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More Republicans tend to go out and vote. As for state and local governments, a majority of cities throughout the country aren't that big. They are rather small. People who live in more rural environments tend to be a lot more conservative. Many states out there do not have large enough cities to make states blue.
Maryland (it wasn't enough that they got voting rights back at the end of their sentences so the Legislature allowed it while they're on parole. The election of a Republican Governor a couple years ago really shook up the Democratic majority) and Virginia (where the executive order was so sweeping it allows ex-felons convicted of violent crimes, including those involving guns, to regain their right to own firearms. That's turned into a big OOPS for the Governor).
It didn't shake of the majority they gained 7 seats in the HOD.
It is somewhat surprising that the Republicans still win about half of the major elections. Consider the growth of groups that lean towards voting Democrat:
***Illegals
***LGBT
***Living off of government aid
***Minorities
***Females(more of them are exercising their voting rights
***Atheists
***Huge city dwellers
Nice to see they're finally admitting illegals vote.
It is weird that Republicans win frequently considering 45-50 million are non registered as voters, Democrates apparently out number Republicans so apathy ,no shows, and a disconnect from politics? We suspect that within evangelicals as no shows and most are Republicans so here is my profound answer :......I really don't know!
It is late, I am tired. This may make no sense. I don't care that much for either major party....I simply have more conservative values than some. My favorite political expression is "two wings of the same bird of prey."
Guess I got a little spun with this movement of allowing confused men in the ladies room.
It is weird that Republicans win frequently considering 45-50 million are non registered as voters, Democrates apparently out number Republicans so apathy ,no shows, and a disconnect from politics? We suspect that within evangelicals as no shows and most are Republicans so here is my profound answer :......I really don't know!
Maybe, but you have some areas where Democratic registrants do so out of habit but consistently vote Republican. Southern Maryland is one such, many of the old line Democrats are just a bit to the right of Attilla the Hun.
I'll use the turnout statement as an example. Maryland elected a Republican Governor two years ago, The meme was that "turnout for Democrats was down while Republican went up". That was incorrect. The turnout was down across the board but the relative percentage of who voted remained the same, the same number of total voters who were Democrats was roughly the historic number as was the Republican number.
The only takeaway is that Democrats voted for the Republican rather than the supposed-to-be-a-shoo-in Democrat.
Plenty of minority groups still support Republicans. While the list you made is largely Democrat, it's not exclusively Democrat. Plenty of Republicans are atheist, gay, women. Kaitlin Jenner is a Republican.
This is why. While I won't say much about the Republican establishment, the Republican party stands up for individual freedom and small government,
Not really. They stand for the big money donor class. "individual freedom and small government" are just talking points carefully crafted to make sure they get 50+% of the vote while serving the 0.1%. Lots of democrats play that game too of course.
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