Interesting note for our Democrat friends: California Ballot Measure Approving Affirmative Action 56% No 44% Yes Florida Ballot Measure Increasing Minimum Wage to $15/hr 39% No 61% Yes Maybe lean into the economic populism a little more and lean out of the culture war.
separate to the topic, Kind of Scary that SS Miller can now run for the Gop and would get very high praises from that base.
California thing was not a culture war, per se, it was trying to erase the last vestige of 90s racist california from the state books. It didn't pass because californias politics are now weird and complicated and 1 party with the factions suspicious of each other, but.. it's a unique situation there. How many voters outside of CA can speak even vaguely knowledgeably about that issue or know who Ward Conerly is (note, he's the Sacramento Clarence Thomas). Less than 1%? As far as the 15, its been part of Bidens plan from the get go and for the last 6 months we have heard national Dems talk about the need to do nothing but kitchen table issues. It's not like Joe got up there and talked about intersectionality. His stump speeches in various rust belt places were all about this kind of thing.
If you like Marvin the Martian but more malevolent and less charismatic he's the candidate for you, but otherwise i don't think his particular set of skills translates very well
^ This dude!!! Such intelligent memes and postings. Its kinda pathetic how much @MojoMan has been neutered
My hope is that dip$hit and the remaining dip$hit deranged loyalists split the GOP in two. The battle for the soul of the party: dip$hit psychos vs regular GOP trying to return to some form of normalcy. This would make it easier for the Dems moving forward.
I don't get your parsing here. It was a bill repealing the ban on affirmative action in the most liberal State in the union and it failed by a large margin. What else is there to glean? That's great, but I'd appreciate the DNC leaning more into it and similar issues.
That it's unique to the politics and history of that state. There's no other large one party states and none of them have a weird 1990s AA ban nor the different ethnic factions that California has, and that extrapolating this out to having something to do with say, Cal Cunningham losing or whatever is kind of odd But they did but no very online people noticed. Twitter Democrats and then the kind of ad buys and actual messages that the party (and affiliated groups) run and test in target matkets are very different things. The kinds of ads the Lincoln project built up and then the kind that (I forget the name) that that big techbro dem superpac ran in TX in a huge blitz in the last week were night and day. Like really bland vanilla pocketbook issue stuff. It maybe even worked?! But Trump activated more as well so... not well enough
I think republicans really like clownish reality TV stars. It wouldn’t surprise me if they go down that road again. One of those Duck Dynasty guys could probably get millions of votes.
Asians as a bloc aren't going to vote for prop 16 esp when there are lawsuits against Ivy Leagues and other private unis for hidden quotas. I don't think Latinos were so gung ho with it as a bloc either. Their admissions numbers are increasing more than "shy" black admissions. Californians also voted against regs for Uber-like "contractors". Harder to explain that one except for the fact that people like their rides cheap and dotcom valuations bubbly w/ a good heap of debt. Rent control also failed, but Newsom spoke heavily against it by claiming it had an unintended effect of stifling new housing development.
Will establishment democrats ever speak up about this and actually put forward measures to update our democracy? This only seems to be an issue raised by dem outsiders, and certainly the only people offering solutions.
