People, Personas, and Politics 18 – Next Election, Again
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/06
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Rick Rosner: To go back to the next election, democrats, to beat whomever is president at the time – though that is contrary to everyone who hates Trump’s wishful thinking, you need somebody – a candidate – wit charisma. That’s the lever that was largely missing in this election. This was, 2016 was, one of the least charismatic elections in recent history. Where you had the two least popular candidates going against in each in American history.
Trump has a sloppy charisma when it comes to winning the votes of older white people, but it is a shaky charisma because it is super creepy and somebody like a Cory Booker on the other side – who might have a less creepy charisma – could leverage that into a democratic victory. And a democratic victory is a demographic victory. In that, more people vote for democratic candidates than vote for Republicans, but because of gerrymandering and the electoral college.
Republicans are overrepresented. There’s also the chance that the democrats will star getting their crap together when addressing demographic manipulation. Democrats get their asses kicked in 2010 with red map, when the Republicans figured out if they could manipulate congressional districts they could win the House of Representatives even though fewer people vote by manipulating the shape of congressional districts to concentrate democrats in their districts and spread Republicans out across a bunch of districts so more Republican congress people get elected.
For 20 years, people have said sheer democrats are going to strangle the Republicans. That the Republican Party is a dying party because there are more and more people who vote democratic due to demographic trends, but the Republicans managed to survive and win due to increasingly sophisticated means of manipulating the electoral process.
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