Labour won the 1951 election on the popular vote - biggest proportion of voters for one party ever in any UK election - but we still got 13 years of the Tories.
Of course the US election system is biased but Clinton lost the mid West Rust Belt and that is why she lost the election. The counties that went for Obama last time and for Trump this time demonstrate pretty well that the New Democrats - much like New Labour
in character - lost formerly unionized deindustrialized areas and hence states. The devil is in the detail
David Byrne
Not sure how the thesis fits with the fact that Clinton actually won the popular vote; not to mention the antiquated vagaries of the electoral college system ...
From: To complement the journal 'Capital and Class' (ISSN 0 309 8786)
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Subject: FW: a very interesting piece in the current context
Hi All
See this by Nancy Fraser on the end of Liberal neo-liberalism. I thought it was really good and am passing it around.