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Re:Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes? by clumsysmurf on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:39PM (#13011438)
Sadly, at least for Trump, i think it came down to

1 party loyalty

2 identity politics

3 active voter suppression in key states

4 The Electoral College, which was designed to prevent this exact thing (demagoguery)

#1 & #2 are discussed in "Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691169446

#2 also discussed in "The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Chicago Studies in American Politics)" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022634911X

#3 and other dirty tricks discussed in "Ratfked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy" https://www.amazon.com/Ratf-ked-Behind-Americas-Democracy/dp...

and

"The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/110190576X

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Re:Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes? by TTPrograms on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:49PM (#13011467)
Yeah, it probably didn't have much to do with the economically left-behind working class that constitutes the majority of the country and wasn't appealed to at all by the Democratic campaign.
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Re:Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes? by clumsysmurf on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:02PM (#13011519)
Lets remember, at this point Hillary is 1.7 million popular votes ahead of Trump.
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Re:Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes? by tedunangst on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:19PM (#13011597)
None of those votes do anything to change the result in Pennsylvania, which until recently was part of a "Blue Firewall" that made a Trump victory impossible.
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Re:Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes? by TTPrograms on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:05PM (#13011536)
I don't think these are contradictory statements.
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Re:Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes? by EpicEng on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:08AM (#13011774)
If we didn't have an electoral college the numbers would be very different. Who would, obviously I don't now, but people understand the concept of the electoral college and candidates campaign accordingly.
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