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   by 31cde6b92951440 6y ago

   The way you describe it, it sounds like the meta-problem is endemic corruption or incompetence in the Illinois Democratic party. That's a common failure mode for a complacent government/party. The Baltimore and DC city governments
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   by 31cde6b92951440 6y ago

   rayiner implied Maryland is some kind of single-party Democratic hellscape, though I dispute his description of > Since 1969, we've had just two moderate Republican governors (who got elected to pump the breaks a bit on otherwise un
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   by 31cde6b92951440 6y ago

   (I'm replying to both rayiner and tptacek here.) I grew up in Maryland and have lived in Northern Virginia for many years so this conversation is a little weird to me. The big drama in NoVA state politics at the moment is that the Repu