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We are doing it, OP. Texas is about to go purple from all the progressives moving down there. If the GOP loses Texas they lose the country.
Little by little we'll overcome the regressives and move the country into the current century.
This LIBERAL moved to red Texas from blue Baltimore several years back and continue to see positive change in Texas. I’m confident Texas will be blue within a decade.
Why move there? As states become more urban - and they all will - they'll become purple or blue all on their own.
For example, Oklahoma City elected its first Democrat for Congress in decades. It will be interesting to see what Republicans try do about it when its time to recarve the districts.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think this would also apply to many blue states -- that many of these (or at least several of them) would turn red if even 10% more people with a conservative 'mindset' voted.
The bottom line, in my opinion, is that way too few people bother to vote, no matter what their political persuasion is! Often, I think, it is a minority that determine how things are for everyone.
I think you are wrong so I am correcting you as requested.
The reason "conservatives" attempt to suppress the vote (See: Rick Scott in Florida with the Felons and many other examples) is that they know as the voting percentage goes up, their percentage goes down.
This seems to be generally accepted by experts on the matter.
"heading into the 2018 midterms Democrats have a four-point advantage among likely voters — up three points from 2010 — and a 14-point advantage were nonvoters to turn out"
OK, so the turnout was high - and I think the Dems won by almost 8 percentage points:
"Democrats won 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans earned 45.2 percent."
Putting it another way, if we had turnout like other Western Democracies (70 plus percent) or like Australia (90 percent) there wouldn't even be a contest.....
Putting it yet another way - the GOP has zero chance without manipulation and gaming of the system....
Or even a last way - the people of the USA want a more liberal government, it's just that many populations are suppressed in various ways and don't vote.
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