RE: FOX Being Dragged Down By Their Anchor
August 23, 2018 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2018 at 11:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 23, 2018 at 10:04 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I worry about posting things that suggest we're headed for a "blue wave," for fear that doing so will encourage people to be more complacent and not vote like they did in 2016. I don't censor what I post on that account, but I hope Democrats will have learned their lesson from 2016 and not assume a victory. So there's a risk of complacency on both sides, perhaps more substantially with respect to the left.
While the risk is present on both sides...I'll offer this.
Even with voter apathy by the dems..they still carried the popular vote handily. We've reached a point where, by brute force of demographics..a democratic candidate becomes more and more likely to succeed. That's the obvious point of aggressive redistricting and systematic disenfranchisement, and..obliquely, of packing benches. While democratic voter apathy may influence a particular election....the shrinking right cannot afford to add voter apathy to their minority platform problems.
They would cease to be a party that could reliably push a nominee even though they've set the table sideways...and that failure would almost certainly lead to those table tilting measures being eradicated...or worse, set against them.
To illustrate this...I'll point out that by the time of the next presidential election, 2020....a republican nominee has only managed to secure the popular vote once over a span of 27 years....as an incumbent..under a cloud of growing suspicion (after having lost the pop in the election that made him the incumbent, ofc).
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