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Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Sebby, curious what you think of your governor; press seems to indicate he's pretty widely popular.
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He's a very popular moderate. I voted for him and like him so far. People in both parties like him as he tends to be transactional and pragmatic.
But I'm not sure how much he moves the dial here. Harris is a CA senator who's considered (on the East Coast/Mid-Atlantic at least) as a lightweight, and by a significant percentage of people, not exactly competent. Shapiro would gain some votes here, but I think he'd only be making up for those old people and moderate Rs in the collar counties who voted for Biden but will not vote for Harris.
Joe was an easy sell here because everybody knows someone like him and he spent his career commuting back and forth between DC and Wilmington, just below the border. Harris has a very different background, and I don't just mean her race and sex.
She's probably going to run into the same thing that's going to cost McCormick, an ex-fund manager at Bridgewater (Ray Dalio's outfit), his election (he's running against Casey for Senate). Both the city and rural folk here do not trust perceived "elites" of any kind.* They want home grown stuff, like Shapiro. Blue dogs are adored here. Progressives and "Wall St. fat cats" are electoral poison.
She also can't run on abortion, and talking about green energy is doom. The sole issues in the state are inflation and growth, and fracking to sell natural gas to other countries is seen as one of the biggest growth areas that needs to be expanded. Joe did himself few favors in the state with that dumb ban on terminals for further sale of LNG abroad.
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* I hate the word, as the people who think they're elites are usually what Taleb calls "intellectuals yet idiots" and those who brand others as elites are just plain old idiots. But it's in the political vernacular now, so I'm using it.
