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It's part of the expensive private school education we all get thanks to our wealthy parents.  The freedom afforded by our luxurious lifestyles help too. I came up with that one in the back of the limo on my way to the opera while the au pair cared for my children.
It's part of the expensive private school education we all get thanks to our wealthy parents.  The freedom afforded by our luxurious lifestyles help too. I came up with that one in the back of the limo on my way to the opera while the au pair cared for my children.
Oh come on...I went to one of those preppy institutions...you know the stereotype is not opera...you hit the bong hard and listen to Jerry and the boys, wear a lot of flannel and don't cut your hair for four years...until the day after graduation when you get cleaned up and than work in "finance"...but yes, there is an au pair...makes summers much easier on Nantucket...

 
It's not surprising urban liberals get bitter, they cling to Putin or racism or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-rural sentiment or anti-religion sentiment as a way to explain their frustration.
:rolleyes:

You're doing exactly what you complain about here, shoehorning millions of people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives into a dumb stereotype. It's a tired act no matter which side does it.

 
We were talking about the relative vote representation for president with the electoral college, and how the "slave" states were placated with it, and I made a tongue in cheek statement about how we don't call them "slave" states anymore.  Wisconsin, Michigan, and PA don't really fall into any part of that discussion, but let's take the most rural of them and break it down with what I'm concerned with in the EC:

As we discussed earlier, a Montana vote counts 3.6 times or so the amount that a California vote counts.  But let's look at Wisconsin with the same metrics.

Wisconsin: 5.75 million people, 10 EC votes; 1 EC vote per 575,000 people

California: 38.8 million people, 55 EC votes; 1 EC vote per 705,000 people

I have no issue with that split.  It's still very reasonably proportional.  

Wisconsin has many rural areas.  But it's populated enough to bring it into fairly proportional representation.  It's not even partisan.  I'm also talking about Delaware, and Vermont, and several others that always go blue.
I was simply pointing out that the rural vote went for Trump everywhere, even in areas that traditionally go blue.  I thought the slave state comment was a cheap shot.

I understand the frustration with the EC, but I see it as a means of representing minority rights.  The alternative would push candidates to a handful of states with big city centers.

I think it could be tweaked and made better, but I definitely do not want it changed to majority rule.

 
I was simply pointing out that the rural vote went for Trump everywhere, even in areas that traditionally go blue.  I thought the slave state comment was a cheap shot.

I understand the frustration with the EC, but I see it as a means of representing minority rights.  The alternative would push candidates to a handful of states with big city centers.

I think it could be tweaked and made better, but I definitely do not want it changed to majority rule.
I live in Louisiana, which was a slave state and now prefers to refer to itself as a "rural" state.  It's not a referendum on Wisconsin.

"Majority rule" is commonly referred to as "Democracy."

 
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I live in Louisiana, which was a slave state and now prefers to refer to itself as a "rural" state.  It's not a referendum on Wisconsin.

"Majority rule" is commonly referred to as "Democracy."
'Republic.'

When our state Alario-Legislature votes for a law and all the rural parishes just push something into effect by a few votes in the Senate over the votes from NO & BR, does anyone check the population of the parishes and districts of the Senators and Reps voting?

 
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'Republic.'

When our state Alario-Legislature votes for a law and all the rural parishes just push something into effect by a few votes in the Senate over the votes from NO & BR, does anyone check the population of the parishes and districts of the Senators and Reps voting?
Well... yes.  District maps are drawn based on the census.

 
I live in Louisiana, which was a slave state and now prefers to refer to itself as a "rural" state.  It's not a referendum on Wisconsin.

"Majority rule" is commonly referred to as "Democracy."
A pure democracy would suck.  I think minority rights are important.

 
The margin in those three states was less than 100,000 combined, and while she didn't campaign in WI or MI she did quite a bit in PA. She lost Florida by a bit over 100,000 and was all over the state. Not to totally excuse the Clinton team but I think the criticism over the campaign strategy has gone a little overboard with hindsight bias. I think the more important questions are why both internal and public polling was so far off in those states, and how policy and messaging needs to be adjusted to reach rural voters who clearly are feeling disconnected both socially and economically - and not without cause.
Instead of being the party of jobs and middle class, the Dems are now the party of defending transgenders and abortion.  Neither of which I care much about.  

 
Well... yes.  District maps are drawn based on the census.
Not really the question, Henry.

The question is when rural parishes votes something in over the city parishes, does someone ever say - has anyone ever said - oh well the real vote is (NO area votes) + (BR area votes) vs (Iberville, Beauregard + all other rural parishes)? No. It never happens.

 
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But yet it is the politico reporter that got fired. So strange that a reporter would get fired for so accurately reporting something. Here's your pigeon.  :cstu:
Someone a bit sensitive this morning and can't recognize a joke?

Of course the reporter was fired and should have been.  Not quite the forum or the way to go about things.  Does not change the things Don has said though...but you keep trying there guy...

 
Instead of being the party of jobs and middle class, the Dems are now the party of defending transgenders and abortion.  Neither of which I care much about.  
What if instead of defending transgenders and abortion, they had to defend something you did care about.  Separation of church and state, availability of porn, moral standards for movies and tv.  Would you care then?  Don't think that many conservative republicans wouldn't love to modify the current state of all three issues I mentioned. 

 
Trump's danger is in attacking our systems and institutions. Attacking a key system and institution is worse than counterproductive, it's dangerous.
I wouldn't worry about the danger of attacking our institutions. I have been assured by all of my crat friends that we will be long dead, from Trump having nuke codes, then being nuked by China, then killed by pollution loooooooong  before the crumbling institutions murder us. 

 
China should plan to take Taiwan by force after Trump call, state media says







Global Times says Beijing should ‘punish militarily’ any moves to undermine One China policy – which US president-elect has said he might not uphold




China should plan to take Taiwan by force and make swift preparations for a military incursion, a Communist party-controlled newspaper has said, after US president-elect Donald Trump broke decades of diplomatic protocol in the region.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/15/china-plan-taiwan-force-trump-call-state-media?CMP=share_btn_tw

- Totally useless, entirely manufactured out of thin air CRISIS where one did not exist before, with a nuke power who also happens to be the world's largest nation.

Great job.



 
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Gotta be some #Trumpregrets from the people out there who remember the cold war...
It seems like it must be exhausting to be a Trump supporter. Constantly jumping through new hoops to explain his shifting positions and exuse his insane behavior. 

Then the reward for all of that is taking a gigantic dump on the legacy and memory of Reagan. 

 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/15/china-plan-taiwan-force-trump-call-state-media?CMP=share_btn_tw

- Totally useless, entirely manufactured out of thin air CRISIS where one did not exist before, with a nuke power who also happens to be the world's largest nation.

Great job.
Are you talking about what Trump did or what China is doing?  Invading a country because the soon-to-be leader of a different country took a call from them is pretty silly.  Talk about thin skin.

 
It seems like it must be exhausting to be a Trump supporter. Constantly jumping through new hoops to explain his shifting positions and exuse his insane behavior. 
Is it really any different for a Hillary supporter?   After pooh-poohing the impact of foreign government influence now they have to pretend  like they give a #### about it. 

 
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Are you talking about what Trump did or what China is doing?  Invading a country because the soon-to-be leader of a different country took a call from them is pretty silly.  Talk about thin skin.
Here's a bit of advice...the demagoguery towards an internal opponent doesn't work so well with foreign actors.  The Chinese don't take slights so easily.  

 
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