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No Blue Wave

The media could not lie and make it happen. Crazy spending could not make it happen. As always the silent majority has spoken at the polls.
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All in all, they did pretty well.

I mean, the Democrats blew their own brains out with this Kavanaugh thing.

And being totally maimed, they were able to take the house despite some pretty grotesque races, voting irregularities, and Trump hammering at them as being basically the antichrist. And some pretty bad Democratic leadership.

Sure. It was smaller than the blue way in 2006 and much smaller than the red wave in 2010. But whether races were won or not seems immaterial. I mean, fuck, for Beto to come that close in Texas? Gillum that close in Florida?

Definitely a shift more to the left. Everywhere.

I'm really impressed by counties in the Deep South going from solid "red" to "pink" or even neutralish.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M
Close only matters in horseshoes. @CopperCicada
@jackjjackson Well, they took the house. Which is not real achievement. Based on historical patterns if they didn't it would have been weird.

But the red shifts were fewer than the blue shifts.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M
The win in the House was far less than predicted. @CopperCicada
@jackjjackson Of course it was. I pointed that out. It was 1/2 as big as the 2010 red flip. Smaller than the blues were predicting this election.

Sure. What matters is winning elections. Blues didn't do as well as they thought. But the demographic shift is certainly to the left.
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@SW-User I have no objective data on that. Just the sample of people in my circle.
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jackjjackson · 61-69, M
At least when I was coming up it seemed as though parents were conservative kids rebelled and were liberal and moved to the center and then conversative as they aged had jobs and had saved assets. @CopperCicada @SW-User
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jackjjackson · 61-69, M
Good,point. The question is why are we so willing to pay for THAT? @SW-User
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jackjjackson · 61-69, M
Shouldn’t they observe the change in their kids? Shouldn’t they be aware of conservstive speakers being banned from colleges? @SW-User
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jackjjackson · 61-69, M
Mine are out of college and working. Two conservatives one liberal. My wife is a liberal and believe it or not n9ne of us ever fight sbout it. I have a conversative nephew who will graduate from Vanderbilt this year. Mine were Temple Penn and Maryland. My other niece and nephew are liberals with crazy liberal parents. Penn and Texas.