re: #93 freetoken

I don’t see how to change that.

The upper Mississippi valley is either strongly Dem (IL), mostly Dem (MN), and swingers (IA, WI). The candidates tend to concentrate on the swingers.

West of the Missouri river, though, is socially, ideologically, quite different than what one would find in the Democratic Party platform.

And I doubt that will change for several decades.

Let’s take Nebraska for example. NE hasn’t gone blue since Johnson ran in ‘64. It has been a red state since Moby Dick was a minnow. No amount of public appearances or campaign ads was going to change that overnight. At this point, the argument seems to be that Democrats are to be damned for not making the effort, as if the effort alone would have made a difference to the outcome.