Florida's always been fucked. This was simply a chance to unfuck it.
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US PoliERA 2018 |OT11| The Hunt for Blue November
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Florida's always been fucked. This was simply a chance to unfuck it.
After electing Scott and being full of racists it's not shocking.
Anyway dream senate state ideas that will never happen: merge the dakotas in to one, give the FL panhandle to AL, split Cali in to at least 3 states, give DC, PR and Guam statehood. Then pack the courts. Boom all 4 branches of the government solved
Colorado is a guaranteed pick up, it cancels out losing Alabama.
I learned QAnon was still a thing, and that it's gone so far off plot, the advocates have crossed over into a parallel universe.
Scott, like him or not, also isn't a complete moron. I can totally see DeSantis and a Trump fueled Florida house/senate turning us into an experiment the same way they did in Kansas. Scott would never actually try that.
Chris Smith is the only halfway decent Republican Rep I know but he's still worse than a blue dog DINO so
Some thoughts after the election:
- Florida is still very much a tossup state and a potential 2020 pick. People saying Dems should give up on it are delusional.
- Ohio swung hard to the right after 2012, but can come home again in time.
- Trump's re-election chances aren't looking great at this point in time - Florida went red by a fraction of a point and is not a given and the GOP got clobbered in MN/MI/WI/PA.
- Beto laid the groundwork for Texas to go further left in the following cycles - the new Beto voters won't just go away.
- The House Dems need to focus on legislation and less on Trump. Force him to veto bills that would make him look like an asshole.
- Florida is still very much a tossup state and a potential 2020 pick. People saying Dems should give up on it are delusional.
- Ohio swung hard to the right after 2012, but can come home again in time.
- Trump's re-election chances aren't looking great at this point in time - Florida went red by a fraction of a point and is not a given and the GOP got clobbered in MN/MI/WI/PA.
- Beto laid the groundwork for Texas to go further left in the following cycles - the new Beto voters won't just go away.
- The House Dems need to focus on legislation and less on Trump. Force him to veto bills that would make him look like an asshole.
They would be right
When we do something it needs to look necessary. Not like we were reaching for partisan reasons
I.e. let Mueller do the work.
He can't veto bills if they don't get past the Senate.
I do think we might finally see something done re: Dreamers.
Corker was replaced and Cornyn is safe, what about Grassley?
DeSantis ran a more explicitly racist campaign than Trump. The black candidate was literally called a monkey. Florida's racism is shocking even to me
Bernie or Busters are more blind on race than Bernie could ever hope to be
Grassley, and unfortunately the GOP did indeed win the Iowa gubernatorial race.
I mean, this year proves Trump does in fact bring out the people for wins. People love fascism.
No one young and with a bright future stays in Ohio (see: James, LeBron).
Tough luck for Jacob Wohl tumbling through a rift into *our* universe
I never want to see this guy's tweets again. Something about 2016 really made certain "progressives" lose their minds. It could also be that their patreon relies on them pandering to idiots.
Aaron Blake @AaronBlake
Trump is now calling out Republicans who didn't support him enough and lost.
To Mike Coffman: "Too bad, Mike."
Daniel Dale @ddale8
!!! Trump is mocking defeated Republicans who distanced themselves from him: "Mia Love gave me no love. And she lost. Too bad. Sorry about that, Mia."
Trump is now calling out Republicans who didn't support him enough and lost.
To Mike Coffman: "Too bad, Mike."
Daniel Dale @ddale8
!!! Trump is mocking defeated Republicans who distanced themselves from him: "Mia Love gave me no love. And she lost. Too bad. Sorry about that, Mia."
Genuinely wonder if NBC airing that racist ad to tens of millions 2 days before the election had an effect.
it's just reverse Connecticut with a different end result. Malloy left us clinging on the mansion in a wave where we gained everywhere else in every other office in the state.
Not much more to look into there.
I'm going to guess that all the left-leaning people are leaving OH, even the metro areas, to live in more thriving metro areas, especially nearby. Like, I am guessing that people moving from Cleveland or Cincinnati to Chicago or Minneapolis is common.
Without enough population in the metros to offset the rural folks who are basically Kentuckians, OH is quickly becoming more and more red.
I don't live in OH, this is just my guess based on migration maps for the U.S. that I've seen.
I mentioned it before. It's the Rust Belt areas in the northern half of the state. All Republican now. Brown wins there only because he plays to their protectionist tendencies.
This is also true. Columbus is growing by leaps and bounds but the rest of the state is bleeding out population badly.
Was inevitable and likely the case going forward for other states. Either they accept their dystopia or fight back.
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