Comment: As I stated in my other post, Democrats abandoned the rural and blue-collar vote after the 1968 convention and now it is hurting them in close elections. They just need to either do a better job of getting their unpredictable base out to vote or expand the vision of their party to include all Americans and yes, even their so-called "fat, stupid, religious, misogynistic, racists" that live outside of major metropolitan areas. BTW, I have voted straight D since 1980, and I very reluctantly (and now regretfully--what a bunch of self-deluded sore losers) voted for Clinton. Attempting to eliminate the Electoral College is just another loser strategy: "I can't win so I need to change the rules." Nope. The people who founded the United States of America were a lot smarter than every single one of it's present-day citizens, and we don't need to screw with what they created.