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Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by rdtsc on Saturday January 28, 2017 @08:31PM (#13511101)
That's the interesting thing, maybe Trump won because he was a smooth talker but why did the Democrats lose all those seats in the legislature? Does it just mean Dems never even voted? I guess why bother putting the shoes on when CNN and NBC have been showing a solid blue map for months on end and experts discussing grabbing of genital parts for days and days.

In all the discussions I heard so far on Facebook and media I noticed a lot blame, name-calling, despair and so on. But I haven't seen enough solid self-reflections. Specifically focusing on why did the Democrats stay home that day. Without it we will have another Trump and then another ...

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Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by Eridrus on Sunday January 29, 2017 @01:25PM (#13515712)
The rational thing to do for any single voter is to not bother voting; and the US doesn't make it easy for people to vote, especially with election day not being a weekend or a public holiday and requiring most of the day.

In the US the "blue map" does really matter except psychologically since everyone votes in a specific state, but the predictions from the media probably didn't help.

Hopefully Trump will drive democratic midterm voter turn out.

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