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Dem2

(8,166 posts)
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 02:55 AM Dec 2016

Now 2.5 Million vote lead, 2% win

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133Eb4qQmOxNvtesw2hdVns073R68EZx4SfCnP4IGQf8/htmlview?sle=true

Pretty decisive win IMO; seems likely she just needed to appeal more to everyday blue collar economy/jobs issues and she would have carried the rust belt states. Shame we underestimated their ability to be duped by a lying piece of shit who said what they wanted to hear.

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LisaM

(27,758 posts)
4. Google could change those stats on their own by putting jobs in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania.
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 03:32 AM
Dec 2016

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If I was just getting out of college Pittsburgh or Madison would have appealed to me as much as anywhere.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
5. She had an infrastructure program and an energy program for jobs;
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 05:22 AM
Dec 2016

she supported unions; and she supported Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, unlike the other guy -- all things that should be important to rust belt workers.

But Trump knew how to appeal to them: with racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, and Homophobia.

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