The GOP still control very gerrymandered states like Texas at local/state government level and they'll play hard ball to stay in power. The sad part is their voting base will ignore these power grabs because they only care about winning.
Plus generally speaking, the right are more consistent voters. Took a Donald Trump to bring the Democrats out in force, but that probably won't be true next election. Without a good boogie man, fact is many may just decide to stay at home and not bother with the mail in's.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Typically democrats are urban voters and many GOP controlled states make it super hard to vote in the cities. For instance voting times are much harder to hit in Urban areas where large numbers of people can get jammed into long lines before work.
These types of things make it highly highly inconvenient this year mail in ballots made it a lot easier to get around the GOPs' normal suppression game plan.
Honestly I think that day should just become federal holiday.
Funny you mention actively making voting harder for people. I recently read an article that answered the question of why absentee voting is more important to push now then in, say, 2004. The article cited Covid as a reason, of course, but it also said the voting cohort had changed.
It very blatantly went on to say in 2000-2004 most people who needed mail in votes were seniors who voted Republican, and would get to the polls no matter what, so they didn't need them at all.
Combine that with an article from the New York Times from 2004:
You won't find articles like that from the NYT now. Instead, nearly all articles are promoting the security of ballots, and how it supports ones right to vote.
Pretty much a silver bullet example of why the Times is considered in the tank for the Democrats, as far as I'm concerned.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I dunno, while Texas is slowly trending blue, and will probably eventually become a blue state, other states are trending red, namely Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. If those turn red in the future then, while dems will still have the advantage, it won't be the blowout victories you'd think with them having texas.
I live in Ohio. One of the big reasons it's trending red is that it is so gerrymandered the GOP just get to push all the objectives and narratives through at the state level. Slowly creating conservative stronghold in the process.
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