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2016 Postmortem

LonePirate

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1. I guess NC voters compartmentalized HB2 when voting against Clinton and Ross but for Cooper.

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Tue Dec 6, 2016, 05:12 PM

Dec 2016

If someone was so motivated by anger over HB2, how could they not also vote for Clinton and Ross?

I simply don't understand that ticket splitting logic. Then again, there is so much about this past election which I do not understand.

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Identity politics actually won in North Carolina [View all] hrmjustin Dec 2016 OP

I guess NC voters compartmentalized HB2 when voting against Clinton and Ross but for Cooper. LonePirate Dec 2016 #1

I don't get ticket splitters either. hrmjustin Dec 2016 #3

Clinton lost by 180,000 votes here; Cooper won by 15,000 I think, so that's about a 200k delta. benEzra Dec 2016 #5

I don't have a link but ebbie15644 Dec 2016 #2

No doubt there was more then one issue. hrmjustin Dec 2016 #4

i don't think it was about gay rights itself as much as losing the sports games JI7 Dec 2016 #6

Exactly my first thought. Just the loss of revenue to the state in general is what probably did it, Grown2Hate Dec 2016 #7

methinks voter disenfranchisement won... triron Dec 2016 #8