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ancianita

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25. The idea of accepting should also be balanced by how big a block of America they are.

Sun Nov 15, 2020, 07:04 PM

Nov 2020

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They are

47.3% of the total vote (as of today, 155,872, 778)

34% of the total registered population (213,799,467 as of Nov 3 2020 https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/number-of-registered-voters-by-state)

30% of the total voting age population 2020, around 246,000,000 (2010 Census rounded up to 330 million minus 74 million minors and 10 million undocumented immigrants)

22% of America, overall.

That leaves close to 4/5 of America who don't accept them.
We need to accept our mandate to govern for that population even more, not be reactive to that 22%, and encourage that 22% to rethink their view of what America really is.

America is not them.

They are definitely not a big enough block of America to either define or presume that some guns and fussing give them some outsized power to tell the rest of America what America really is.

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We have to accept that there are huge blocs of voters that will never vote for Democrats [View all] Yavin4 Nov 2020 OP

There are huge blocs of voters who will never vote for Republicans Locutusofborg Nov 2020 #1

Exactly. Yavin4 Nov 2020 #5

Democratic Voters need to turn out in off year elections. pwb Nov 2020 #2

Precisely Sherman A1 Nov 2020 #4

That has been true forever Sherman A1 Nov 2020 #3

Hmmm Lotusflower70 Nov 2020 #6

How would we have won two senate seats in Arizona and maybe have the ability to win two Senate Demsrule86 Nov 2020 #9

New residents moved to GA and AZ. Yavin4 Nov 2020 #12

You are wrong...we need the new comers and to flip some who have lived there for a while. Demsrule86 Nov 2020 #19

Ok now Lotusflower70 Nov 2020 #23

THIS!! I was getting ready to post the same thing. Vivienne235729 Nov 2020 #36

I don't accept that and believe a 50 state strategy and a Democratic big tent is what is Demsrule86 Nov 2020 #7

The sooner we accept reality Dem4Life1102 Nov 2020 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Nov 2020 #8

Did senior citizens actually break for Biden? I know that the Rice4VP Nov 2020 #10

Offset by right wing latinos JI7 Nov 2020 #13

Nope. Trump won seniors. Yavin4 Nov 2020 #14

SMH. So even they lied to pollsters Rice4VP Nov 2020 #15

Not quite true. Demsrule86 Nov 2020 #21

We cannot convert them. We must outnumber them at the polls. Earthshine2 Nov 2020 #11

I think many folks underestimate the power that evangelical churches have over their congregations Docreed2003 Nov 2020 #16

Yes. It's very simple. Everyone likes... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #17

As countless commentators have said this November, and in empedocles Nov 2020 #18

Agreed for the most part. I would argue this... Caliman73 Nov 2020 #20

BBBt Buuuttt But they might call us Socialists!!!! n/t rgbecker Nov 2020 #22

Not a waste of time. We could have won the Senate and did not. Sneederbunk Nov 2020 #24

We can still win the Senate. marmar Nov 2020 #34

The idea of accepting should also be balanced by how big a block of America they are. ancianita Nov 2020 #25

Almost a third of voters didn't vote, again. Blue_true Nov 2020 #30

And 13% of the whole adult population of un- and registereds. That's a lot more than it looks. ancianita Nov 2020 #32

One thing that burns me: some of those blocs are union members, .., JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2020 #27

Some receive Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, too. ancianita Nov 2020 #28

Union members started voting more republican when democrats started Blue_true Nov 2020 #31

Black/white arguments are common on the internet Dem2 Nov 2020 #29

73 million Americans believe Donald Trump is presidential material dalton99a Nov 2020 #33

Yip 1) those never-vote for Dems, but also 2) OUR constituents who don't vote. And yes, UTUSN Nov 2020 #35