The Map Is the Math
Now we have to elect 2 Democratic senators in 33 other states, and there aren’t that many states on the east and west coasts. Hillary Clinton won only 20 states in November 2016 (including part of Maine). So that’s 13 states that went for Trump where if Democrats want a veto-proof Senate they need to persuade voters to elect Democratic senators. The anger progressives hold for Trump voters in those red states is both unproductive and non-strategic. If we want to repair the damage coming from a Trump administration and change the map, we have to engage red-state voters who can be reached and not forfeit them to the right, or else we are just howling at the moon. Winning out there was what Howard Dean’s 50-state plan was about, and the party abandoned it.
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