@gavinbena
I remember all the times Biden and Trump visited Montana and Kansas and Vermont and Wyoming. They really brought attention to those flyover states
@PopulistPennsy1
Well you could center one just on Oklahoma County that’s much more competitive than the others but they cut the county when there was no need to so I’d say a little bit yes
@alex2yc
Some political analysts said that Carter’s early concession to Reagan possibly depressed turnout in narrow Western Senate races that still had lines and hadn’t been called yet
@little_bird76
@ProudElephantUS
That 90% figure is inflated by all the safe races, if you narrow the scope to competitive ones it’s a far worse picture, Mastriano, Oz, Diehl, Cox, Dixon, Michels, Lake, Masters, Laxalt, Walker, Bolduc all lost
Trump-Sanders ran a serious ground game in the Midwest rurals, with Clinton taking weak urban returns and Cruz holding up suburban walls between the two. Given the nature of the election, no candidate passed 50% in a state, and 70% in a county, save for D.C.
@gavinbena
Kaine is cooked, but GOP will have ideological crisis on who to lead the ticket since neocon, Wall Street, populism and grassroots conservatism failed to oust dems for 2 decades
The net vote changes of the GOP from Romney to Trump. Many liberal urban and suburban areas lost thousands of GOP voters, while Trump piled up rural margins, yet not in counties with large minority populations. Trump overall netted 2 million votes more than Romney.