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nafod wrote:

DrDonkeyLove wrote:County map of the election. Lots on view here as to the main puzzle pieces of the Dem coalition.

And now she is up by 2,000,000 in the popular vote.

I'm not saying that snarkily, it's just an interesting contrast between human and physical geography.

I was thinking the same thing as it relates to "the will of the people" in a republic. There are other more nuanced county based election maps with shades of red vs. blue but I thought this one was interesting because of the starkness.

dead man walking wrote:will you grant that there is at least a little irony in the fact that a self-centered billionaire who doesn't pay his bills acted as the champion of a middle class that feels ignored?

from his gold-plated loft, he feels their pain.

The irony is he's better connected to regular people than the media and the political class.

horseshit. he's a clever snake in a bleach blonde wig.

his college was a fraud. his charity was a fraud. his promises to the communities in which he builds are lies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world ... v=top-news

oh dear

Let's not forget about Trump's most effective supporter.