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NickS (WA)'s avatar

One of the best nuts-and-bolts election post-mortem's that I've read.

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Cheez Whiz's avatar

Please don't stop. You're about the only person saying there's no Grand Unified Answer why Trump won, and you're again the only person I can find digging into the Republican microtargeting tactics, which I think was the plan that worked again.

As far as democracy, Karl Rove famously said "50% + 1". That's a win. Republicans have been all-in on gaming the system a long time. They rejected Rove's plan to open up the party to Hispanics since immigration fear was working great for them. I think the resignation of Nixon flat-out destroyed their faith in democracy, and the Republican party decided to show Democrats what hardball looked like.

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