Good question. I don't know. But I know that party coalitions tend to change over time in response to one party becoming too powerful. Of course, we live in really untested political waters now, in terms of the money available, and the makeup of donor constituencies might not match the makeup of voter constituencies, which could push against those same shifts.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit and then they'll start saying they have a mandate from the voters (just like the Rs did) and they'll screw up their majority if a few years. It's a vicious cycle of one party getting in and thinking they can do what they want and forget the other voters that voted against them. They somehow think voters are voting for them when, IMO, a lot of voters are just voting against the other party and want a change. IIRC in 2010 there were several on here saying the Republican party was dead and we know that isn't true but I think some of the politicians think that way too and their arrogance gets them voted out.
What’s the big deal! Democrats have held that seat for years and New York City the same.
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They can't do anything important because they have someone totally incompetent in the lead. Compare what OBama did to help healthcare care get passed as to what Trump did.
I don't think we will know for quite awhile how having more women in office will actually affect policies. My guess is that women might be more willing to actually sit down with the other side to hammer out compromises. I don't think it's a coincidence that Collins, Snowe, and Murkowski are one of the few moderates in the GOP brave enough to stand against Trump. I think health care and gun control would be big issues that women would work together to make some changes. You can't really generalize about women any more than you can men though, obviously. Right now, I'm just looking at some of the individual races and enjoying the irony of the transgender woman beating the author of the bathroom bill and the woman that beat the incumbent male who was so dismissive of the women's marches.
Throughout the Bush 43 administration, CO. insisted that presidents don't matter. Then during the Obama administration CO. insisted that little else mattered. Now during the Trump administration presidents don't matter again. You'd almost think this didn't emerge from some disinterested theory of political science.
This reminds me of a story the late Senator George Mc Govern told about how a women in his state of South Dakota gave him hell in agrocery store in 1980 for voting in favor of the PanamaCanal treaty ,then he noticed that she bought her groceries with food stamps that he had helped make sure she could get!
I believe you are right about Hillary sinking Dems everywhere.In Indiana it should be interesting to see what happens in 2018 without Trump at the top of the ticket on one side,and Hillary at the top for the Democrats.
Virginia is a blue state. New Jersey is too. You'd figure Dems should win in states as blue as Virginia. Gillespie, however, ran a campaign that ignored the issues on which he might have made the election competitive at least. Bad candidate, blue state, lose the Governorship by 8!
Oh I agree they thought the policies were bad. But so did dozens of other GOP who were afraid to go against Trump, hence the stood up against him remark. Word going around was that most everyone knew it was a bad bill, but were afraid to speak out against it and be the target of a Trump tantrum. Not at all sure what you are talking about in "groups of people and personalities" . I'm mainly about policies, which is why I became a Democrat about 20 years ago. Trump is the only personality that would have prevented me from voting for him, even if his policies aligned with mine. Would never vote for a person with his lack of ethics and morals.
Maybe you should actually read what I said....you know comparing how President OBama helped to get bills passed as opposed to how everyone knows Trump doesn't even know what's in a bill? Did you miss that part?
Let's compare the two presidents. Obama did all sorts of good things for the environment and planet earth. Trump has single-handedly taken us back years if not decades and we're now the ONLY country not signing on to the Paris Accords.
