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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know who is shitting their pants right now about the recall?
Those GOP who won in their purple districts. This can not look good for them.
ColinC
(8,227 posts)tinrobot
(10,848 posts)Because at the end of the day this whole recall is what that was all about: trying to kill more people
SCantiGOP
(13,855 posts)it would be that people dont want to die.
But let them run on a pro-Covid, anti-women agenda.
SleeplessinSoCal
(8,992 posts)Michelle "lower taxes" Steel. That's been her mantra. It's going to be a hard climb to get him back in. Stars will have to align.
Xolodno
(6,330 posts)...probably no big deal. But near the end of a first term, waste or our tax money, Texas outlawing abortion, people overwhelming the health care system in Florida...yeah, that's going to be hard sell for the GOP in California.
They are going to have to go against their own party.
Johonny
(20,681 posts)run that over and over in the purple districts. They're fiscal conservatives.
OAITW r.2.0
(23,812 posts)ShazzieB
(15,952 posts)denbot
(9,894 posts)The Covid butcher bill will cost them.
crickets
(25,896 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)Hope theres BIGTIME momentum for this. It wasnt just a win. It was a shellacking.
PortTack
(32,606 posts)Dont have a lot of room to move. They pretty much much made all the gains they are going to in 20 and are hoping that gerrymandering will do it. That remains to be seen.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)But the fact that it even happened is alarming.
California is the bluest state in the country, but the GOP still found a way to wreak havoc there.
Sympthsical
(8,931 posts)People are not amused by this.
Jon King
(1,910 posts)I do not see it as alarming at all. In fact, it woke many Dems up about the big picture. So even though it cost many millions, in the end it helps the Dems with a game plan in Cali and nationally.
Xolodno
(6,330 posts)This was their only chance to possibly retake the state that gave us Nixon and Reagan (which are probably more liberal than today's GOP) and they blew it, bigly.
The recall law is nice to have in a bad situation, but it has to be revamped. It's too easy to invalidate an election on a bunch of bullshit.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 15, 2021, 02:19 AM - Edit history (1)
Idiots.
(Whoops. I didnt know what purple districts were, so my reply is kind of dopey).
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Occurred to me to wonder if/how this will affect McConnell and company's congressional strategy, and perhaps some behaviors in red states. They need positives to run on for 2022, and hopefully may tamp down indulgences of their slarming RW extremism, including legislation to bring women into subordination.
Jon King
(1,910 posts)Tie every single Repug to denying women and girl's their rights and hating science and costing the country with their Covid crap.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)PufPuf23
(8,687 posts)at this moment, very well, me !!!
Now I feel silly worrying.
I have a learned response to be disappointed by elections. Have voted since 1971 and the only time voted for a non-Democratic candidate was John Anderson in the 1980 California GOP POTUS primary to slow Reagan. I had read somewhere the most powerful way to leverage one's vote was by voting in primary of opposing party and then for party in general.
Xolodno
(6,330 posts)Over 44% of the state voters is registered "D". For "R" its less than 25%....add that the independents have been trending "D". Long story short, you need over half of voters for Newsom to not show up. That's just not happening. I knew he won even before I cast my ballot. Think some outlets were trying to make a horse race out of a turtle race, but the front runner was still a horse.
Sure, Arnold won the last time around. But he wasn't a real Republican. And Riordon probably would have beat Davis...and Riordon wasn't a real Republican either (should caveat that, yes, in California they are Republicans...not so much in Kansas). They have conservative fiscal views...and that's about it.
But what interests me, the margin Newsom won. This doesn't bode well for the GOP....as the old saying goes, "As California goes, so does the nation". His ex-girlfriend is probably pissed she latched on to Trump.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Voters are fed up with their lying, cheating, grifting, and outright denial of common sense and basic human decency. Deplorable.
Dorian Gray
(13,469 posts)they should have pressured the party to STOP BEING NUTJOBS!
Hope they all lose.