Some observations

[Filuwaúrdjan]

1. The decision of the Obama era Democratic Party to embrace ethnic headcount politics was foolish to the point of negligence. Jaichind is not the most popular poster here and his politics are... um... bad... but he was right to highlight the possibility of what is described in Indian political jargon as 'consolidation' from the majority community in response.

2. The expected collapse of the Republican vote in affluent suburbia did not happen. At best there were some weak swings, but often not even that. It was not particularly clever to factor this into electoral strategy.

3. The collapse of the white Democratic vote (outside selected locations) was about as bad as it could have been and is just extraordinary to look at. This wasn't really a class thing - overall it skews heavily as a working class collapse because there were more working class votes to be lost this way - so much as an across-the-board meltdown. Really horrific stuff.

3b. I.e. check out the Midwestern Democratic farming vote (not working class). Oh wait you can't because it's gone as well.

4. Perhaps in retrospect running a candidate with a quarter of a century of negative publicity (built up to the level of absolute toxicity) and who was known to be under criminal investigation was not really a brilliant idea either.

4b. Which, of course, does not make the political intervention of the FBI late in the campaign anything other than deeply concerning for your democracy. Particularly as it clearly swung the election.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Note that Snowguy hails from rural Minnesota, one of the places that swung particularly viciously this election. Nearly cost Clinton what had been viewed as a safe state.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Those who remember Atlas of a decade ago will note with some amusement that, yes, here we are: jfern and WMS (hi!) singing from, if perhaps not the same hymn sheet, then at least from the same hymnbook. Thanks Obama!