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ancianita

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13. Then how do you explain the blue wave of 2018? Remember what that midterm was like?

Reply to andym (Reply #12)

Wed Jun 15, 2022, 02:29 PM

Jun 2022

Recall that isn't the first election cycle in which violence and menace have loomed in the landscape.

https://www.vox.com/midterm-elections/2018/11/7/18068486/midterm-election-2018-results-race-surburb

It's one thing to alter one's enthusiasm and attempts to help Democrats when the landscape changes; it's quite another to succumb to FUD about that landscape and shrink one's enthusiasm and help on a daily basis. So I agree that what the nation needs, as you say, is to compensate with even more "pursuit of truth, facts and clear moral judgements about what will bring the best future for all of us ... "

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Two Americas or "Poll: Half of Americans now predict U.S. may 'cease to be a democracy' someday" [View all] andym Jun 2022 OP

At least half of Republicans don't believe we live in a democracy now. Just ask them Walleye Jun 2022 #1

I've heard folks refer to the USA technically as a republic, but it is a democratic republic andym Jun 2022 #3

They will lecture that we live in a republic not a democracy. Nobody ever asks them to explain furth Walleye Jun 2022 #4

Yes, this! central scrutinizer Jun 2022 #5

They call it fraud. But what they mean is our vote shouldn't count Walleye Jun 2022 #6

I think it is obviously the party who wants all laws like Social Security to sunset after 5 years MiniMe Jun 2022 #2

So the poor and POC are the ones we push to GOTV. ancianita Jun 2022 #9

the half or Republicans who think that believe they and their party will do it RAB910 Jun 2022 #7

One America is still out there: the 7,059,547 who voted with polarized Democrats. ancianita Jun 2022 #8

Apathy could drive the 7M advantage down: Trump inspired tremendous opposition andym Jun 2022 #10

Will it drive it down below 7 M?? Didn't they try that already?? ancianita Jun 2022 #11

Apathy has traditionally been the enemy of both parties in off-year elections andym Jun 2022 #12

Then how do you explain the blue wave of 2018? Remember what that midterm was like? ancianita Jun 2022 #13

Trump (GOP president) was in power in 2017-2020 andym Jun 2022 #14

Trump was 'in power' in 2020, too. How do you explain record breaking votes from both parties ancianita Jun 2022 #15

2020 is an on-year Presidential election, so the off-year/midterm election tendency does not hold andym Jun 2022 #16

Nice formula. But yours doesn't explain two blue waves in a row. nt ancianita Jun 2022 #18

There were not two midterm blue waves in a row. andym Jun 2022 #19

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2022 #20

Can we take a vote on that? gratuitous Jun 2022 #17