Loser. Bigly.

Loser. Bigly.

by digby

I wrote earlier about his continuing insistence that he won, except where he didn't as if it makes sense.

Here's the most amazing cold water being thrown on that nonsense I've seen yet:

Trump got 63m votes, Romney 61m, McCain 60m. Dem votes for the House this year should be very close to that range.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 18, 2018

There's not any precedent for an opposition party coming this close to matching the president's vote total from 2 years earlier. The closest to an exception was when Democratic House candidates in 1970 got 92% of Nixon's vote total from 1968. pic.twitter.com/NOTLQnYI9z
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 18, 2018

Of course, this reflects 3 things we already knew: 1) Trump was elected despite losing the popular vote; 2) D's won by a big margin this year and 3) Turnout was VERY high.

But Trump is a very unpopular president, and I don't think that's totally sunk in yet in how he's covered.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 18, 2018

About 60 million people turned out to vote for Democrats for the House this year. That is a **crazy** number. (Republicans got 45m votes in the 2010 wave.)

And this was sort of missed. Why so many stories about Trump voters in truck stops and not so many about "the resistance"?
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 18, 2018

Why so few stories about The Resistance? Because it's a bunch of liberal and moderate men and women and people of color. They aren't Real Americans like all those Trump voters who say things like "the NFL stands for Ni**ers For Life. You know, the salt of the earth folks who really matter.

The truth is that the media has done a good job exposing Trump. I'm not criticizing them. But they have failed to tell the stories of people who are appalled by him. And it is a majority! Trump is not popular!

I'm sure it's mostly because of the years of conditioning to believe that "the heartland" which is mostly white rural Americans are a reflection of the majority. This is no longer true. And it wasn't fair to the people who were working their fingers to the bone to elect Democrats in the last cycle. Sadly, I doubt it will be any different this time. This goes back to the 60s when the Republicans discovered that they could hector the press into focusing on conservatives in order to prove they aren't biased. It was always a suckers game but never more than now.

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