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blue-wave

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6. You are spot on!!!
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 01:54 AM
Mar 2020

Joe MUST win more rural and blue collar voters than did Hillary to win against Trump. If you look at the map of Michigan by county in the link below, it shows that Joe has kept Bernie to the 30% range in every county in the upper peninsula (that's the upper left portion of Michigan on the map known as the U.P.) with the exception of Marquette County ( the UP's most populous and home of Northern Michigan University) and Houghton County, another populated area. And in those two counties, Bernie was in the low 40% range. The Upper Peninsula is very rural.

If I remember correctly, Hillary only won one county in the UP, Marquette, against Trump. Obama had a larger vote out of the UP and won a few more counties in the general elections than Hillary.

So yes, Joe is attracting a wider swath of the electorate. He will carry the day in November for not just his White House bid, but for Congress! We need a Democratic Congress to move our country forward and correct all the mistakes and foibles of the last four years. Widening the Democratic voter base will do that, we just need to ensure they come out to vote.

And oh. One more thing! It appears as though Joe will carry every county in all of the "M's". Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi!!!! Woo Hoo!


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/10/us/elections/results-michigan-president-democrat-primary-election.html

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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