These numbers really shouldn't be all that surprising. Just more data to support the idea Obie was a great fit for Wall Street, Hipster enclaves in Brooklyn, and San Francisco, etc. and the "ascendant coalition" of "moderates" (pro-SSM pothead bankster-lovers) in places like Colorado. All Hillary had were "bitter clingers" who may have been "closed-minded" on "cultural" "issues" but maybe didn't want banksters getting continued trillions in bailout money.
Do you honestly think that Hillary isn't beholden to Wall Street? That's pretty pathetic delusion.
Ummm, no. But Obama is certainly no less beholden. His base in the primaries cloaked their "merit"ocratic elitism in "cultural" "open-mindedness," so they certainly wouldn't raise hell over unprecedented upward wealth transfers via QE/ZIRP/etc.
People would've been on guard for such upward redistribution with people like Hillary, and the base she crafted during the
nomination coronation wouldn't have stood for it. Obie's base enjoys these upward wealth redistributions, just like they approve of the peace drones and humanitarian spying, but they have to justify "progress" as dudes marrying each other and smoking commercialized pot. Sure, they're
talking about inequality, but what did they
do about it when they had super-majorities in both chambers? And forcing people to buy junk private insurance isn't what i'd call progress, though my metrics of per capita spending and life expectancy relative to other countries may be a little "bitter" or "clingy." Of course, Obie and a super-majority Dembot congress couldn't pass single payer because only like 2 out of 3 Americans support it or because it would save $300bn per year. ... or according to Dembot email spam, because Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, or the Koch brothers...
