What Democratic issues are too far left for the general public?
Kentucky.
Trump supporters have many faults but they DO like to vote.
It is disappointing to compare polls that sample ALL voters with those that sample only Likely Voters (LV). As of October 20, despite increasingly heinous behavior, an LV poll shows Disapprove beating Approve by only 51 to 47. And many of the Disapprovers will vote MAGA anyway “because Biden was even worse.”
You’re right that GOP gerrymandering might back-fire if there’s a big backlash against psychopathy, and we should “cross our fingers” and hope.
But …
Such optimism may enhance your social life, but it isn’t realistic.
Some of the more divisive issues surrounding transgender people, especially the issue of transgender women participating in women’s sports.
That’s my mom. I tell her what’s wrong with Trump and things he does, and she’s horrified. I told her about the SCOTUS ruling that said the POTUS couldn’t be charged for anything done in the course of his duties (without specifying what that means) and she objected that it makes the POTUS sound like a king. I then pointed out the massive No Kings protests occurring.
She gets all that. And I asked her who she voted for in the last election and she said Trump because she couldn’t stand Harris. She wouldn’t (or couldn’t) articulate why either.
That’s probably not that unusual among the US voting pool.
I know a bunch of those people. “Harris did something I disapproved of” is about all the explanation they can muster for why they chose trump in 2024.
I suspect it was a canned RW talking point and lots of folks just absorbed it and regurgitated it.
The effect of a third of the media telling everyone “Everything is awful!” and driving the narrative for the rest cannot be under estimated.
Biden navigated a global pandemic and the ensuing unavoidable inflation better than literally the rest of world (or nearly at least) but everyday the news was about how expensive everything is which makes everyone angry and sour on the current government.
Today prices are worse and mostly because of the specific choices of the person in charge but yet you never see stories complaining about it anymore. This makes a big difference in people’s attitudes even if they don’t closely follow politics.
Which zero Democratic politicians are pushing.
Exactly. I guess what the Democrats have to do is get the morons to stop believing the lies being told about them. Which is quite challenging.
Yes, there were probably some single issue voters who did not like Harris’s positions on Gaza. So they pivot to the guy who wants to facilitate genocide, pave Gaza and put up Trump disneyland in it’s place. It makes no sense.
It’s like you don’t like nuts in your ice cream, so you choose the brand with chunks of shit in it instead.
Zactly. You’ve neatly summarized the whole political future of the USA.
When the Ds have a for-profit propaganda arm that can create a 100 million strong heavily committed movement towards the left, they’ll succeed.
Until then they’re pretty much stuck in 3rd party status at least as to the president and Senate.
As I pointed out in another thread, the why is she is a black women.
People don’t admit to racism when they are asked in opinion polls. In the 1966 (IIRC) race for Mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley, was the first black man to run for the position. He was ahead in the polls, but lost. Four years later, he ran again and won.
21 Indiana Republicans joined with Democrats to reject the Trump-backed redistricting plan.
Indiana Republicans rejected an effort to redraw the state’s congressional map on Thursday, a stunning and blunt rebuke of Donald Trump and Republican efforts to reconfigure the state’s congressional districts to add two more Republican-friendly seats.
The measure failed 19-31, with 21 Republicans joining 10 Democrats in rejecting the new maps.
Is this the first unequivocal rebellion against Trump by Republicans? Of course, Trump and the governor threatened to primary anyone who didn’t toe the line, but for once that didn’t seem to have much effect.
I hope Trump is hearing the steady, ineluctable march of ignominious defeat in the small hours of the night. And all day long, too, for that matter.
The thought warms my heart.
I’m still surprised the Indiana legislature voted against redistricting. Even with the unpopularity of Trump, one would think they would want more Rs in the house. Yes, it may have been what their constituents (though presumably most of them are Rs so again I think many would be for it), and was the morally? (not sure best word) choice, but those haven’t stopped legislatures before.
Again, not only did Rs join Ds, but the MAJORITY of Rs voted against this.
Brian
I think its three things:
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the results of recent elections
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from what I’ve heard their constituents in Indiana were vehemently against this
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don’t threaten midwesterners
Another point is IL was threatening to do the same should IN act - which would potentially flip 3 seats blue, to IN’s 2 states flipped red. Faced with enough opposition, enough Rs were not rabid enough to take such pointless action.
According to one Hoosier writing in to the Votemaster, they revolted against getting orders from someone in Washington.
Also being threatened with violence/death, and swatted (I read that one had a SWAT team break down his door based on a report that he’d killed his wife). Which would certainly get my back up.