Nine points. They won a +22 district by nine. Despite active voter suppression.
Yeah, they should be “fretting.”
To the conservative mindset it’s always “dangerous” if democracy were to break out somewhere…
Republicans will continue to vote Republican. I have zero confidence in any of these headlines.
It’s not about changing the Republican vote. They’re worried that Democrats will start coming out and voting in off-cycle elections (e.g. midterms), which is not something a lot of Democrats do regularly.
If Democrats voted as often as Republicans, we’d have a whole different political landscape right now. That’s why they’re worried.
My God the American electoral system is retarded. Why on earth don’t you have compulsory universal suffrage? And voting on weekends, why isn’t that a thing? Unbelievable
The entire system was designed around landowners being the only voters. So that meant only rich white men. Who had the time, personal desire, and societal expectation to stay current on social changes and the economy. They also had every reason to vote whenever possible. The core electoral system is based around these expectations and has had very few changes since it was created.
As voting rights were extended to more groups, the built-in structure of the system wasn’t updated. The rich landowners have every reason to vote, and the free time to do so and travel if needed. The system relies on an educated voting populace, which was already an expectation of those that were allowed to vote.
Modern Republicans have used those built in structural expectations to their advantage. And since lower turnout tends to go their way, they try to force that however they can, and regularly have courts throw their egregious shit out. So for decades now they have focused on replacing judges with sycophants in every state and federal opening they can. If those judges won’t throw out the bullshit, then they can do what they want.
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The point isn’t confidence, it’s hope.
Apparently the result wasn’t “dangerous” enough to motivate them to change anything.
Oh no, they’re trying to change lots of things. Just not in good directions.
Republicans pulled out all the stops — including a Trump tele-rally and Johnson visit to the district — to rescue Van Epps
He really doesn’t get out much anymore, does he. Sleepy Don.
“Republicans can survive if we play team and the Trump administration officials play smart. Neither is certain.”
Neither are certain, and having both is highly unlikely. Let’s make sure it is “doom in 2026” for the GOP. Doom doom doomy doom doom doom.
