Calthrina950
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« on: November 05, 2019, 02:34:26 AM » |
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Romney-Gillibrand and Trump-Schumer voters fit the same profile: white working-class, rural voters who are loyally Republican at the presidential level, but are still liable to voting for Democratic candidates at the statewide level. In 2012, Gillibrand still had something of her Blue Dog reputation from her tenure in the House. Now that she's become a full-blown progressive, much of her appeal to Upstate New York has eroded, which is why she lost many counties in 2018 to Farley that she had carried against Long. Polarization of course, has also had an effect, as NYC has become even more Democratic (if that were even possible), and its suburbs have trended Democratic as well, while most of Upstate has trended Republican.
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