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General Politics / Political Geography & Demographics / Re: What state's borders should be changed?
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on: March 04, 2013, 03:13:21 pm
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Combine ND and SD into Dakota. Merge east Oregon and east Washington into a new state (Lincoln), Merge west Oregon and west Washington into a new state. Split California into north and south.
Move the south border of Colorado slightly south of Santa Fe New Mexico, and line up the north border of Colorado to Utah north border. Move the north Wyoming border, line up with the north/south Dakota border. Combine Nebraska and Kansas as one state.
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Other Elections - Analysis and Discussion / Congressional Elections / Re: 2014 U.S. Senate race projections
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on: January 25, 2013, 06:54:16 pm
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Alaska: Mead Treadwell (R) 49.8% Mark Begich (D) 49.1%
Colorado: Jane Norton (R) 51% Mark Udall (D) 48% Illinois Dick Durbin (D) 64% Joe Walsh (R) 35%
Iowa: Tom Harkin (D) 55% Kim Reynolds (R) 44%
Delaware: Chris Coons (D) 63% Christine O'Donell (R) 36%
Kentucky: Mitch McConell (D) 67% Generic Democratic 32%
Massachusetts: Scott Brown (R) 50% Ed Markey (D) 49%
Minnesota: Al Franken (D) 61% Michele Bachmann (R) 38%
Montana: Steve Daines (R) 51% Max Baucus (D) 48%
New Jersey: Cory Booker (D) 64% Michael Doughty (R) 35%
South Carolina: Tim Scott (R) 77% (unopposed)
Lindsay Graham (R) 67% (unopposed)
Virginia: Mark Warner (D) 57% George Allen (R) 42%
West Virginia: Shelly Moore Capito (R) 53% Jay Rockefeller (D) 46%
John Suthers and Cory Gardner have a better chance beating Udall.
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Presidential Elections - Analysis and Discussion / Presidential Election Trends / Re: Why are the Rockies swinging Dem?
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on: January 11, 2013, 06:05:55 pm
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Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona are still very Republican states, it is similar in the way your map shows parts of Massachusetts trending Republican, it is just because those places are so Democratic to begin with.
Colorado and New Mexico are different stories.
2nd, alot of transplants that move to CO are probably Democrat, and from California and the east coast.
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Presidential Elections - Analysis and Discussion / 2016 U.S. Presidential Election / Re: How can the GOP stop the "lost cause" trends in states?
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on: December 22, 2012, 01:25:42 am
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To an extent, the GOP may have to just brace themselves and wait. Suddenly turning left on immigration probably isn't going to help that much (not that turning left on immigration isn't the right thing to do). Newly immigrated Hispanic-American voters are eventually going to become integrated in American society (perhaps to the point where we won't call them minorities anymore), as well as economically affluent. Once that happens, the GOP will begin to make inroads. As a parallel, just think about how Eastern European immigrants who supported FDR ended up supporting Nixon and Reagan in the 1960s and 1980s.
To the extent that the GOP can do something about the "lost cause," part of the solution would be to stop running bad candidates. We also need reach out to these groups that are supposedly making these states "a lost cause," showing them how and why conservatism is in their best interests (i realize that's a broad statement though).
That's if they want to assimilate with the US. When the 2nd generation or 3rd generation of foreigners speak their native language in public, then it becomes a problem. Secondly, nobody wants a one party ran country, the Democrats won't be in control forever even if the GOP is a lost cause for the next 20 years. See, you are completely and utterly clueless. You probably don't know any Hispanics, do you? My roommate in college, who is of Mexican descent, couldn't speak spanish well at all. At the same time, I bet his grandparents who were the first to move to this country, probably didn't speak english well when they first got here. Speaking your mother tongue does not mean one does not want to assimilate. The Irish, Italians, Polish etc etc etc who moved here back in the day also didn't speak english with each other. As long as you Republicans remain this utterly clueless, you will never win Hispanics OR Asians. You know, the group that makes the most money in this country. You will lose them by landslide margins because your party is full of clueless or just straight up racist individuals. I'm actually half-asian myself, and my mom is pure. She doesn't go off rambling in her native tongue in public and tries to speak English when talking with friends in the same culture. She wasn't even born in the US, but is doing fine now adapting here. No way am I clueless bud, you're being a jerk.
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Presidential Elections - Analysis and Discussion / 2016 U.S. Presidential Election / Re: How can the GOP stop the "lost cause" trends in states?
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on: December 22, 2012, 12:34:39 am
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To an extent, the GOP may have to just brace themselves and wait. Suddenly turning left on immigration probably isn't going to help that much (not that turning left on immigration isn't the right thing to do). Newly immigrated Hispanic-American voters are eventually going to become integrated in American society (perhaps to the point where we won't call them minorities anymore), as well as economically affluent. Once that happens, the GOP will begin to make inroads. As a parallel, just think about how Eastern European immigrants who supported FDR ended up supporting Nixon and Reagan in the 1960s and 1980s.
To the extent that the GOP can do something about the "lost cause," part of the solution would be to stop running bad candidates. We also need reach out to these groups that are supposedly making these states "a lost cause," showing them how and why conservatism is in their best interests (i realize that's a broad statement though).
That's if they want to assimilate with the US. When the 2nd generation or 3rd generation of foreigners speak their native language in public, then it becomes a problem. Secondly, nobody wants a one party ran country, the Democrats won't be in control forever even if the GOP is a lost cause for the next 20 years.
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