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EddieDoyers said:

Some conservatives have warned that Trumpism is not the best way to go about at a local and state level. Sounds like those conservatives have been vindicated tonight.

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EddieDoyers said:

Some conservatives have warned that Trumpism is not the best way to go about at a local and state level. Sounds like those conservatives have been vindicated tonight.

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rolaholic said:

GOP candidates when tiny hands comes to town to campaign in the future:

Dude has got the Sadim touch

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stuntman mike said:

my friend’s new phone case

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elpablo21 said:

legit chance in December?

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The party’s resident “sensible centrists” are horrified: “Has the entire Democratic Party forgotten the words ‘George McGovern’?” they cry. In column after column, they have been imploring their co-partisans to remember a fundamental fact: America is a center-right nation, where nearly 70 percent of voters are moderate or conservative, and just 25 percent are liberal. Over the past eight years, Democrats lost sight of this inconvenient truth — and lost control of more than 1,000 state legislative seats, the House, the Senate and the presidency.

This argument may sound coolheaded and pragmatic. But its core premises — that American voters are hostile to progressive economics and have punished the (increasingly left-wing) Democratic Party accordingly — actually rest on ideological conviction, not empirical evidence.

In truth, the Republican Party’s dominance has little to do with the American electorate’s “center-right” ideology. We know this for two simple reasons: First, the vast majority of that electorate has no ideology, whatsoever. And second, when polled on discrete policy questions, Americans consistently express majoritarian support for a left-of-center economic agenda.

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When we look past ideological self-identification to polling on discrete public policy questions, America appears to be far more center-left than center-right. In a recent analysis of Democracy Fund Voter Study Group survey data, the political scientist Lee Drutman found that 73.5 percent of the 2016 electorate espoused broadly left-of-center views on economic policy.

That finding is supported by polling on individual fiscal issues over the past year. Recent surveys have shown that most Americans — including majorities of Republican voters — support increasing federal financing of health care and oppose cutting taxes for the wealthy. And there’s little evidence that the Democrats’ left flank is exhausting the public’s tolerance for government intervention in the economy: Recent polls have found that over 60 percent of Americans support tuition-free public college (a majority that includes 58 percent of independents and 47 percent of Republicans); that over 60 percent of all voters favor Medicaid and Medicare buy-in programs, while a slim majority likes the sound of single-payer; and that 82 percent of voters, including 70 percent of Republicans, support new legislation expanding access to paid family and medical leave.

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whywesteppin said:

donald looking VERY dapper, as usual.

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EddieDoyers said:

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/r...ection-gillespie-northam#eln-forecast-section

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/new-jersey-general-elections

For those that want to follow NJ and Virginia elections

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RIP sleazyy said:

We lit. Weed decriminalization soon come.

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rolaholic said:

Good article gry60


Been a lot of understandable excitement over today's results but this is a major towards holding and building on all these gains

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elpablo21 said:

Relevant tweet to that point

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