Democrats being just a big city party for some groups but not others has already failed.

[Awsi Dooger]

34. Sorry, you posted a significant factual error

"As much as you want the party to abandon the majority of the population to cater to the demands of the $100k plus a year crowd--because those are the voters Clinton lost."

I have no idea how you can cite exit polls and then post something blatantly wrong in the text. Hillary 2016 fared much better than Obama 2012 did among voters making $100k and up. She split that block 47-47 while Obama lost by 10 full points to Romney, 54-44.

Trump fared terribly in most exit poll categories except among people who prioritized change. He dominated that category and it basically decided the election. Even though Obama's approval rating perked up toward election day it did nothing to impact the impression that the country was on the wrong track. That was 62-33 in the exit poll. That category had been identified all year as ominous for Hillary. Among the 62% who said the country was headed in the wrong direction, Trump prevailed 68-26.

Every time white men are downplayed as a source of Trump's victory I have a difficult time taking the post seriously. It is desperation, not truth. White men have been declining as percentage of the electorate but not from 2012 to 2016. They turned out for Trump in sufficient numbers to maintain the white male vote as 34% in 2016 along with 2012. Those white males went for Trump by a net of 31% compared to 27% net for Romney four years earlier.