If the Democratic Party wants to regain these voters they should stop arguing over whether they need to move further to the right or left.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
They do this knowing full well that the party of smaller government isn't going to spend money to bring jobs to their newfound supporters.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
And ideologues in the Republican Party are more than willing to toss out meaningless platitudes and appeal to people's fears to gain seats.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
And ideologues in the Republican Party are more than willing to toss out meaningless platitudes and appeal to people's fears to gain seats.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
Hoping that shaking up the system would somehow make their lives better.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
Rust belt states are voting against the political parties not for a particular ideology. It started with the Tea Party, continued with DJT.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
Rust belt states have been hurting and they're voting Republican not so much out of ideological agreement but to give as bad as they've got.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
DJT certainly attracted a racist component, but I think the real force for him was the disaffected rust belt working class.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
But truly I believe any typical politician would have had trouble. DJT did so well exactly because he wasn't typical.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016
Certainly HRC had perceptual issues, not all of them justified. The lower tally in her column seems to bear that out.
— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016