The Voting Rights Act (1965) included gerrymandering limitations, and while the recent SCOTUS has weakened it, substantial parts of it have passed Constitutional tests (the Wikipedia article gives a decent summary).
I predict that Georgia, unlike their cousin to the south, is going to end up blue. My guess is that Kemp and Raffensperger, assuming they even run in 2022, will lose their primary. Abrams will win for governor if she runs. I think Warnock is also likely to win against whichever far right Republican challenges him.
I’m happy I got more liberal as I aged. Never understood that whole thing about getting more conservative. Also seems like most of the Trump supporters I know are very young people just starting out or old people.
I’ve gotten small-c conservative about local taxes as I’ve owned more property, and less “burn down the system” and more “work within the system” for other stuff, that’s usually the sort of thing people talk about in terms of becoming conservative with age.
That adage makes sense as long as the dialog is mainly economic. 30 years ago that might have led me to vote R locally, nowadays with the R’s being burn-it-down radicals, that just moves me from progressive to moderate D in terms of economics, while keeping me firmly progressive in terms of civil rights and other non-economic issues.
Same here.
I think there was a point where I maintained an “if I can succeed, so can you” mentality that lead me to hold political positions that were less than empathetic.
As I grew older and wiser, I became more sensitive to the range of human experience and attuned to the difficulty of some of the life challenges I never faced personally. A lot of this had to do with living and working in a large city.
This caused my political positions to become more liberal. I also feel that some positions I held that used to be moderate or even conservative light are now considered liberal as the spectrum shifted.
Me three
As I saw and grew to understand the privileges that money buys that lead directly to “success” I have become a LOT more understanding and empathetic and willing to fund that leg up.
The 2022 midterm ads are underway. The Democrats have a LOT to work with!
Having made it past November, and even past the Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia, it may seem like the airwaves and signboards near you would finally be free of political ads. However … that’s not quite true. While the idea that ads are already showing up for the 2022 election cycle might even be enough to generate howls, there’s a reason that these ads should be welcomed. Because these ads are all about holding Republicans accountable for what they’ve done over the last four years.
That starts with ads that are going on the air in Wisconsin to detail the explicit connection between Sen. Ron Johnson and the violent attempt to overthrow the government. Voters to the south might not be catching those ads, but they could still run across a Josh Hawley billboard from MeidasTouch. It’s all just part of the move to clear the halls of Congress … of the people who promoted a violent attack on the halls of Congress.
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As a MN resident who receives mostly WI TV stations I say “ugg”
Mute button at the ready
Political ads, even ones I may agree with, annoy me
Brian
Can I see a cite for this? What I’ve been able to find breaks voters down into slightly different age buckets than generation, such as this NY Times data. Gen X spans the 30-44 bucket (basically, everyone in that bucket who was 40 and up is Gen X) - which was 52-46 for Biden - and the 45-64 bucket (the younger half of whom are Gen X) - which went 50-49 for Trump. My best extrapolation from that is that Gen Xers went for Biden, but by less than the youts.
Just a note that that Hawley ad has nothing to do with any existing campaign or 2022. He’s not up until 2024. It’s just a bit of political theater at this point (not necessarily a bad thing)