Fogdog
Well-Known Member
In a close election, especially one decided by the EC and not a majority vote, all the reasons and factors matter. In ranked order of importance by size of effect on overall vote, the choice of a few berners to vote for Trump is very small. The largest factor that drew voters to Trump was his racist and sexist rhetoric and policies. If you want to point at a reason why people didn't go for Clinton, that would be sexism and about 20 years of slime cast her way by right wingers.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/?utm_term=.58f89344309e
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds
http://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-trump-2016-election-654320
They use some of this guy's data
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris
I did not say that Bernie was the only reason that she lost. I don't believe that to be true.
The sex card works both ways, most likely against her; please understand that it is not a common theme of women who have overcome gender barriers to lead any of the G7 Nations to focus on the fact that they are women.
-find me an example of Theresa May asking for votes because she is a woman. One will do
-Angela Merkel is an even better example, she's always avoided bringing her gender up and has gone to great lengths to avoid it becoming a campaign issue whatsoever.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/angela_merkel
So when you speak of "spinning a story that ignores" you're talking about you not mentioning the numbers that I posted aren't you? Do you remember "the math doesn't lie"? Have I fulfilled that curiousity yet?
I am not saying what you are. I am saying that election with a millions of voters, outcomes can come down to a couple thousand vote difference. If that. Those are the votes that pick winners.
You seem preoccupied, mentioning about why everyone voted and for whom and why. I am unsure as to why you would bring up the popular vote, we both know that doesn't elect Presidents, silly
Back to what i thought we were talking about.
I am saying that some basic math shows how Bernie voters affected the outcome in the swing states. Are you doubting that, looking at those numbers?
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