Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in an interview with NBC News that he will encourage progressive voters to still back Democrats on the ticket in November even if moderates are victorious in the primaries.
Maybe that’s why they don’t collect party affiliations. They’d hate to have to publish the fact that TEXAS IS A BLUE STATE.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine is amazing, and has been for a long time. They’ve long ago convinced Texas Democrats that they don’t stand a chance, so they stay home, and like you, convince others to stay home, too.
What you should do, no matter where you are, is commit to voting, and commit to taking another non-voting friend with you. Nag them, hassle them, convince them, whatever it takes. Even if your state has a slight Republican lead, that might be enough to overcome it with new voters.
If nothing else, it reduces their lead, and if that decrease ends up being significant enough, election after election, eventually they lose. Don’t make it easy on them.
Ok just to state a small bit, I don’t have friends in this state. All.of my friends I talk to live elsewhere. It’s something I’m working on, but it’s been a struggle.
As for my state I live in Missouri. According to your site, Missouri is big red. It breaks down like this:
Republican - 2,046,702 - 49.3%
Democrat - 1,386,451 - 33.4%
Independent - 712,355 - 17.2%
Other - 4,949 - 0.1%
You combine the non-Republican numbers and you get 2,103,755 or 50.6%. So yes it might be possible for a Dem to have a slight edge IF they can win over the other two sides. That’s a massive uphill battle considering the people I used to talk to when I worked retail feel the Dems abandon them. The only people still supporting them really are union members and people living in the couple cities. The people outside of the cities that don’t have union jobs never feel heard from Dems and the Republicans play into that hard. Even if the Conservatives don’t actually do anything positive for them, they at least pretend to care in the run up to election whereas the few Dem candidates refuse to touch the smaller areas.
You say that, but you would be surprised at how many states that aren’t as close as they claim. For instance, Texas:
Texas doesn’t collect the party affiliations of their voter registrations, so they have to extrapolate it from voting patterns, which isn’t that hard.
Democratic - 8,278,780 - 46.7%
Republican - 6,586,795 - 37.1%
Independent - 2,881,410 - 16.2%
https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx
(Check your state at the bottom)
Maybe that’s why they don’t collect party affiliations. They’d hate to have to publish the fact that TEXAS IS A BLUE STATE.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine is amazing, and has been for a long time. They’ve long ago convinced Texas Democrats that they don’t stand a chance, so they stay home, and like you, convince others to stay home, too.
What you should do, no matter where you are, is commit to voting, and commit to taking another non-voting friend with you. Nag them, hassle them, convince them, whatever it takes. Even if your state has a slight Republican lead, that might be enough to overcome it with new voters.
If nothing else, it reduces their lead, and if that decrease ends up being significant enough, election after election, eventually they lose. Don’t make it easy on them.
Ok just to state a small bit, I don’t have friends in this state. All.of my friends I talk to live elsewhere. It’s something I’m working on, but it’s been a struggle.
As for my state I live in Missouri. According to your site, Missouri is big red. It breaks down like this:
You combine the non-Republican numbers and you get 2,103,755 or 50.6%. So yes it might be possible for a Dem to have a slight edge IF they can win over the other two sides. That’s a massive uphill battle considering the people I used to talk to when I worked retail feel the Dems abandon them. The only people still supporting them really are union members and people living in the couple cities. The people outside of the cities that don’t have union jobs never feel heard from Dems and the Republicans play into that hard. Even if the Conservatives don’t actually do anything positive for them, they at least pretend to care in the run up to election whereas the few Dem candidates refuse to touch the smaller areas.