New York Times, November 5, 2020:
What caught my eye here was the Live Update on the upper left, which, the day after the election, reports
In Georgia, where the race is tightening, 45 percent of voters said they’re doing better today than four years ago. In that group, nearly four of five supported Trump.
New York Times precinct map of 2016 US election:
Visualizing the United States as a place where the coasts vote Democrat while The Heartland/Fly-over States vote Republican is far from accurate.
Contemplate the significance of 45 percent of Georgia voters in October 2020 reporting that they’re doing better than four years ago.
Erika Smith, Los Angeles Times:
Column: Millions in California voted for Trump. This is deeper than white grievance politics
Biden, though predictably winning over most Americans of color, generally underperformed Hillary Clinton with those voters, according to some preliminary polling.
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It’s easy for me to understand how a white person living in a homogenous rural town could have such praise for Trump. Yet it’s harder to wrap my brain around it coming from a Black person living in Los Angeles.
Indeed, how is this even possible?
While I don’t know the answer, I do know that, we — both as a state and as a country — need to figure it out.
Biden in 2020, after four years of Trump as president, generally underperforms Hillary Clinton with voters of color. California, and the United States, need to figure out how it is possible for a Black – with a capital ‚B‘ – person living in Los Angeles to vote for Trump? This suggestion is made after the November 2020 election?
With another Florida loss, Democrats begin second guessing
Perhaps only in Florida is a loss by fewer than 4 percentages points considered a public drubbing.
In a state famous for razor-thin margins, the size of former Vice President Joe Biden’s loss to President Donald Trump was humiliating for Democrats and sent many searching for answers to how they failed to close the deal with voters — again.
Democrats zeroed in on two clear explanations: Biden didn’t connect with the state’s Latino voters, performing particularly poorly with Cuban voters in South Florida. They also second-guessed the party’s decision to freeze in-person organizing during the worst of the pandemic, a decision that set them back in reaching voters.
“Clearly, Biden was not able to capture the imagination of the Florida electorate and create the type of enthusiasm to go out and vote for Biden like Trump did with his base of supporters in the state,” said Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based Democratic pollster. “It’s an unacceptable record of futility. What makes it so vexing is that the problems that need to be fixed are so apparent. But they just don’t get fixed.”
Whose imagination did Biden capture? What does it say about someone when their imagination is captured by Joe Biden?
