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Originally Posted by goofyballer
But like, winning elections is better than losing them, no? We have to figure something out, and it doesn't have to compromise our core values, but it does have to a.) explain why we lost without resorting to glib "**** these idiots" conclusions b.) find policies that will make them vote for us.
So I was totally wrong about how this election went and this is going to sound crazy, but I don't think the basic playbook is bad! Still killing it with young people and minorities:
Obama still has high favorability numbers. The GOP is still stuck having to win the old white vote by historically unprecedented margins every election. Trump got fewer votes than Romney, fewer votes than McCain, hell, even got fewer votes than Hillary. They lost because Hillary was a very bad, terrible, no-good candidate who is not ever ever going to be president and also because they ran a 100% negative campaign that did a great job tearing down Trump (historically unprecedented unfavorables IIRC) but gave us no reason to vote
for Hillary.
I don't know how to turn this into a long-form editorial, but the take-home lessons are
1. Sweet Mary, Mother of God, throw the entire Clinton family into a time vortex and do not let them try to be president ever again.
2. Charisma matters. Sucks for guys like John Kerry, but voters have to be enthused to go out and vote. We need a better slogan than "lesser of two evils!"
3. Also, it turns out that all the polling outlets are completely wrong for some reason. Kind of a pisser to just figure this out now, but apparently the whole industry is broken.
So no, I really don't buy these arguments that we have to find some white guy from Kenosha to run and stop talking about low-income issues because man we just had a black guy from Chicago who gave out free healthcares to poors and that guy just dunked on the other team back to back and would easily win again if he was allowed to play.
Last edited by Trolly McTrollson; 11-18-2016 at 07:08 PM.