Our esteemed host posted a diary Monday that might be the most wrong headed thing I’ve ever seen on this site.
If you missed it, go read it now. I’ll wait right here.
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Let’s play with some numbers.
There are 328,863,150 people in the US of which 22.6% are under 18 years of age. That’s 74,323,072 under 18 and therefore nonvoters. Let’s call that 254,540,078 voting-eligible people.
The 2018 turnout was 47% of the voting-eligible population. That would be about 119,633,837 voters.
Assuming white voters reflect their percentage of the population (73.3%) and half of white voters are male, and 39% of white men voted for Clinton, that would be, roughly speaking, 46,657,196/2 = 23,328,598 * .733 = 17,099,862.
Now kos got his number of 39% from CNN, but according to the Guardian that number should be 31%.
- White men opted 63% for Trump and 31% for Clinton; white women voted 53% for Trump and 43% for Clinton.
I threw that in there just to illustrate that all such numbers are only rough approximations.
Now if kos discourages any significant percentage of that large a voting block (17,000,000) to abandon the Democratic Party, where will he find that many replacement voters?
Please allow me to suggest an alternative approach. I would think there just might be more persuadables (not deplorables) among white males than any other demographic. Perhaps we shouldn’t be trying to drive them away. Perhaps he shouldn’t try so hard to offend that many voters.
Meanwhile, white men are whining about not being laid and shooting shit up. Yes, yes, not ALL white men. Definitely not anyone reading this site. Interesting to be on the receiving end of that sort of generalization, huh, white guys?
I don’t why kos does such things. I’m inclined to think he has no idea how much damage he does.
Perhaps it’s all just clickbait.
P.S.
Assholes: Michael Avenatti (still!)
The Embattled Michael Avenatti Will Not Run For President