 map which will be good for Trump and good for the American people, but that’s no scientific analysis. In fact, I think that the Trump camp will get more support this time, because Trump has delivered across the board and no one wants tax increases, demise of ICE, and the Socialist takeover of the Democrat Party. Not a good time to be a Democrat.
Wow. A veritable sea of red. Like the clam flats in Buzzards Bay in the Summer at low tide.
Take a look at Irvine California....South of LA where the 405 and the 5 intersect Southeast of Rt. 133. Zoom in and locate the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.
Half of the area (Marine Way) shows white and the popup says 99% Hillary. The other half (Where Irvine Blvd. splits it) Shows 67% Hillary.
Somehow...I doubt those numbers are accurate.
It seems like more people would be counting the votes in those precincts than are actually voting.