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it's interesting that 46% of a state can vote blue, but the majority votes red every time. Texas isn't even close to purple; there's little moderating effect on
by sterlind 4y ago
it's interesting that 46% of a state can vote blue, but the majority votes red every time. Texas isn't even close to purple; there's little moderating effect on Republican politics in the state, unlike how Manchin's tugged to the right.
I'm sure there's arguments that this powerless 46% Democratic minority is balanced out by a 46% Republican minority in a reliably blue state, but still.. it seems messed up that voting works like this.
- Spooky23 4y agoIt’s called gerrymandering and machine politics. Congressional districts get a lot of attention, but state legislatures take this stuff to a whole other level. Strategically, the democratic focus on a few issues that alienate more traditional democrats strongly amplify that effect.
- chrisco255 4y agoAnd how do you feel about the republicans in California?
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
- JamesBarney 4y agoI'm a Democrat in Texas never had any problems voting.
- ceejayoz 4y ago
- rnk 4y agoTexas keeps making voting harder though, for the people out of power. Their nefarious plans to do things like only allow one place to drop off your ballots in each count will suppress ballot dropoff in Dallas & Houston - it's of course the reason for it, the republicans in charge want to reduce voting in liberal big cities. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/27/texas-voting-elections-mail-in-drop-off/ https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/27/texas-voting-electio...
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- sterlind 4y agonot great, either. I doubt the government of California cares about Republicans, any more than Texas cares about Democrats. I wish we could each live in separate countries where we get to decide law for ourselves, in line with our respective values, without oppressing the other side. maybe the Union will break up and we'll have our own countries like this, but we're too geographically intermingled - it'd take violent pogroms.
- Gibbon1 4y agoRepublicans can always leave for Texas.
- JamesBarney 4y agoYeah I was hoping for a more balanced electorate in Texas so the Republicans had to govern better to maintain control. But the Democrats swerve to the left has rolled back the gains we were making from the Latino demographic changes.
- Bud 4y ago
- gruez 4y agoYes there has https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/930/90/media-assets/image/20220716_FBC168.png https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/930/90/media-assets/imag... source: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/07/14/democrats-in-america-are-realising-they-must-moderate-or-die https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/07/14/democrats-in-a...
- ceejayoz 4y agoThat shows basically zero net change since 1970? And a consistent shift rightward for the Republicans? (Party manifesto and party actions are also frequently very different. Manchin ensured the Democrats accomplished little of theirs.)
- JamesBarney 4y agoIt shows very little change since the 70s but a huge change since the early 90s.
- ceejayoz 4y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/12/donald-trump-is-now-doing-worse-with-hispanic-voters-than-any-republican-since-1996/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/12/do... indicate Hispanic support for Democratic candidates fairly steady during that time period; check the second chart. The theory doesn't hold up to the actual charts.
- gruez 4y ago>it's interesting that 46% of a state can vote blue, but the majority votes red every time. Texas isn't even close to purple; there's little moderating effect on Republican politics in the state, unlike how Manchin's tugged to the right. That's easily explained by the fact that Texas is a "safe" republican state whereas west virginia is a swing state. From the wikipedia page on Manchin's last election in 2018: >Because of the heavy Republican lean of his state, Manchin was ranked by many outlets as one of the most vulnerable incumbents up for reelection.