Yeah I’m surprised there hasn’t been more discussion here of this. The GOP has gerrymandered majorities in the state legislatures in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. They also hold the state houses in Arizona and Georgia. In the next year I expect them all to pass resolutions that the electoral votes are decided by a vote of the state house. Democrats will sue and SCOTUS will rule in favor of the GOP either 5-4 or 6-3.
This will lock in Republican presidential rule indefinitely, as they can do that in every red state about to turn blue and use the gerrymander to rule from the minority for a long time.
The only limit on their power will be pushing things so far that their own base realizes how fucked up this country is, and that’s not going to happen anytime soon obviously.
Unfortunately the Democrats have no real recourse on this one but to spend a shit load of money on those state legislature races to try to beat the gerrymander.
This dynamic will also bring increased chatter about secession from blue states.
Thanks for sharing (and I only read the Cook one so far.) #26 in that article—without the gerrymandering lawsuits over the last four years (FL, VA, PA, NC), all else being equal, the Republicans take the House.
Sure didn’t blindside anyone on this forum who watched Biden tell an immigration activist to vote for Trump, instead of actually addressing issues. Sure didn’t blindside anyone who was paying attention to Biden’s “outreach” campaign of hiring Ana Navarro instead of Chuck Rocha
Not really. They both tend to be located in the suburbs, but they are usually very different types of suburbs. Whole Foods tend to be in affluent, upper middle class 'burbs, while Cracker Barrels are more in the lower middle class areas.
There really aren’t any national chains with much of a presence in true rural areas, except maybe Dairy Queen for reasons I’ve never understood.