That's not how the EC works when these cities are already in states that are solidly Democratic. The number of Democratic votes from these cities in a Presidential election are largely meaningless.
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That's not how the EC works when these cities are already in states that are solidly Democratic. The number of Democratic votes from these cities in a Presidential election are largely meaningless.
EC takes into account the total votes in the states, it doesn't matter where they come from. If enough people turned out in the cities (like they did for Obama), the rest doesn't matter. We are talking about states like PA, Michigan and Wisconsin where city turnout is the key.
Democrat polices are so good republicans have all 3 branches of government and are still struggling to get rid of them.Hows Obamacare lite coming btw?
Thought about it,its only temporary.
Will Nancy Pelosi survive this latest Dem disaster?
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/22/nancy-pelosi-nancy-pelosi-karen-handel/
“Keeping our (House) leadership team completely unchanged,” Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio warned last November, “will simply lead to more disappointment in future elections.”
Democrats lost four straight special House elections this year with ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the party helm. In fact, one could argue that Pelosi and her baggage helped fuel the surprisingly easy victory of the GOP’s Karen Handel in Georgia Tuesday. GOP ads there tied Handel’s opponent to Pelosi and her “San Francisco values.”
That theme probably seems strange to the elite inside the Washington Beltway. But in flyover country like Iowa, where President Trump visited last evening, it rings long and loud like Quasimodo’s bells.
Fully one-third of Pelosi’s 193 House Democrats now come from just three states, the usual liberal suspects of California, New York and Massachusetts, not the crucial Heartland. Pelosi’s entire leadership team is also coastal, and like her, linger on in their mid-70s.
“San Francisco values” is a successful meme sure to be reappear in next year’s midterm elections, if — and that if now looms LARGER — Pelosi remains House minority leader. With the strategic planning and wily recruiting of former representative, now Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, Pelosi became House speaker after the 2006 elections when Democrats retook Congress.
But since Emanuel’s departure, it’s been trouble throughout Pelosi’s reign, BIG trouble. It began in 2010 with the help of Obama and his signature ObamaCare, which Pelosi had to pass to read. In that year’s midterms under Pelosi’s leadership, Democrats suffered the worst House losses of either party in 72 years, a swing of 63 seats to Republicans.
(More at above url)
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/22/nancy-pelosi-nancy-pelosi-karen-handel/
“Keeping our (House) leadership team completely unchanged,” Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio warned last November, “will simply lead to more disappointment in future elections.”
Democrats lost four straight special House elections this year with ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the party helm. In fact, one could argue that Pelosi and her baggage helped fuel the surprisingly easy victory of the GOP’s Karen Handel in Georgia Tuesday. GOP ads there tied Handel’s opponent to Pelosi and her “San Francisco values.”
That theme probably seems strange to the elite inside the Washington Beltway. But in flyover country like Iowa, where President Trump visited last evening, it rings long and loud like Quasimodo’s bells.
Fully one-third of Pelosi’s 193 House Democrats now come from just three states, the usual liberal suspects of California, New York and Massachusetts, not the crucial Heartland. Pelosi’s entire leadership team is also coastal, and like her, linger on in their mid-70s.
“San Francisco values” is a successful meme sure to be reappear in next year’s midterm elections, if — and that if now looms LARGER — Pelosi remains House minority leader. With the strategic planning and wily recruiting of former representative, now Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, Pelosi became House speaker after the 2006 elections when Democrats retook Congress.
But since Emanuel’s departure, it’s been trouble throughout Pelosi’s reign, BIG trouble. It began in 2010 with the help of Obama and his signature ObamaCare, which Pelosi had to pass to read. In that year’s midterms under Pelosi’s leadership, Democrats suffered the worst House losses of either party in 72 years, a swing of 63 seats to Republicans.
(More at above url)
These concerns you mention, concerns which are "real" in the minds of many voters, are based on both real and manufactured, alternative facts. Underlying, however, is a distrust of government that has been very effectively, and ironically, embedded in political discourse by the Republicans and has become pervasive not just among Republican voters but among many Democrats and independent voters as well. This has opened the door for an articulate and charismatic independent candidate, one that can be seen as an"outsider" to "establishment" politics; one that is not associated with the "deep state" -- just as Trump was seen, Should such a candidate arise in 2020, I think they will have a real chance of succeeding, but only if that candidate can garner the full support of the Democratic National Committee and run as a Democrat. We are not yet at that point where a third party candidate can win easily against even a Donald Trump. The Democrats may be in sufficient disarray to allow it, but the Republicans are not.
But we are definitely at the point- and we have been there before- where a third party candidate can determine the outcome of an election even if said candidate is not the winner. You could be there again very, very easily if the "progressives" put up a third party candidate. Even half percent of the vote could be catatrophic for one of the parties in the many extremely close elections that we have. You think the lefties would stand down and ultimately vote for the dem candidate rather than see a republican win? Heh, think again. They hate the cop-out crooked dems more than they do republicans. Think DeBlasio kind of nuts.
Try getting a candidate for 2020 who is not a serial felon like Hillary. That would at least be a better start than last time.