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Realignment, it's funny as I was talking the other day about the old Rockefeller Liberal Republicans of the Northeast when the Northeast was Republican territory. The south solid Democrat. Now the Northeast and the south are reversed. The west coast used to be Republican, now are democratic. This was back in the time when conservative Republicans would say they believed in everything the Democrats were doing, only they wanted a little bit less.
Hillary Clinton's 51% of the union household vote was the lowest percentage ever received of union households going back to 1980 when union household was first added to the exit polls. Obama received 61% in 2008 and 60% in 2012. The highest percent for a Republican was Reagan receiving 45% of the union household vote in 1980 and 44% in 1984. G.H.W. Bush in 1992 received only 25%, Dole in 1996 31%. Perot and Bill Clinton divided the rest of the union household vote in 1992 and 1996. Gore in 2000 received 65% and Kerry in 2004 62%.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.
