"dominance"
What is dominating about a Republican or Democrat winning an office by 2 or 3% points over the other? Yet we have a winner take all mentality - we desperately need a system that allows for compromise between two opposing views.
Our country is closely divided on many issues & elections.... yet there seems to be little room for solutions that meet somewhere in the middle with respect for different points of view.
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Democrats need to speak in short recognizable words. If the don't they will continue to be considered the elite even though the elite are mostly Republicans.
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Don’t forget, many of us held our noses voting the Democrat in. Illinois and Chicago have been financially mismanaged for decades by Democrats, now we were forced to choose the lesser of two evils.
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This election was all about women asserting their voices as women. The next one they will re-focus on issues.
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You would have to figure that Trump's transparent phoniness would eventually fail among Midwestern moderates. I think that is what happened, along with his crazy trade war with China that is punishing Midwestern farm communities. The misogyny and racism punctured his support among educated white women as it did everywhere and then the same movement of an inspired but still small youth vote and the continued alienation of minorities probably made it possible for Kansas to elect a Democratic governor. It almost cost Cruz his seat in Texas and defeated conservative Republicans across the Midwest and the country in general. The next act in American contemporary history is the coming real constitutional crisis that will undoubtedly involve Donald Trump's impeachment. Hard to see Trump's Midwestern base holding or in other parts of the country too. Whatever happens though, it will be ugly in the Midwest and everywhere else.
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2018 US Midterm Senate vote:
Democratic Senate Candidates: 46,400,172 votes (57.0%) - Result... lost two seats
Republican Senate Candidates: 33,724,787 votes (41.4%) - Result... gained two seats
The American people are telling politicans what they want. Republican politicians just don't want to hear it.
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As a rural Missourian, I was depressed by the overwhelming defeat of Senator Claire McCaskill. I knew it was going to be bad when two older women came into the firehouse (where I was voting) and loudly said to peers, "Did you go to hear our President last night? Wasn't he wonderful?" They could have been talking about a TV star--and maybe that's what they were doing. For the vast majority of rural Missourians, their news comes directly from FOX, and of course the folie-au-deux relationship between Trump and the right-wing station is obvious to anyone who pays attention. Even people about to lose their jobs due to Trump's trade wars give the President high marks for "being tough". It is only when they lose their jobs are gone or their Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are reduced that they will truly realize what they have elected.
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@Susan
I was also sadened by Senator McCaskill's loss. She was a brave woman. Here in New York City we have long been aware of Trump's failings. In time, people elsewhere in the USA will stop treating him as a tv star and see him more clearly. Keep hopeful.
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Thoughts and prayers, for the progressives in the Heartland.
And votes.
Our democracy - needs- engagement with the heartland.
We all need education, health care, infrastructure repair. And all the rest.
Fair taxes, and reducing/moderating military expenditures - is only path forward.
Let other countries, finance their own security. Keep our sons and daughters home - and out of harms way, engaging in other countries wars/ issues.
Let’s spend our tax dollars - and comprised of fair taxation on all residents/ citizens - on the very essential needs of our people for health care, taxes, infrastructure, sustainable economic paradigms and all the rest.
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Its good to see Michigan quickly return to her progressive roots after only two years under dictator Trumps rein. People have come to realize Trump ISNT “draining the swamp” rather he and his fellow republican conmen are enriching themselves THRU the swamp as they leave the middle class without health insurance or hope. The amount of republican re-election lies was beyond disgusting and 4 republicans did get re-elected even though they face felony financial crimes that screwed their own constituents, which proves Trumps con continues to thrive. Astonishingly.
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@Richard conrad As a Michigander, I wholeheartedly agree. Six years ago, my district (MI-11) elected the Tea Party-endorsed far-right conservative Kerry Bentivolio, who made a (short-lived) congressional career out of calling for President Obama’s impeachment. How wonderful then it was to watch Haley Stevens, Obama’s chief of staff for the auto industry rescue, flip that red seat blue.
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Democrats need to take a page from Beto's playbook and get their butts out into the rural areas so Steve King is never elected again to Congress.
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Don't forget: Sherrod Brown easily won re-election to the Senate in Ohio. Maybe the Times should run a big article exploring how & why?
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There are signs of growth and of rebounding, but not everywhere. Nebraska is getting redder and redder, despite the strong efforts by great candidates and groups like Suit Up! Nebraska. Having just moved out of Nebraska, back to my home Southern state, after living in Nebraska for 4 years and being very active in organizing and activism there, my impression is that the red is spreading for two reasons.
First, the economy didn't crash and burn as harshly on the prairie and in cities like Lincoln as it did in the rest of the country. Second, the pain from the tariffs and the lack of immigrant labor for agriculture and industry (especially meat packing) is only just starting to be reported on widely in prairie and prairie-adjacent communities. The people there, the ones who vote against their own self interest, that is, have yet to fully feel or understand that Trump's policies are directly and significantly hurting them.
Sadly, I fear that, with Dems controlling the House, the GOP and Fox will place the blame for any more economic pain on the Dems, not on the party and President holding the levers of power. And those voters who vote against their own self interest will swallow that bull hook-line-and-sinker.
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So pundits had no idea what they were talking about? Astonishing.
This midterm saw many first-time Democratic candidates running in state and House elections, and quite a few winning. Those people know what their neighbors will vote for a lot better than any pundit or ideologue. I hope the eventual 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, whoever it might be, will listen to local leaders and tailor their messages accordingly. Transgender rights probably won't move voters in rural Pennsylvania, but nor do well-to-do professionals in Atlanta suburbs want a Bernie Sanders eat-the-rich revolution.
If the party can avoid a circular firing squad over ideology and egos, there is still hope. I just don't know if Democrats have that level of self-control. The left has always been the left's worst enemy.
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Missouri had gone from a "purple state" to a red state if you only look at elected officials. But voters just approved medical marijuana, a minimum wage hike, and a constitutional ethics amendment to reform campaign finance and gerrymandering. In August, voters overwhelmingly rejected republican leaders' Right-to-Work law. I wish this had been mentioned. There's hope for us yet.
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I’m as liberal as they come, but feel strongly that medical marijuana is irrespective of partisan politics (I personally don’t mind medical use, definitely feel that small amounts should be decriminalized, but I am very much not a fan of legalizing). In fact, I would argue that conservatives are supportive not just from a personal use standpoint, but also from a financial perspective.
There are issues out there that defy liberal or conservative generalizing. The environment is another — we should all worry about our fresh water supply, wilderness areas, delicate ecosystems, depletion of fossil fuels, the mass extinction of pollinators and other bugs, pollution, monocrop practices, the overuse of chemicals on our lands, GMO, the industrialization of farming (both land and livestock), climate change, and endangered species. These things should keep us all awake at night.
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The Dems in the Midwest did not leave the party in the last 30 years,.... the party left them. They have not changed their values nor their concerns. The "elitism" of the Clintons and the affinity for the economic needs, as pols and pundits alike have perceived them became a self-fulfilling prophecy of a "coastal' Democratic Party. In full disclosure I am a lifelong registered Democrat.
I suspect that the luckiest man in America today is Gov. John Kasich-(R)-OH. If Democrats do not find a charismatic figure to run for President in 2020,..... a 'hero" of a figure,.... then Kasich will be the next President.
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So relieved for my family and friends that Laura Kelly won governor of KS. Brownback destroyed so many services in KS with his policies- they were all sick of it and the last last last person they wanted for governor was Kobach.
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Kansas Dems worked 24/7, alive, well, and incidentally victorious.
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A few random interviews finding those good ol' middle of the roaders, a dip into the ol' pragmatic centrist rhetoric, putting Michigan and South Dakota in the same Midwest basket, etc. and you get this sort of pablum. I'd be surprised if the reporters had interviewed the proverbial cab drivers, but only because they barely exist anymore. Almost nothing in this article is of any value. Serious changes happened in several Midwestern states Tuesday--see duPage County IL, or Oakland Co, Mi, or the grass roots anti-gerrymandering success in Michigan--but you wouldn't know it from this feely mood-of-the-people piece. American media really needs to up its game.
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Hold on. I woke up to 2 dead deer next to my Obama sign in 2008 in a suburb of Kansas City. I sold the family farm and headed to the Emerald City because of that. True story.
I USED to be a Republican, until that party declared war on the LGBT community in 2004. They expected me to turn away from my own flesh and blood.
Let me tell you, I am a refuge from Kansas, and a proud and fierce Democrat.
Good luck to those who stay. Poor deer.
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Klobuchar/Beto for 2020. Enough of the culture war, enough extremism on both sides. Klobuchar can take the mid-west that was the deciding factor in Hillary's loss, and Beto can threaten red-state Texas.
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Meanwhile I haven't heard a peep in two days from the GOP and its minions (Fox News) about the invading hordes on our southern border. Coincidence?
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This looks good for Democrats. They must win in the Midwest (minus Iowa and Indiana) and Pennsylvania to win the presidential election in 2020. Ohio will be hard to win but may be possible with a strong candidate that appeals to Midwestern voters. Forget Florida, Democrats- Trump has it locked up. And fyi, I've never heard North Dakota considered to be part of the Midwest. Kansas really isn't either.
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@DALE1102, now that Florida voters passed a referendum to allow felons to vote there, there will be an additional 1,000,000 Floridians eligible to vote there. That's a lot considering how small the margins of victory have been there at least back to 2000.
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Democrats will NEVER take Ohio!
Never say always, and never say never. The next two years will be turbulent. There’s no telling now how all of this will wash out.
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As far as I can tell, the Democratic Party wants very much to realign itself with the principles which it had claimed to represent in the decades past. This will necessarily require abandoning any kind of “purity test” for Party acceptance. If Democrats have failed to learn this much by now, then they’re doomed already.
Some things simply should not be partisan issues, and I don’t think that there is much disagreement on the broad strokes regarding those issues, but without the ability for Congress to compromise, the entire country will be forced to endure legislative inaction indefinitely.
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What are you talking about? The GOP controls all the branches of government. They just lost the house, but they had 2 years to fix pot holes and all they did was borrow money to give back to their donors.
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"But Jennifer Carnahan, the chairwoman of the Minnesota Republican Party, attributed her party’s losses in suburban congressional and state legislative races to “a very motivated bloc” of Democratic voters registering their distaste for the president."
In part, but let's remember that your typical suburban voters in blue states were singled out as the ONLY group to get a tax increase in the huge tax giveaway by Trump and the Republicans.
Middle to high income, paying property taxes to good schools, and having two or more kids...that's your republican suburban voter and he and she knows they will be paying more, substantially more, next year. They also know that the GOP intended that very result: in a bill that threw pots of money away, the GOP ended exemptions and curtailed SALT deductions used by its loyal suburban base for no other reason than to raise their taxes as a lesson in conservative political ideology.
Most Americans are miffed that the Treasury was broken for a tax bill that gave them chump change and but millions to the rich. But suburban Republicans know they got special treatment of a tax hike.
In DuPage County, Illinois, two GOP congressional seats turned blue, and the dems won historically high numbers of state house seats, county board seats, and other various units of local government.
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@Yeah For sure! Will not vote for Republicans who vindictively raised taxes for blue states. Minnesotans in general have always paid more in Federal taxes than the state has ever gotten back. One reason state taxes are higher is Minnesota takes care of its own needs as much as possible.
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@Yeah As a six-figure taxpayer in Roskam's district, I was SO happy to see him tossed out. The craven fool ran out the back door of a town hall on healthcare, and screwed his constituents with big tax increases.
He doesn't deserve to be elected dog catcher.
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This is a strange article. I don't know of any Democrat who has "written of the Midwest." Also, Republican strength in the state legislatures is due to their continued gerrymandering in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, not because Democrats are weak in these places.
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@Paul and gerrymandering in Illinois too
Sorry, but Iowa is about the least gerrymandered state in the country. It's also exceedingly rural.
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Agree, Iowa not gerrymandered.
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Democrats also have got to stop the cat-herd mentality and get their votes lined up for the issues important to their constituents. Otherwise, in the face of Republican lock-step voting discipline, any numeric advantage remains at risk for nullification.
There is no way to understand the Midwest without discussing how economic policies of the last 40 years have left it poorer than the South. But unlike the South which had grown used to (but not happy with) poverty, the Midwesterners are fallen people now — hard working, home owners, small business owners, self made and now living in a failed state called the Rust Belt.
Blame the victim is rife whenever deindustrialization is discussed. But the worst of it is that lies are trotted out. It is not the fault of factory workers that the new service economy offers them only poorly paid low skill labor.
The Dems approved trickle down. Tip O'Neil and all the party leaders signed on to all that Reagan Era legislation. They controlled the Congress but didn't fight. Pell grants were eliminated by Dems. No funding other than meager shrinking local tax bases were provided for education. The Dems approved the dumbing down of the Midwest and the country.
The Dems now rely on the metro regions of Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Cleveland, just 4 cities for almost all their Midwestern seats. Shaky ground indeed, yet they have no new urban policies they're championing. They have no new infrastructure projects to promote urban connectivity. They have no plan to bring back the Midwestern Economy. They don't even feel they need to offer one. The Dems betrayed the Midwest, slowly and stealthily for their rich donors and the Blue Billionaires views are all we hear from the Dems.
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@Arthur, your comment is factually incorrect. Tip O'Neill fought against "trickle down" and Dems did not approve any of the items you mention. They are the only party to have introduced infrastructure projects which they have again raised yesterday. I don't know where you are getting your info but everything you say is false.
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@Arthur And yet, even with all the dumbing down of the Midwest, we know that Democrats come from a number of urban areas that you can't recall off the top of your head, like, say, Columbus, a vibrant city with a medical and educational megaplex, or Indianapolis or Milwaukee, both commercial and financial centers. Or smaller cities, like Des Moines or Grand Rapids, which have household incomes above national levels. Or college towns, like Ann Arbor or Champaign, homes of top flight public universities.
I wouldn't expect you to know of either the policies or the economies of the cities whose names you don't know, but you might want to have checked the Google machine about efforts in Chicago and Minneapolis (usually paired with St Paul, to be picky).
But I do expect you to know better than to blame the democrats of those cities for the failed policies of the Republican federal government and the state level republicans. You have no idea what these cities do for their states...."keep them afloat" with taxes and jobs is the correct answer. And you have no idea what to do differently. All you do is blame the wrong people.
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@Arthur
CT is the same now, poorer then the south. CT had a strong middle class from the 50's because of its manufacturing base. Then Wall Street sold the factories to China in the 80's / 90's. People didn't notice until recently now that there are no industrial jobs. Everyone can't be a computer programer , but that is where the jobs are. Many defence jobs are gone too, they now partner with other countries. What's left....... Home Depot, Dunkin Donuts.
We were sold out by local state admins., they wanted 'clean' industry.
Its very clean now, no smoke stacks, no cars in the empty parking lots , just weeds growing in the asphalt,
In Kansas, the GOP took tax cuts to their illogical conclusion. There are several top-rated public school systems in the state that have been a source of pride for many decades. When you starting cutting funding to those just so “job creators” can pad their bank accounts, the people justifiably cry fowl. The Republicans elsewhere should take note ..,but they probably won’t...
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Tremendous thanks to NYT: the in-depth information in your state-by-state breakdown has been worth my years of subscription. PLEASE Every reader look at the breakdowns of voting of any state by county. You will find amazing facts - many counties had extremely close Republican - Democrat tallies. Of course you will often find differences. In one county I found 6 to 1 ratios. I have a new appreciation for the complexities of the US electorate and I believe a well run party process at the local level can make a significant difference in state and national elections.
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I have lived in Michigan all my life. Most of us in the so called Midwest do not live on farms with red barns. We live in the cities and suburbs of Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City, Cleveland, Indianapolis and so on. Please consider this when illustrating your articles.
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@Jean Cranston: You're so right. I grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and the Calumet region of Northwest Indiana, full of smokestack industries like steel mills and factories, all on Lake Michigan. Only 2% of the workforce in those states is in agriculture.
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@Jean Cranston Notably, one of the later comments says that the Democrats rely on "four metro areas" for all of their Midwestern seats, while you point out (correctly) that most Midwesterner live in metro areas.
It seems to me that implicit in these descriptions is that the only Midwesterners that matter live in rural areas, and that the vibrant and wealthy urban and suburban areas found throughout the Midwest region have nothing to offer them or the US.
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@Jean Cranston
I wish I could like this a milllion times.
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I always thought the pundit reaction to 2016 was off-base. Trump won Michigan and Wisconsin by infinitesimal margins in part because Hillary didn't campaign much in either state (and, in fairness, in part because he was more popular in some blue collar and rural areas than Romney or McCain had been). Within the Midwest, the states vary. Illinois and Minnesota are blue states whereas Indiana and Iowa are red. As a region, I would argue that the Midwest is and always has been purple where outcomes depend on which groups of voters (urban/rural, blue collar/white collar) are more motivated in a particular election.
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@PeteM Your thoughts on the 2016 punditry is exactly right. Michigan and Illinois got much bluer this year, in ways the pundits are simply passing over. There is still hope for Iowa, as it only went all red as the farm economy consolidation strangled it, and the best and brightest kids lit out for Chicago and Minneapolis. Indiana, however... Well it's not called the Hoosier State for nothing.
Wisconsin may have tossed out Walker but the R-controlled legislature is already planning to pass laws limiting the Governor's powers. If you loose, change the rules....
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Unless they have a veto-proof majority in both chambers, those proposed laws are going exactly nowhere.
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There is no point in talking about a "Midwest" that includes both South Dakota and Ohio. The industrial states bordering the Great Lakes are entirely different historically, culturally, economically, and politically, from the rural "heartland" beloved of talking heads. This is a region where a relentless Republican attack on unions and Democratic acquiescence to (or even embracing of) the off-shoring of jobs has opened the way for genuine realignment. Moderation? I promise you that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have won in Michigan.
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I couldn’t agree more. We are not in any part of the West. We are states that developed in large part because of being near the Great Lakes. And we are not the “Rust Belt” either.
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As a native Midwesterner who has lived in 4 very different states (OH, IL, MO, and IN), I find the blanket characterization of the region to be laughable. There are multiple Midwests--urban, agricultural, populist, even socialist v old school Republican, and some states are geographically transitional (Oho and MO as examples). The one unifying feature is that Midwestern conservatives can be dragged kicking and screaming toward something new, whereas change in most of the Southeast continues to require the external force of law, if not a gun.
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@rich I agree—it is laughable to lump all these states into one category, or even counties within states like Ohio.
And on the Ohio results, I’m surprised that the Times hasn’t considered (that I’ve seen) the impact of Governor Kasich on our elections. I’m a democrat who voted for Cordray. But even though I’ve disagreed with Mr. Kasich about a LOT of policy issues, I think he’s also kept Ohio from completely devolving into partisan tantrums. A few years ago I wouldn’t have voted for him. But he’s proven himself a decent man, in my eyes. At one point he was even just as popular with dems as Republicans.
My family is as purple as it gets—we literally run the gamut. I can tell you we really didn’t have any arguments over the governor’s race. Most people I know were like, “meh—either way, it’ll be okay.” I think enough people associated DeWine (and all the other statewide candidates) more with Gov. Kasich than with Trump. Hopefully they were right in that, but time will tell.
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If moderation still plays well in the Midwest, then 2 more years of Trump popping off -- like he did all day yesterday -- will make it a good Election Day for Dems come November 2020.
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Insipid analysis. Democrats failed to challenge Trump, but the voters rejected the right wing extremism of Kobach, Walker and others. Trump's election and this election were a repudiation of so-called "pragmatism". There are no more "pragmatic elections."
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Democrats really took that "Blue Wall" for granted, especially Hillary. It's not surprising that the Republicans were able to make huge inroads in the area, but they are starting to shoot themselves in the foot as they go more and more into being the American Taliban, and less about governing. At the end of the day, if the Democrats are really serious about rebuilding the "wall", they should start by getting rid of Nancy Pelosi. I mean, honestly, the woman had her 15 minutes and now it's time to ditch the pearls and get some fresh ideas.
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Seems people in the midwest will vote Republican until their public institutions have been fleeced so thoroughly to pay for the rich's tax cuts that there is no money left for schools and potholes. (Republicans love the uneducated.) In addition to voting for criminals, Republicans are so loyal, they elected a dead man in Nevada. They are so used to (and accepting of) corruption, it's the only way to do business in the US government now.
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midwest progressive democrat, though I have voted outside that party. nothing grates me more than divisive rhetoric pandering to the fringe. I just want a candidate that will do the work of governing for all, and make solutions for climate change a priority. Heartened to see the results in Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Iowa -- you are next.
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As a midwesterner, I can certainly add to this change. These areas that elected Democrats are better educated and less motivated by race identity politics than the deep South. These states also have large progressive metropolitan areas. They don't have large pockets of rural poverty like appalachia. They also have large public university systems that are quite good.
The white nationalist message of Trump doesn't resonate here as well as it does in more impoverished and southern areas.
Missouri is really two states. South of I-70, is an area that allied with the Confederacy. North of I-70 is more like Iowa, conservative, but more practical and much less racist. I don't have much of an accent but go into the southern parts of the state and people speak like they were from Arkansas, it's almost a full southern drawl, but not quite.
Trump tapped into a tremendous amount of anxiety in the midwest but it appears that many of those who supported him have figured out he is a fraud. I wish I could say the same for those in the southern half of my state.
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@Bruce Rozenblite The center of Confederate support in Missouri was along the Missouri River in the northern and central parts of the state where there were much larger farms and there more slave. However, it is true that the predominantly German immigrants and immigrants from the northeastern states that came to Missouri in the mid-19th century were quite culturally different from the people who had settled from Appalachia, and that leads to the current cultural differences that you cite.
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@Bruce Rozenblit
Not so sure about Iowa. They re-elected King.
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@Graydog It has been noted that district to be one of the reddest in the midwest and republicans have won handily there since at least 2000, for some context. This year was King's tightest race yet. He still won but I think there was a sense his grip on the district has waned.
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Who needs roads. Buy a bigger SUV.
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In Wisconsin, in addition to gutting aid to public schools, the Republican legislature and Scott Walker, who appear to hold the University of Wisconsin system, once the pride of the state and admired across the nation, in such contempt that they systematically starved the system. They cut disproportionately large percentage of the budget in comparison with the proportion the system funding from the state makes of the state budget. The perceived (and likely accurate) liberal leaning of the system's employees and students was always a thorn on the side of the Republican party in the state. As soon as Walker, the paid servant of the Koch brothers took control of Governorship, they engaged in systematically penalizing the system, something that was deserved some of the times but undeserved and unfair most of the time. It is unfortunate that the damage is too severe to completely repair any time soon. Having a Democrat at the helms just may be a step, however small, in the right direction to achieving that.
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The Illinois election was more like the one in the Northeast than the Midwest. Voters in the Chicago suburbs (the collar counties) will be slammed by the new tax law, so they flipped their districts.
Bruce Rauner was incompetent and ineffective. His defeat was inevitable, even if the suburbs didn't flip. His candidacy may well have helped Democratis in tight Congressionsl races.
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In Wisconsin, Scott Walker’s taxpayer giveaways to Foxconn and the many unintended consequences that followed, such as the company announcing 3500 new jobs rather than the originally ballyhooed 13,000, didn’t help either.
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Also, it is important to know, many of the Republican candidates are proponents of passing along Voucher Taxes to their constituents to benefit the students attending private (often religious) schools in our communities. No only are the Republican efforts raising local taxes to benefit the few (who are already attending the private schools), they are taking away money and resources from the schools that benefit the entire community.
Looking forward to having Tony Evers lead WI. He now has the platform to effectively inform the electorate what Walker (and the WI Repub legislature) have been obfuscating and covering up for years. This, in itself, is a very good thing.
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"...meat-and-potato matters like repairing potholes and paying for schools..."
Yes, along with health care, jobs, etc. Democrats lose in these places when they allow Republicans to make elections about culture war nonsense, so they have got to appeal to voters on issues that actually affect people's lives on a daily basis.
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Voters in these states sent a message of moderation, and that's all to the good. One can only hope the fever is finally breaking. But make no mistake. The GOP remains dangerously radicalized and rightwing media remains as toxic as ever. So long as trump is in the White House the turmoil, corruption and demagoguery will continue. The paradox of Democrats regaining the House is that it makes it all the more likely we will soon experience a constitutional crisis.
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Let this be a lesson to the Democratic Party as it anoints a challenger to Trump in 2020. Actually, most Americans are moderate. I know whereof I speak, because I say this from navy blue Seattle, and it’s true here too. A majority of us actually like Amazon as we proved in the popular uprising that forced the City Council to repeal the head tax.
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