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Blue collar election shocks liberal media By Cliff Kincaid

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--- Quote ---November 18, 2016
Blue collar election shocks liberal media
 
By Cliff Kincaid

Before Election Day, the liberal media were speculating about the demise of the Republican Party. However, the media misjudged the electorate before November 8 and they are misjudging it again. It's the Democratic Party that faces an uncertain future.

In an MSNBC broadcast before Election Day, MTV's Ana Marie Cox said the results might just mean that the GOP would "cease to be a national party" because the demographic trends were in favor of Democrats, and the Democrats had "reclaimed the mantle of patriotism" and "reclaimed the mantle of faith."

Host Lawrence O'Donnell agreed, asking, "Are you looking for in tomorrow night's results ...the beginning of the discussion within the Republican Party about how to rebuild itself into something resembling a coherent party?" Former Jeb Bush communications director and "political strategist" Tim Miller said, "I have a lot of pessimism about where the party goes."

After the results came in, left-wing journalist John Nichols became despondent, writing in his most recent column that "The Democratic Party had not lost a presidential race in Wisconsin since 1984. But it did in 2016. The Democratic Party had not lost a Wisconsin U.S. Senate race in a presidential election year since 1980. But it did in 2016."

But it gets worse. "The Democratic Party has been decimated in the state Legislature," he writes from Wisconsin, "with a Senate caucus that looks likely to have 13 seats (the smallest total since Richard Nixon was president) and an Assembly caucus with 35 members (the smallest total since Dwight Eisenhower was president)."

Read More At: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/161118
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geronl:
Only a complete moron thinks Trump is a rural blue-collar guy.

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