Republicans and their allies seem determined to try to blame their electoral woes on anything other than their own poor messaging, their failure to listen to Main Street voters (a fact that Donald Trump capitalized on) and their woefully deficient nomination process (which has now produced Trump as the party’s nominee). At the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza writes that America has “an electoral map in which the Democratic nominee begins at a significant advantage over the Republican one.” This is a somewhat convenient line of argument for Republicans to make—as it encourages them to throw up their hands rather than roll up their sleeves—but it’s false.
Cillizza (in a piece entitled, “Republicans Have a Massive Electoral Map Problem That Has Nothing to Do with Donald Trump”) writes,
