MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The suburbs abandoned Republicans in 2018, and they might not be coming back.
By Dylan Scott @ Vox.com, Dec. 26
In 2018’s blue wave, it was suburban Republicans who were swept away.
Of 69 suburban districts held by the GOP before the election, just 32 will remain in Republican hands next year, according to an analysis by the Washington Post’s Dan Balz, one of our preeminent political analysts.. This might not be a temporary aberration, either; President Trump has completely overtaken the Republican Party.
“We are facing the prospect of realignment in your Rockefeller Republican districts,” Rep. Ryan Costello, who retired rather than run for reelection again as a Republican in suburban Pennsylvania, told me. “That’s on the table.”
But what exactly do these newly Democratic voters actually want? After speaking with voters, pollsters, and politicians this year, a portrait of these places and people came into focus [....]