re: #86 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Dem strategy is apparently, “Write off the Midwest, except Illinois and maybe Missouri, because the GOP has a lock on those states.” It’s short sighted and, as we can see, a losing strategy.

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.