By clustering in cities, even small ones, they have weakened their political impact.
In 2016, Hilary Clinton needed about 5 percent, and that she would get that and become president. She ended up with 2.1 percent, and it wasn’t enough.
Clustering of Democrats has only gotten worse since then, guaranteeing over-sized wins in cities, and overall defeat resulting from losses everywhere else. Rural bias got Trump elected and could do so again, even if he loses the popular vote again.
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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