Well thatās not too oversimplified.
[note sarcasm]
Trump certainly wants you to believe heās turning out the ādonāt votesā of the world. In fact, thatās his whole case for electability in the general: Hillaryās (or Bernieās) platoons of effete coastal elites will be swamped by an unprecedented wave of disaffected voters. Heās actually used Nixonās phrase about the āsilent majority,ā in this case people so silent they never vote.
Since half the electorate doesnāt show up in most presidential years, itās not statistically impossible. But neither is there any evidence that itās actually happening.
Iām suspicious that the kerning on āClintonā was intentional.
Iād really like to see a libertarian candidate on that chart. Iām not sure where they would fit in but votes would be taken from all of the currently listed candidates.
Great news, X-ers! According to Rob, weāre still young people!!!11!!!1!1
(Or he completely forgot us. Same as it ever was.)
Huh, āex-patriotā? Did Rob mean āexpatriateā?
More to the point, I think this chart isnāt adding enough to the confusion. Then again, Iām a Discordianā¦
I suppose, if youāve skedaddled to live with the Cousins, itās possible to be both.
Robās just continuing the bOINGbOING tradition of advertising the worst candidates the most. Thereāll be no Greens at all, and rarely any Libertarians.
Just lie back and think of England.
ah the slide explaining how ageing hipsters are pretending to be young.
Shouldnāt the color ramp go the other way?
And no LibTards at all!
As Robās tag on the article suggests, you are supposed to think about the colors. Red has a far longer association with socialism and Labour than it has with its association with the Republicans.
I was thinking more about the seething hatred part than the republican part.
Thatās about right. What surprises me is that Trump appeals to two different class of voter.
Such a relief.
Here Iād been thinking that American presidential politics was weirdly complex and complicated, when it turns out that it can all be reduced to a simple one-dimensional axis of generational-ageist bullshit.
Good to know.
expatriate?
you misspelled boners in your otherwise brilliant opening sentence to your porn novel.
Easy.
Itās bothering me that Sandersā color is red and Trumpās is blue. The spectrum ought to go the other way!
