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[Georg Ebner]

Sept 4, 2021 23:34:00 GMT @conservativeestimate said:

Matanuska&Susitna (15% of pop.):



FairBanks-NorthStar (13%):



Kenai-PenInsula (9%):



Juneau (5%):

[Georg Ebner]

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[rcronald]

Sept 6, 2021 18:35:14 GMT @conservativeestimate said:

The GOP spread their support really thin , they should be more then happy redistricting is now and not in 4 years…….
It should also be noted that the geographic advantage the Dems have in Texas in the state house does not extend to the state senate or congressional districts.

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2020 Democratic Senate primary, not 2018

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[Davıd Boothroyd]

Aside from two districts won against the trend in 1992 because incumbents were mired in scandal (and held in 1994 in a Republican landslide), MA-01 was the last Massachussetts district to regularly elect a Republican congressman. Albeit that Silvio Conte was a strongly Liberal Republican.

[rcronald]

Sept 19, 2021 8:58:47 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Aside from two districts won against the trend in 1992 because incumbents were mired in scandal (and held in 1994 in a Republican landslide), MA-01 was the last Massachussetts district to regularly elect a Republican congressman. Albeit that Silvio Conte was a strongly Liberal Republican.

Can you really call Silvio Conte a “Strong Liberal” (in the US sense of the word) when he was opposed to abortion and pork barrel politics?

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Sept 19, 2021 9:12:49 GMT rcronald said:

Sept 19, 2021 8:58:47 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Aside from two districts won against the trend in 1992 because incumbents were mired in scandal (and held in 1994 in a Republican landslide), MA-01 was the last Massachussetts district to regularly elect a Republican congressman. Albeit that Silvio Conte was a strongly Liberal Republican.

Can you really call Silvio Conte a “Strong Liberal” (in the US sense of the word) when he was opposed to abortion and pork barrel politics?

Odd choice of issues to be political markers. Abortion did not become such a sharp dividing line issue until the 1990s after his death. Conte was a Catholic like many Massachussetts residents so his opposition to abortion was no great surprise. Pork barrel politics is an issue across parties - your associating it with being 'Liberal' simply demonstrates your own ultra-Conservative bias.

Silvio Conte's liberalism was marked by his very strong environmentalism, and support for public education. He spoke out against the John Birch Society in 1964, was against banning bussing, supported AIDS research in 1983, and was against the Vietnam war and the Gulf war.

[rcronald]

Sept 19, 2021 9:20:19 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Sept 19, 2021 9:12:49 GMT rcronald said:

Can you really call Silvio Conte a “Strong Liberal” (in the US sense of the word) when he was opposed to abortion and pork barrel politics?

Odd choice of issues to be political markers. Abortion did not become such a sharp dividing line issue until the 1990s after his death. Conte was a Catholic like many Massachussetts residents so his opposition to abortion was no great surprise. Pork barrel politics is an issue across parties - your associating it with being 'Liberal' simply demonstrates your own ultra-Conservative bias.

Silvio Conte's liberalism was marked by his very strong environmentalism, and support for public education. He spoke out against the John Birch Society in 1964, was against banning bussing, supported AIDS research in 1983, and was against the Vietnam war and the Gulf war.

I personally don’t consider abortion to be a political issue but a moral one that should not separate right and left ,the problem is that Americans consider it to be a political one.
Btw, associating pork barrel politics with the left is not about being ‘Ultraconservative” , it is about that most pork barrel projects are usually associated with the left.

[The Bishop]

The point is, as pointed out already, abortion wasn't such a straightforward partisan indicator as it is now even as recently as the 1990s. And to identify "pork barrel politics" with the left is grimly hilarious given that "vote for us if you want anything done for your constituency" is now a central Tory appeal.

[CatholicLeft]

Sept 19, 2021 11:47:32 GMT The Bishop said:

The point is, as pointed out already, abortion wasn't such a straightforward partisan indicator as it is now even as recently as the 1990s. And to identify "pork barrel politics" with the left is grimly hilarious given that "vote for us if you want anything done for your constituency" is now a central Tory appeal.

Also, there are no better pork barrel politicians than the likes of Mitch McConnell.

[CatholicLeft]

Sept 19, 2021 9:58:56 GMT rcronald said:

Sept 19, 2021 9:20:19 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Odd choice of issues to be political markers. Abortion did not become such a sharp dividing line issue until the 1990s after his death. Conte was a Catholic like many Massachussetts residents so his opposition to abortion was no great surprise. Pork barrel politics is an issue across parties - your associating it with being 'Liberal' simply demonstrates your own ultra-Conservative bias.

Silvio Conte's liberalism was marked by his very strong environmentalism, and support for public education. He spoke out against the John Birch Society in 1964, was against banning bussing, supported AIDS research in 1983, and was against the Vietnam war and the Gulf war.

I personally don’t consider abortion to be a political issue but a moral one that should not separate right and left ,the problem is that Americans consider it to be a political one.
Btw, associating pork barrel politics with the left is not about being ‘Ultraconservative” , it is about that most pork barrel projects are usually associated with the left.

My views on the abortion issue are well known and I am certainly on the left of the group who wear the red colours on this site. A lot of the Democratic Party grassroots remain opposed to abortion and it is ironic that it was the fact that the large group of "pro-life" Democrats still in Congress when Barack Obama was first elected ended up being targeted for defeat by the Republicans for voting for the Affordable Care Act, which was an Act some of those defeated thought was too conservative and weak in providing coverage for the poorest. There were quite a large group of these right up to 2010.

[rcronald]

Sept 19, 2021 14:32:16 GMT CatholicLeft said:

Sept 19, 2021 9:58:56 GMT rcronald said:

I personally don’t consider abortion to be a political issue but a moral one that should not separate right and left ,the problem is that Americans consider it to be a political one.
Btw, associating pork barrel politics with the left is not about being ‘Ultraconservative” , it is about that most pork barrel projects are usually associated with the left.

My views on the abortion issue are well known and I am certainly on the left of the group who wear the red colours on this site. A lot of the Democratic Party grassroots remain opposed to abortion and it is ironic that it was the fact that the large group of "pro-life" Democrats still in Congress when Barack Obama was first elected ended up being targeted for defeat by the Republicans for voting for the Affordable Care Act, which was an Act some of those defeated thought was too conservative and weak I providing coverage for the poorest. There were quite a large group of these right up to 2010.

The only hope for religious/morally conflicted leftists today in the US is that moral/social issues obsessed social-liberals lose power within the party, I can see that happening in 20 years but not now.

[Merseymike]

Sept 19, 2021 15:57:47 GMT rcronald said:

Sept 19, 2021 14:32:16 GMT CatholicLeft said:

My views on the abortion issue are well known and I am certainly on the left of the group who wear the red colours on this site. A lot of the Democratic Party grassroots remain opposed to abortion and it is ironic that it was the fact that the large group of "pro-life" Democrats still in Congress when Barack Obama was first elected ended up being targeted for defeat by the Republicans for voting for the Affordable Care Act, which was an Act some of those defeated thought was too conservative and weak I providing coverage for the poorest. There were quite a large group of these right up to 2010.

The only hope for religious/morally conflicted leftists today in the US is that moral/social issues obsessed social-liberals lose power within the party, I can see that happening in 20 years but not now.

That wouldn't make any difference unless the same happens on the right. There are certainly people who are free marketeer and class themselves as both socially and economically liberal. The Goldwater Republicans. But where are they now? Not able to operate in the Republican party any more.

[rcronald]

Sept 19, 2021 16:22:44 GMT Merseymike said:

Sept 19, 2021 15:57:47 GMT rcronald said:

The only hope for religious/morally conflicted leftists today in the US is that moral/social issues obsessed social-liberals lose power within the party, I can see that happening in 20 years but not now.

That wouldn't make any difference unless the same happens on the right. There are certainly people who are free marketeer and class themselves as both socially and economically liberal. The Goldwater Republicans. But where are they now? Not able to operate in the Republican party any more.

Yes, but the demographics of the US are not trending towards that group , economic soft left - social soft right (many of them minority voters) are the group that grows the fastest.