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Your comment ties directly to the Democrat election strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClytGvP_Qe4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClytGvP_Qe4 "For eve

Your comment ties directly to the Democrat election strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClytGvP_Qe4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClytGvP_Qe4 "For every blue collar democrat we will lose in Western PA, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia." ~Chuck Schumer

hockeybias 9y ago
and there was obviously room for those Western PAers in Trump's "deplorables basket".
Akujin 9y ago
Philadelphia is quickly gentrifying and this has caused massive lines in voting districts in the recently gentrified neighborhoods. Where voting lines used to be 15 minutes long they are now 2+ hours. We've been trying to get them to split the voting district into two here in Northern Liberties for a while but apparently it's falling on deaf ears. These are by the way "well-to-do" young professionals so it's in the interest of both Republicans and Democrats to fix this. Meanwhile 10 minutes away at Temple University you have 2 hour lines at polling close. If the dems want to win PA they need to get their voting district shit together in the city. It would not have made much off a difference. The spread in the entire state was about 90k but when I saw the lines at the universities it made me wonder about the entire state. I used to live in the suburbs of Philadelphia in a new "rich" neighborhood and the lines there are usually 15-30 minutes. Granted the population there doesn't fluctuate much.
- Qworg 9y ago
  This is the most common form of voter suppression in the US and we're doing absolutely nothing about it.
sirkneeland 9y ago
As someone who is literally that background (from a moderate Republican family in the suburbs of Philadelphia) I can say the Democrats definitely picked up my vote... Actually no, it's more accurate to say the Republicans lost it. (I don't know how my family members voted--we're far too WASPy to do anything but keep it private), but I suspect my parents stayed with the GOP while my siblings and I went to the Dems (I voted Hillary for President and GOP everything else. Turned out to be a miscalculation) At any rate, it seems there weren't enough of us to outweigh Pennsylvanians who continued to vote Republican or who converted to voting Republican.
r00fus 9y ago
s/Democrat/Democratic/ If you choose to ignore proper naming, you're just exposing your bias.
- Consultant32452 9y ago
  What bias, exactly, do you think I'm exposing?

hockeybias 9y ago

and there was obviously room for those Western PAers in Trump's "deplorables basket".

Akujin 9y ago

Philadelphia is quickly gentrifying and this has caused massive lines in voting districts in the recently gentrified neighborhoods. Where voting lines used to be 15 minutes long they are now 2+ hours. We've been trying to get them to split the voting district into two here in Northern Liberties for a while but apparently it's falling on deaf ears. These are by the way "well-to-do" young professionals so it's in the interest of both Republicans and Democrats to fix this. Meanwhile 10 minutes away at Temple University you have 2 hour lines at polling close. If the dems want to win PA they need to get their voting district shit together in the city. It would not have made much off a difference. The spread in the entire state was about 90k but when I saw the lines at the universities it made me wonder about the entire state. I used to live in the suburbs of Philadelphia in a new "rich" neighborhood and the lines there are usually 15-30 minutes. Granted the population there doesn't fluctuate much.

Qworg 9y ago
This is the most common form of voter suppression in the US and we're doing absolutely nothing about it.

sirkneeland 9y ago

As someone who is literally that background (from a moderate Republican family in the suburbs of Philadelphia) I can say the Democrats definitely picked up my vote... Actually no, it's more accurate to say the Republicans lost it. (I don't know how my family members voted--we're far too WASPy to do anything but keep it private), but I suspect my parents stayed with the GOP while my siblings and I went to the Dems (I voted Hillary for President and GOP everything else. Turned out to be a miscalculation) At any rate, it seems there weren't enough of us to outweigh Pennsylvanians who continued to vote Republican or who converted to voting Republican.

r00fus 9y ago

s/Democrat/Democratic/ If you choose to ignore proper naming, you're just exposing your bias.

Consultant32452 9y ago
What bias, exactly, do you think I'm exposing?