The Hill reports that our obsession with all things Trump is far from globally unique:
The questions about Trump are "almost all-consuming," said Richard Mintz, the managing director of Washington-based firm The Harbour Group, whose client list includes the governments of Georgia and the United Arab Emirates.
After a recent trip to London, Abu Dhabi and Beijing, "it’s fair to say that all anyone wants to talk about is the U.S. presidential election," Mintz added. "People are confused and perplexed."
In The Hill piece there's also this beaut of an understatement: "Multiple … lobbyists said they have had trouble framing the implications of a Trump presidency for their overseas clients."
I'd recommend to these lobbyists that they play around with an interactive Electoral map, and then simply show the results to their clients. Playing around is what I was doing moments ago, and this was my best-guess, and rather liberally Trumpist, scenario:
In plain words, not to worry. The lobbyists need not trouble themselves with conceiving "the implications of a Trump presidency," since the impossibility of the second rules out the first.
You got Missouri and Arkansas going Blue?!
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well, yeah, that's possible, but if those states are going to flip like that you should include Kansas, considering how unpopular the GOP is at state-level.
Posted by: PaulW | March 30, 2016 at 02:07 PM