The Error Of Mis-Aggregation

Hillary is back! Reminding us of how it is possible to lose the presidential race to a man like Trump:

"I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product... So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, 'Make America Great Again,' was looking backwards. You know: 'You didn't like black people getting rights, you don't like women, you know, getting jobs, you don't want to, you know, see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are, whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it.'

There is a hidden error in Her-Self's claim: She is laying claim to the whole GDP of the states she won, but she didn't win every single vote in the states she won, nor lost every vote in the states she lost. Take the deep blue state of Connecticut: Hillary won 55% of the vote to Trump's 41%. Her votes come mostly from public employees, minorities and a good slice of the very wealthy. Trump wins with everyone else. Not sure where to find the data, but I would bet that the taxes paid by Trump's 41% exceed what was paid by Hillary's 55%.

Similarly, a reoccurring complaint by the left, is that the Red states take in more in Federal benefits than they pay in taxes. Again, who is getting these Federal Dollars? A lot of it is that there are military bases, or big Federally funded agencies in red states. But the larger and certainly the intended impression, is that all these Republicans are on welfare or food stamps but vote for the people trying to gut these programs. Again, look at vote totals: Take Alabama: Hillary 34%, Trump 62%. Who can doubt that most of Hillary's votes in Alabama came from poor people and minorities? Heavy users of welfare.