Posted on 05/11/2018 6:30:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump hasn't just rewritten the political rule book; he has also redrawn the political map. While plenty like to complain about how the polls got the 2016 election wrong, they got it wrong in only one region of the country: along the Rust Belt and into the Upper Midwest. And that's where Trump pulled out his narrow victory.
We and plenty of others have been somewhat consumed with how that shift came about and whether it represents a fundamental realignment in American politics. But I still don't think people realize how big a shift it was or where exactly it occurred.
Luckily, a new map put together by The Washington Post's graphics team shows it better than just about anything we've seen to date.
Inside Dan Balz's big, must-read piece on the Midwest's relationship with Trump is a map that shows the last time each Trump county voted Republican in a presidential race. As you'll see, there is a massive cluster of counties around the upper Mississippi River that hadn't gone Republican since the 1990s or even the 1980s. Across the rest of the country, such counties are very few and far between....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
WOWSER!
Trump is a flawed human being. Every American President has been flawed, but for many the media has hidden the flaws. For Trump the media highlights and trumpets the flaws.
Results matter. The Democrat Party of Poor Results focuses on image and feelings and has produced Detroit, Cleveland and Baltimore.
Trump is doing what good businessmen do: He is getting things done and delivering on the promises he sold to us. The Democrats have no response to actual achievements. That's why they are so desperate to stop him. They fear a blowout in 2020. They equally fear having to oppose him should they reclaim Congress in 2018.
Yes, interesting map.
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