Some of them might even have been thinking it's the economy, stupid

click through on this one below, to the graph about how "the year no one made money", that's 2018, and he's talking about  investments, the investor class, for whom 2017 was fine but 2018 was basically zilch:

shit finally hit the fan on the MAGA isolationism, enough of entertaining the fervid dreams of the Pal Buchanan wing of the party? Back to Clintonomics, cause: they work.

Mia Love: Trump has 'no real relationships, just convenient transactions'

By Rebecca Morin @ Politico.com, Nov. 26

Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) on Monday said President Donald Trump has "no real relationships, just convenient transactions," after the leader of her political party bashed her for not embracing him ahead of this month's midterm elections.

Love, who won her seat in 2014, on Saturday conceded to Democrat Ben McAdams after a close race for Utah's 4th congressional district seat. Love, who was the first black Republican woman elected to Congress, said Monday in her first press conference since losing re-election that her party struggled to appeal to minority voters in 2018 [....]

The Suburbs Are Changing. But Not in All the Ways Liberals Hope.

• Rural areas are now reliably Republican, urban areas overwhelmingly Democratic.
• The suburbs are lodged in between, with many economically conservative but socially liberal voters who have a foot in each party — or for whom neither party is a perfect fit.

By Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui and Josh Katz @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 26, 2018

Orange County, Calif., long a bedrock of the Republican Party, won’t send a single Republican to Congress in January for the first time since 1940.

The party lost four seats there in the midterms, mirroring Republican losses just outside Minneapolis, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, New York and Washington, D.C. The election was a suburban rout, lifting Democratic hopes for a durable realignment in the parts of suburbia that are highly educated and increasingly diverse.

But further down the ballot in Orange County, voters also considered several propositions meant to ease the state’s housing crisis. Orange County voters opposed a bond to fund housing assistance programs, which passed statewide. And they rejected a rent-control measure by a wider margin than the rest of the state (the measure failed).

Newly Democratic Orange County is not exactly on its way to becoming liberal San Francisco.

“There is this idea that if all these suburban areas are blue, that will mean they’re automatically more progressive,” said Lily Geismer, a historian at Claremont McKenna College in California. That’s an indication of something more progressive, she said, but underneath are “still commitments to a lot of kinds of inequality.” [.....]

also see NYTimes' separate local reporting:

A northern suburb of New York City has stood resolute as the last Republican stronghold in downstate New York. 1h ago Putnam County, which includes Cold Spring, N.Y., seems like a curious outlier, a land that Democrats forgot along the Metro-North line. which does interestingly compare some issues

from Former State Representative, County Councilman, and GOP State Chairman, now Co-Chair of WA Independents