I was going through past election maps. Why was WV still blue even in complete republicans landslide wins quite recently? Like 1980 and 1988 WV are the only state that went b blue in both. It stayed blue for both Clinton election in the 90s.
So like how did the bluest state in 1980-1999 become the biggest Trump state in the nation?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1320806076946747392
I really like them having a projected EC range for each candidate. Trump has to maximize his yield just to win.
In their projections, Dems are super unlikely to take all of these states (but overwhelmingly favored to take all others)
An analysis of dozens of pollsters showed an advantage of R+ 2.3 by CNBC Change Research on Feb 4-April 3. That was the last time Trump showed a potential advantage. Can’t imagine what changed during that time.
Unions held together the Democratic party in WV, union-busting and racism flipped that.
People need to stop worrying about this ( this is for who you replied too, not you ). The supreme court strikes down voter suppression, gerrymandering, the GOP isn’t getting a trifecta without completely changing their party.
Nuke gerrymandering and GOP winning the house is 10x more unlikely than the GOP winning the senate even with Puerto Rico and DC, Seems reasonable they could win both PR seats.
Each machine can do 12k ballots/hour and they have 22 machines.
So they can do 264k/hour total
It’s happened before. Brand new Pennsylvania Hall was burned down to stop the women’s convention abolitionist meeting.
Unions went tits up.
I’m conflicted. I want to give this 2 hearts because it fills me with hope and joy to see such positive energy at the polls, but at the same time it’s gross that voting is such a chore for so many. There should not be hours long lines that require entertainment to keep folks there. But fuck yea go Philly!!!
Holy shit. This poll dropped and my heart sank. I think Biden is finished.
I don’t know if this applies to WV but something similar has happened in several European countries.
Starting in the 80s the traditional working class (coal miner, construction worker, factory worker etc.) decreased as a portion of the overall workforce/electorate. This was taken by Social Democratic/Labour parties as a cue to try to appeal more to the middle class, office worker and similar employees. This attempt at broadening their base came at the cost of losing their loyal working class voters when the left parties were hard to distinguish from the conservatives from the working man’s perspective (austerity measures, raising the retirement age, freezing pensions).
Been varying my dog walk routes a bit, and found the MAGA house. They have a giant flag pole with American flag and Trump/Pence flag, a massive truck that had been heavily modified to be ‘cool’, tons of banners and political ads.
Pretty disheartened to see they had the school district guy I voted for. Granted, I know nothing about the area, but that guy was the one who had a functional professional website so I figured he had his shit together a little bit. Now i’m questioning that decision.
Everything else is fps imo. Let PR vote on statehood, but congress can make dc into 10 states at the stroke of a pen. F packing the court, pack the Senate.
No worky
Have you payed attention to the supreme court at all? They would immediately find DC statehood unconstitutional. They are an EXTREMELY partisan branch of government that will stop at nothing to secure right wing dominance.
You need to pack the court otherwise any attemps by democrats to do anything good with be struck down.
In America, the Republicans offfer them racism and guns and the Neoliberal Democrats tell them to go learn to code or something, so it’s not surprising they decide to go with the Republicans.
DC would be hard to flip even in a neutral court given Article 1.
The focus has to be voting rights. You make that solid, the rest comes.
Damn, that sucks
Not nearly enough capacity for a quick count
So did your pony
