Reply to GOP to WOMEN: DROP DEAD

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "GOP to WOMEN: DROP DEAD"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what happens when seats go uncontested and the GOP is given full reign to rule with no accountability.[/quote]
That sounds like you’re dumping responsibility for this in the lap of the Democratic Party. Is there any reason you can’t just assign blame to the forced birthers, the GOP? This isn’t on the Democrats. [/quote]
The Democratic Party of abandoned state & local elections in favor of the presidency and Senate. They  abandoned Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy when Obama was elected. This is just a fact.

The good news is that Democrats now understand the importance of state and local elections and are kicking butt. Look at Michigan and Pennsylvania. North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, even Arkansas had an incredible filing cycle this year. In all but Arkansas, Democrats are contesting every single state Senate seat and almost all state house seats. I am very optimistic of the trajectory, but it will take time to crawl out of the hole that the Dem party put us in when they abandoned Dean’s strategy.

As a Democrat, I think it’s very important to be clear eyed how we got here. Yes, the GOP ante awful but we let them have the seats. We let them become so powerful that they can redraw the lines so that we could not compete.

If you want to change this trajectory, I donate and volunteer to organizations that are doing this. 
I give monthly to Blue Ohio & Blue Texas help fund state legislative races and register voters.

I volunteer with Betos group to register new voters. Last cycle I knocked doors and made calls in VA. I’m not complaining. I’m just stating fact and I’m taking action.
Beto [/quote]
Not sure Michigan is a win this year in a national election. Local and state wins, yes. National, I don’t think so. Same for Pennsylvania. [/quote]
2016 was the last time any Republican won all of Michigan or Pennsylvania but keep ignoring actual election results. [/quote]

Since the overturn of RvW, all elections have had record turnout of young child-bearing age voters and women.  The under-35 demographic and women have overwhelmingly voted against abortion restrictions in deep-red Kansas, very red Ohio, and have re-elected Democratic governor, Andy Beshear in Kentucky, and turned both houses of the Virginia legislature Democratic.  Each of these states, abortion was a major voting issue and in each case, abortion rights have prevailed.

So you really think that the same is not going to happen in purple states like Michigan (where voters support abortion rights 54-42) and Pennsylvania (where voters support abortion rights 51-44)?  As with the other states, young voters and suburban women will be coming out and will vote overwhelmingly Democratic.

Additionally Texas has become much more competitive.  In 2016, Trump beat clinton 52.23% - 43.24% (+8.99%).  In 2020, Trump beat Biden 52.06% - 46.48% (+5.58%).  6 of the 7 fastest growing areas in the state of Texas are the cities that historically vote blue (Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Ft Worth, El Paso).   Between the growing Democratic demographics in the blue areas, and if, Texas follows other states where young voters, women and suburban households come out in record numbers and vote significantly blue, Texas becomes a very competitive state in 2024, especially with the draconian policies that Abbott, Patrick and Paxton have been pushing.  I would not be surprised to see Texas vote blue in 2024.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics