I think that you vastly overestimate that. When you look at states like Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, etc., they’re almost overwhelmingly Republican. If elected officials aren’t Republican, they’re often still deeply conservative on social and fiscal issues.
Ossof and Warnock were both elected in 2021; IIRC, both of them had run-off elections, and Republicans didn’t vote because they thought the election was ‘rigged’. Biden was elected because Trump was deeply unpopular; a number of people that had voted for Trump either didn’t vote–esp. because around here it seemed like a foregone conclusion that he’d win again–or switched side in 2020.
OTOH, Kemp wins Governor elections pretty handily, and he’s not exactly a centrist Republican like, say, Mitt Romney was/is. He clobbered Stacy Abrams in 2022, 53% to 46%. That was even stronger than the first time he beat her, in 2018, 50 to 49, and in 2022 she had put in four years of trying to build a stronger ground game.
Is the state gerrymandered all to hell? Oh yeah. But given the results of the last governor’s race, I wouldn’t be looking at Georgia to break Trump.
Ohio here. The vast majority of nonvoters that I’ve met hold generally left-leaning viewpoints. If they were forced to vote, and did even the most basic research, they would overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
That said, I acknowledge that my experiences have a skewed demographic, and may not represent the population as a whole.
Sure, and I don’t hand out with anyone that I know is on the right here in GA either.
It’s esp. maddening because if I talk to people at shooting competitions, we can agree on a lot of the core issues, but then most of them are still blindly following Trump because it’s all feels, no reals.
Former Buckeye here, I agree with you. So many were positive their vote wouldn’t change anything. No amount of encouragement could make them see the power of the large numbers they held.
I hope some type of voting reform can catch on. I think Star, Ranked or anything better, could cause enough curiosity in how it works to encourage more people to register.
I think that you vastly overestimate that. When you look at states like Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, etc., they’re almost overwhelmingly Republican. If elected officials aren’t Republican, they’re often still deeply conservative on social and fiscal issues.
Georgia went for Biden and recently elected two Democratic senators. It is not overwhelmingly Republican.
not sure about the rest you listed because I don’t live there and I don’t pay attention to them
Ossof and Warnock were both elected in 2021; IIRC, both of them had run-off elections, and Republicans didn’t vote because they thought the election was ‘rigged’. Biden was elected because Trump was deeply unpopular; a number of people that had voted for Trump either didn’t vote–esp. because around here it seemed like a foregone conclusion that he’d win again–or switched side in 2020.
OTOH, Kemp wins Governor elections pretty handily, and he’s not exactly a centrist Republican like, say, Mitt Romney was/is. He clobbered Stacy Abrams in 2022, 53% to 46%. That was even stronger than the first time he beat her, in 2018, 50 to 49, and in 2022 she had put in four years of trying to build a stronger ground game.
Is the state gerrymandered all to hell? Oh yeah. But given the results of the last governor’s race, I wouldn’t be looking at Georgia to break Trump.
Ohio here. The vast majority of nonvoters that I’ve met hold generally left-leaning viewpoints. If they were forced to vote, and did even the most basic research, they would overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
That said, I acknowledge that my experiences have a skewed demographic, and may not represent the population as a whole.
Sure, and I don’t hand out with anyone that I know is on the right here in GA either.
It’s esp. maddening because if I talk to people at shooting competitions, we can agree on a lot of the core issues, but then most of them are still blindly following Trump because it’s all feels, no reals.
Former Buckeye here, I agree with you. So many were positive their vote wouldn’t change anything. No amount of encouragement could make them see the power of the large numbers they held.
I hope some type of voting reform can catch on. I think Star, Ranked or anything better, could cause enough curiosity in how it works to encourage more people to register.