re: #674 BigPapa

I’m done with the ‘Democrats aren’t reaching out’ platitudes. It’s no secret how DT connected with the rural white voter: talk shit about brown/black folk, I’ll protect you from scary people not brown/black (‘the media’), he’ll stick it to others that challenge your way of life.

Sorry, let’s call it what it is. Racism and xenophobia. White rural America voted bigly, the rest of America did not.

The Democrats do not need to reach out to backwards ass snowflakes: they need to reach out and smack upside the head millennials that only sorta show up for presidential elections: mid terms you punks. Get some.

Should they try? Sure. But it will only go so far. They need to focus on who they could win and try to win a few percentage points more. Walks and singles can win a series, you don’t need to swing for the bleachers every 4 years.

Fine. Cede those electoral votes. Don’t play a long political game, just keep focusing in the areas where the party knows it can win (Penna. Mich. Wisc.) and we’ll see how that works out in the future.

Ceding all those states in the middle without even trying is a bunch of senatorial electoral votes (forget the house votes) half the size of California’s count, but if you don’t need them, fine.

Did Car Thief get re-elected in California? Haven’t heard yet. (If he did, the GOP is certainly not dead in California.)