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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I really thought that the GOP would lose more people in the middle as it lurched to the crazy right, but there are a lot of Republicans who have just recalibrated and stayed the course.
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I was thinking about this the other day. 10 years ago the PB had a dozen libs and maybe 3 or 4 hard core Rs. Then there was Penske whom I always assumed was just a dada performance thing.
Me? I was the only one who actually put thought into votes (besides sebby but you can’t categorize him); I mean was there anyone else here who voted for W twice and Obama twice?
The Rs included Slave. Last thing I saw from him was defending orange puke after the weird claims about his inauguration crowd, so at least early he hadn’t moved. But B&B was pretty hardcore R and she seems to have moved way away from that lot.
And until the Rs move to a decidedly different flavor, that is, non-insane place, I ain’t voting for them.
So if you extrapolate from our small sample they might have lost a lot of voters. It’s important to remember that facefuck won because Hillary was a flawed choice for a lot of reasons and there was a huge increase in 3rd party votes from people who didn’t like her.
As to state legislatures I just point to what Michigan did. In 2020 we passed an anti gerrymandering law by popular vote. Legislators have no control- a 9 person commission picks boundaries: 4 R 4 D and 1 independent. The next vote the Ds took both houses. The talking heads sold it as a reaction to Trump, but nope. It was a reaction to our taking back our state. I can’t believe other states don’t do that.
