Just a heads up, Trump is potentially solid in the EC.

[herding cats]

Let's be smart here and not assume again everyone everywhere thinks like we do, please?

Register voters and work your butts off, I beg you all. For all of us, for our democracy, for our freedoms we've all enjoyed. FIGHT! fight like we're about to lose everything, because we very well might.

Trump’s Electoral College Edge Could Grow in 2020, Rewarding Polarizing Campaign

President Trump’s approval ratings are under water in national polls. His position for re-election, on the other hand, might not be quite so bleak.

His advantage in the Electoral College, relative to the national popular vote, may be even larger than it was in 2016, according to an Upshot analysis of election results and polling data.

That persistent edge leaves him closer to re-election than one would think based on national polls, and it might blunt any electoral cost of actions like his recent tweets attacking four minority congresswomen.

For now, the mostly white working-class Rust Belt states, decisive in the 2016 election, remain at the center of the electoral map, based on our estimates. The Democrats have few obviously promising alternative paths to win without these battleground states. The president’s approval ratings remain higher in the Sun Belt battlegrounds than in the Rust Belt, despite Democratic hopes of a breakthrough.
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The president’s views on immigration and trade play relatively well in the Northern battlegrounds, including among the pivotal Obama-Trump voters.

There are signs that some of these voters have soured on his presidency, based on recent polling. There is also reason to think that white working-class voters who supported Mr. Trump were relatively likely to stay home in last November’s midterm elections.

A strategy rooted in racial polarization could at once energize parts of the president’s base and rebuild support among wavering white working-class voters. Many of these voters backed Mr. Trump in the first place in part because of his views on hot-button issues, including on immigration and race.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/upshot/trump-electoral-college-edge-.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

We need to be laser focused here. Please, I'm imploring of you all.

[RDANGELO]

1. I fully intend to volunteer heavily in the next election.

That being said, any polls that I have seen from the swing states that elected Trump in 2016(Wisconsin,Michigan and Pennsylvania), have shown that he is in trouble in those states.

[herding cats]

4. Don't be complacent is my takeaway here.

Here's the facts:

The economy is good.

Swing states tend to be kitchen table specific.

They're also, potentially are still easy prey to Trump nationalist message.

I'm. Scared.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Me too, herding cats.

I recently heard a prediction that he could lose the popular vote but win the Electoral College. I think it was on PBS Newshour. I feel like things are so scattered and chaotic with such a large field. I wish two thirds of them would drop out already. It seems so selfish to me that the real long shots don't just get a clue and conceed that they are just muddying the waters. I may just be anxious for nothing but I admit to owning my feelings and my gut is telling me things are not going well.

[fallout87]

13. Same here

They are only going to hurt our chances... the infighting will get really bad soon and will only help the orange monster.

[herding cats]

14. Oh, I hear you.

Choir, preach and all that. I'm with you!

I have a couple of candidates running I've been harboring close to my heart for years, I get it. I really do. As much or more than most, but this is some weird, scary times we're in now. Nothing is normal anymore.

[Dawson Leery]

2. The electoral college was supposed to be the Democratic security bumper.

That was wrong. Democrats could win by 8+ points and lose the electoral college.
There is a good chance we will under perform in the electoral college next year.

[herding cats]

17. All politic is local.

As true today as when it was coined before my emergence into politics. The problem is, we're still not listening. That's a fact.

[myohmy2]

3. so...

...what are they saying?...with the conniving of trump, putin and the 1%, re-election is in the bag?

" His advantage in the Electoral College, relative to the national popular vote, may be even larger than it was in 2016..."

...oh boy, I'm having nightmares tonight...

...

[herding cats]

20. Don't have nightmares, get focused.

I'm sorry, I know some of us are tired and disenchanted. I get it and I'm right there with you, but it's gonna take all, of us to to fix this shit.

[Iliyah]

5. Nope. The economy for EC states

are not very good maybe with the exception of PA.

Too early to claim this. Another article to dissuade people from voting.

Vote.

[herding cats]

7. Seriously? The entire point of the article blew that far over your head?

This is the antithesis of an article trying to "dissuade people from voting." It's a wake up call to get off our dead asses, accept that we're not anointed in 2020 and fucking work to get the idiot out of office. Which apparently is warranted.

[secondwind]

6. He's down 10 points in Wisconsin, and is

losing Independents. Let’s not forget that he won by less than one-half of one percent.

[herding cats]

8. Oh, right.

Nothing to worry about. Excuse me for for posting.

[herding cats]

18. Please, read the article.

Then reply, ok?

[Duppers]

10. We need Mueller to step up to the plate

Next Wednesday. It's been said, "Folks don't read the books but they do watch the movies."

His testimony better the explicit and without equivocation.

TRump's network of crooks stole the election and have since committed crime after crime.

Hopefully, many people will then open their eyes.

[herding cats]

12. I'm not sure there's a knight going to step up and save us here.

Regretfully, I suspect it's all on us and our work in swing states. Which I'm not even convinced Mueller will influence. They're more kitchen table politics.

[Duppers]

15. Good point!! It's GOTV in those states.

We need to beat the drums on Health Care Issues. The thugs cannot touch the Dems' programs.

Crazy idea: large numbers of Puerto Ricans should move to the Swing States so that they could vote. That'd do it. Democratic businesses should sponsor them coming.


Re: Mueller, my hubs thinks it's a mistake to count on Mueller too, mostly because he believes that Mueller will go back to his equivocation, with his thinking that speaking the blunt truth will be "taking sides."

[herding cats]

16. I suspect your hubs is correct.

It doesn't make me happy to say such, but I'm working off the theory "leopards don't change their spots."

[Rhiannon12866]

29. I completely agree, there is no way we can take chances

What sane person could have imagined anyone would vote for an offensive creep like this the last time?? But too many did and that's why we're in the fix we are now. We need to cross every T and dot every i - and work like hell to make sure it never happens again!

[videohead5]

19. Trump won in 2016 because

Democrats stayed at home. Philadelphia was down 100,000 votes from 2012. Only a few Obama voters voted for Trump. If Democrats turn out in 2020 like they did in 2012 Trump can't win. They are basing the turn out to be the same as 2016. I really don't think that will happen.

[misanthrope]

22. It also depends as much on where they turn out

The Democratic candidate would need to swing a few states.

[videohead5]

27. I believe Arizona

Will turn blue in 2020.

[uponit7771]

30. +1, they want a horse race vs facts

[misanthrope]

21. I have to admit to morbid curiosity

as to the fallout should such a scenario unfold, Trump losing the popular vote by nearly twice the margin he did in 2016 yet still squeaking out the electoral college win. Would it be enough to finally change the method of presidential elections? Would it endanger the electoral college?

[herding cats]

25. How could it end the EC?

We're not winning the senate this next round, let alone with a super majority. There's no path to that. We're boxed into our current system. We need, desperately to be laser focused on what we want down the road. Because, despite fantasies, that shit isn't happening, anytime in our foreseeable futures.

Love and respect to you.

[misanthrope]

26. I didn't necessarily mean in one fell swoop

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The Electoral College is in the Constitution, after all. It would take a hell of a lot of effort to get a constitutional amendment passed. What it could do is give momentum for change a big boost.

[diva77]

23. Rethugs stole governorship in FL -- and "gov" DeSantis appointed Laurel M. Lee SOS in January 2019.

Previously, she had been appointed by ex gov Rick Scott as a judge for FL 13th Judicial circuit.

Gee, she don't sound like a Dem to me. Beware of Rethug SOS's

[onetexan]

24. Obama carried 28 states in 2008 & and 26 in 2012

He lost Indiana & North Carolina in 2012. Not sure if the margins will stay aligned but i'll try pasting the info from Wikipedia here (hate using them but this is fastest i can find and it looks fairly accurate).

Obama's 2008 numbers against Mccain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election

Obama Mccain
Electoral vote 365 173
States carried 28 + DC + NE-02 22
Popular vote 69,498,516 59,948,323
Percentage 52.9% 45.7%

Obama's 2012 numbers against Romney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election

Obama Romney
Electoral vote 332 206
States carried 26 + DC 24
Popular vote 65,915,795 60,933,504
Percentage 51.1% 47.2%

My takeaway here is our Dems nominee must carry at least the same states in 2012 reelection to win. Given the state of things it's very possible. But we must GOTV and get the disaffected Dems & independents out to vote.

What gives me hope is MorningConsult's tracking of the Idiot's net approval https://morningconsult.com/tracking-trump/.
A couple notables from the map graphic on this site:
- Shows that since 2016 things have changed from positive to negative currently. Note FL, NC & AZ, which all went for the Idiot in 2016, is showing negative net approval ratings for him.
- Georgia is shows the Idiot with a net approval of ZERO
- Kansas & Missouri are showing net approvals of 2 & 1 respectively.

I'm keeping up the positive thinking here. We have great candidates for the nomination. We can do this but we gotta fight like hell. Too much is at stake.

[John Fante]

28. The overconfidence of 2016 has given way to

a complete lack of confidence in 2020. Just great.

[uponit7771]

31. There's no reason to believe 2020 will be more free and fair than 2016

[Gothmog]

32. We have to nominate an electable candidate

I really believe that if sanders is the nominee, trump will win 45+ states

[in2herbs]

33. Does this mean the only way to get him out of office is to start an impeachment proceeding and

stroke him out of office? If so, I'm up for that.