"The Voters Eschewed Extremism on Election Day"

By artappraiser on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 12:01am |

By VERONIQUE DE RUGY | 11.19.2020

Americans are nowhere close to embracing the radical left https://t.co/Lg4aEhsPiz
— reason (@reason) November 19, 2020

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https://reason.com/2020/11/19/the-voters-eschewed-extremism-on-election-day/

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House moderates lost promising new members in swing districts across the country—in New York, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, New Mexico, California—doomed, they assert, by GOP exploitation of progressive enthusiasms for “defunding the police,” “decriminalizing the border,” single-payer healthcare, and democratic socialism.

House majority whip James Clyburn, a key Biden supporter, has been particularly vocal on this point—and with reason. Progressives who thrive in immutably blue urban districts would perish in less hospitable environments. This reality is hardly obscure: Biden carried Nebraska’s generally suburban 2nd Congressional District by 7 points; the Democratic House candidate, a Sanders-style progressive, lost by 5. That 12 percent difference is about running the race your local demographic requires. - Richard North Patterson, The Bulwark

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 2:43am

Trump underperformed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/17/trumps-presidency-republ...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 3:08am

Trump is a wacko "extremist." Many people voted split ticket, they wanted Trump gone but didn't want "librul" Dems in other offices. Also, according to more than one article posted here, many also wanted divided government

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 3:14am

p.s. what appears a moderate Dem to you or me is a "librul" tax-and-spend socialist to a Dominican immigrant small businessman who can't make the payment on his new car if the libruls keep shutting down business and make supportive noises about continuous protesting against police while they have to board up their streetfront windows. You think fixing broken windows and then the plywood is free?

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 3:21am

If the moderate Democrat is seen as a tax and spend "librul", what policies that are not Republican policies will win their votes?

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 8:57am

Aw man, was just there for the graphics.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 8:47am

And I read different about lots of other places, like Philly for one of many examples

Like it or not (and everyone here doesn't) he lost some he disgusted, but then gained others!.Like many Latinos...etc.

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 3:43am

They're not close to embracing "free minds and free markets" either.

by Orion on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 4:39am

Yglesias pointing out inconvenient facts about AOC's door-knocking thingie:

So before the election the quants said foregoing canvassing wouldn’t hurt Biden because it’s a poor use of money anyway.

Downballot Dems decided Biden was wrong and door-knocked anyway. Then Biden ran ahead of them.

And these events somehow proves door-knocking is good? pic.twitter.com/pK79EXN6zP
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/22/2020 - 9:55pm

"The Voters Eschewed Extremism on Election Day"

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