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Calista241

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13. The census and redistricting isn't going to change anytime soon.
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 07:07 PM
Nov 2020

The Utopia ushered in the Democratic Party has a problem, despite winning the Presidential Popular Vote by a large margin we lost the balance of the "down ticket" races. Republicans made gains in House, will likely retain control of the Senate, and managed to expand their control of various state governments.

Even worse, CNN exit polling indicated a little less than 2/3rds of the people who voted for Biden were voting for him, they were voting against Trump. So up to 1/3rd of that nearly 75 million person vote tally he amassed has "unknown politics" for him to address, they could be moderates, they could be Republican Never-Trumpers (which is reflected in the "down-ballot" of several states), or they could be extreme left-wingers who voted Biden to ensure Trump went down.

Biden won the Presidential election in Pennsylvania, but we managed to lose both state houses yet again. How does that happen?

This article from The Atlantic summarizes my view:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/democrats-2020-elections-state-legislatures/617047/

I guess in summary that I'm thrilled that Trump lost, but we got whooped again elsewhere.

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