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Originally Posted by wittynickname
I'm really curious to see what happens with Texas and Florida as relatively purple states, given what their respective governors have done re: Covid, not to mention what Texas' attack on women's rights will do to get out the blue vote.
Obviously they both lean right, but if these GOP officials stay the course and enough Republican voters die from Covid, those reds could slide further into purple.
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But unfortunately, voters are being so disenfranchised and gerrymandering so common, that even if they can turn the tide for statewide races with pure numbers, the legislatures aren't going to change without a LOT more turnover. We've seen that in some of the upper Midwest states like Wisconsin and Michigan where dems have won statewide races and republicans sabotage the incoming administration.
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Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a slate of bills — passed by Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled legislature — that will curb incoming Democrat governor-elect Tony Evers’s power in office, and potentially make it harder for Democrats to get elected in the future.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...grab-lame-duck
It is really nauseating how toxic the republican party is.