<div dir="ltr">I think the rural vs urban split is one of the main factors. Rural people tend to be a lot more independent, less educated, and perhaps by a bit of an inferiority complex, more prone to denying science (think climate change and the Paris Accord). I also believe we Americans have a sense of entitlement, with part of the national mythos being that old expression "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" leading to belief that we have earned their special place in the world. Trump really plays that up. There is also certainly a mostly hidden undercurrent of racism (belief that black people generally are lazy - Google for "welfare queen") and cultural jingoism (belief that immigrants should assimilate and forget their home culture). And then there is distrust of the federal government and anything that might be considered socialist. I think we may ultimately discover that talk by the most liberal faction of the Democratic party may have scared a few centrists and invigorated the Republicans. There are other factors, but those are some of the strongest. Sad to say, but Trump may actually more accurately represent these values in us Americans.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:46 PM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Do you have an idea why so many people have voted for Trump despite all he has done? The cultural difference between the liberal urban centers and the conservative countryside can not be the only reason. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is it FoxNews propaganda, racism or another unknown factor ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> </div><div>Date: 11/5/20 21:08 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>> </div><div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] election eve </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto">A large percentage of the variance between "us" and "them" seems to be living in a city vs living in the country. Not all but a lot.<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 5, 2020, 12:59 PM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com" target="_blank">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
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than people elsewhere in the world. Trump releases the shame that might cause us to consider repairing the harm we have done or at least work harder to justify our special status. No, it is enough to join Team Trump and call those people names. My dog
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<p class="MsoNormal">NYT Nicholas Kristof ended his <a rel="noreferrer" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/donald-trump-election-2020.html" target="_blank">
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<p>Last count per NYT, there have been 68,644,941 votes (47.8%) this morning for Trump. So many voters, that apparently don't see {choose your favorite crisis} as a key issue either, it boggles my mind. What have those movements done wrong? If I didn't understand
how difficult it is to steal an election (detailed in another NYT oped today), I might even say there was something fishy.
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<p class="MsoNormal">One thing that confuses me is Trump being attributed 267 vs 268 EVs. But I suppose it could be Maine, with it's split representation:<br>
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> See Glen's 270 to 267 estimate. Biden may still win either Georgia or Pennsylvania or both because of the Democrat majority that is likely among the uncounted votes. If any of that happens Biden wins with a margin. <br>
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> Biden: 227, Trump: 213 with PA(20), NC(15), and GA(16) toward Trump and MI(16), WI(10), NV(6), and AZ(11) toward Biden.<br>
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> 227+16+10+11+6 = 270<br>
> 213+3+15+20+16 = 267<br>
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