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Maybe this trend will be reversed, but for now, the Dems are in full retreat.
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A very legit question. (Granted I posed it.) Outside of a few urban centers, California, and New England the Dems are nowhere. Add that people are leaving California and the North East in droves and one can see the Democratic Party’s problem. They are in danger of becoming the Quebecois Party of the USA. Man, have things changed, and it is largely due to a president that much of America simply doesn’t trust.
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If we're going by pure statewide electoral counts, then yes, the Democratic Party is a regional party. They specialize in the Northeast, Pacific West, and Upper Midwest. Likewise, the Republican Party would also be a regional party that specializes in the Southeast, Great Plains, and Mountain West.
There, everybody's a regional party. Problem solved. Now let's go get pizza or something.
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Outside of a few urban centers, California, and New England the Dems are nowhere.
Yeah, if you didn't count the most populous state in the country, the most densely populated region in the country, and the places where 80% of the American population live*, and I guess northern Minnesota's Iron Range, Republicans got everything locked the hell down.
Not too many years back: many people thought the Repubs were finished, even I had my doubts about them. 2014 things have changed a LOT and, it's the Dems that are having big problems.
Its all about winning elections. I would suggest that republicans have not been very successful at winning elections of late.
Now the right wing will continue to crow about the 2014 senate and house results, but in 2016 the are ten dem and 24 rep senate seats up for grabs. The dems might easily recover the majority in the senate. Especially if the reps nominate another loser for president.
OP, By land mass the BW is not gigantic, but it contains high density, heavy EC states. The Dems have won 5 of the last 6 popular POTUS votes, and won the 2012 cumulative Senate/Congressional vote by 2 million.
I do agree where there are more livestock than people the GOP does well. Last I heard, there has not been a Bison Suffrage movement, though.
Its all about winning elections. I would suggest that republicans have not been very successful at winning elections of late.
Now the right wing will continue to crow about the 2014 senate and house results, but in 2016 the are ten dem and 24 rep senate seats up for grabs. The dems might easily recover the majority in the senate. Especially if the reps nominate another loser for president.
What does it say about a party when they can't even front a candidate who can beat a president that (allegedly) most of America doesn't like?
What does it say about a party when they can't even front a candidate who can beat a president that (allegedly) most of America doesn't like?
This is a bit of a fallacy, Obama was actually still somewhat popular in 2012, at the time of the election he had a net positive approval of +3. It wasn't until last year when all of the lies used to sell Obamacare began to unravel that his approval rating sank to where he's now 10-15 points underwater. If Romney and Obama had been on the ballot last November, Romney would have won.
The topic is whether or not the Democrat party is a "regional" party. The claims lately are that the Republican party is the "regional" party, but the maps prove that the opposite is true.
Neither party is a regional party.
In most places in the U.S., both Republicans and Democrats receive at least 1/3 of the vote.
Its all about winning elections. I would suggest that republicans have not been very successful at winning elections of late.
Hmmm.... Majority in the Senate. Majority in the House. Majority of Governors....... What elections are you watching?
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