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Dan Balz of the Washington Post recently spoke at the Harvard Kennedy School and went over some basic numbers about the electorate. None of it was good news for Democrats.
Balz outlined how Trump managed to almost flip the two parties in terms of how they appeal to voters. He pointed out that Trump had won certain groups that haven’t gone to Republicans in years.
He also noted that Democrats have not even begun to figure out what they are going to do about it. People in attendance were obviously taking all of this very seriously. You could hear a pin drop.
Partial transcript via RedState:
Donald Trump has won 25 states in the past three elections.
In those 25 states, the Republicans have 22 governors, 24 state legislatures, and all 50 senators.
The Democrats have a problem winning in enough places to be able to really be a majority party, and particularly to have consistent hopes of winning the Senate.
Two other things, we know that the college/non-college split in the country is, in many ways, the basic fault line now.
About 40 percent, maybe slightly less of the voting-age population has college degrees. Kamala Harris got about 55 or 56 percent of that vote….
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