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June 01, 2024, 07:52:38 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

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 on: Today at 07:52:19 PM 
Started by Tekken_Guy - Last post by Progressive Pessimist
Golden looks unbeatable until he gets a damn good opponent in a Republican wave year way better than 2022.

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 on: Today at 07:50:43 PM 
Started by SnowLabrador - Last post by Progressive Pessimist
We don't know, and by its nature we can't know.

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 on: Today at 07:50:40 PM 
Started by Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden - Last post by Sumner 1868
Knowles from what I know.

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 on: Today at 07:50:32 PM 
Started by Tekken_Guy - Last post by ProgressiveModerate
An important thing to realize about Congressional districts like this is that because the ratio of Hispanic (and other minority) population is already so lopsided towards Hispanics, it doesn't take much of an absolute decline in the white population (or voter) share to lead to a pretty large increase in the ratio of Hispanic population. For example, if the white population share drops from 22% to 20%, that is only an absolute drop of 2% of the population (and also only a 9% proportional decrease in the white population share.

But it increases the ratio of non-white to white population from 3.54 to 1 all the way up to 4 to 1, a 12.8% proportional increase. 12.8% is significantly larger than 9%, and certainly more so than 2% (which might have seemed negligible to a naive view).

And it is the ratio of population that will be reflected in racial vote share (depending on turnout).

Similar logic also applies to turnout. If Hispanic turnout increases, it may actually end up netting Biden more votes, even if it is also true that Trump earns a larger share of the increased Hispanic vote.

So as a result of this, even if Trump does make some decent gains in his share of the Hispanic vote that you might think would result in him winning this sort of district, that may not necessarily be the case as a result of the general long term overall continuing trend of increasing Hispanic/non-white population (and voter) share, - provided at least that Biden continues to win Hispanic voters overall and the magnitude of Trump's Hispanic gains are not too large.

That is all the more true if Biden does relatively well among white voters (though that is open to question, a lot of the national polls that show Trump gains with minority voters have also showed Biden doing well and even making gains among white voters, so if you believe the one, you should probably also believe the other as well).

This is a good analysis - one thing I would add is while CA-13 is 65% Hispanic and 22% white as of the 2020 census, in practice, Hispanics may only be a plurality of voters and whites nearly 40% of voters in a normal cycle.

These central valley seats are interesting because they have some of the worst turnout in the Country, and in midterms, even midterms where Democrats are doing well nationally, Democrats always seem to struggle in these seats because of the Hispanic vote dropping off. I think another thing that's not helpful for Democrats is in seats like CA-13 you don't have a significant high-turnout college educated white base - even if white voters are swinging towards Biden nationally, if that swing is disproportionately amongst college educated whites it may not help Biden much here.

If I had to guess, Biden does a bit worse here than 2020 but Trump doesn't flip the district.

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 on: Today at 07:50:17 PM 
Started by Tekken_Guy - Last post by Progressive Pessimist
The debate, Trump's sentencing, his running mate choice, the conventions, bad economic news, whether interest rates decrease or not, and/or a potential Gaza ceasefire.

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 on: Today at 07:48:32 PM 
Started by AGA - Last post by OSR stands with Israel
Explain how Trump can turn the US into a dictatorship when:

- Elections are managed at a state level not a federal one

- the Electoral Count Reform act pretty much makes it impossible for congress to throw out Electoral votes

- The US Constitution unlike Hungary is almost impossible to change

- There are midterms every two years

OSR as a police dispatcher:

OSR: "911, what's your emergency?"

Caller: "Help! Someone's trying to rob the bank!"

OSR: "What? That's ridiculous. Explain how someone could be robbing the bank when armed robbery is illegal."

Except I mentioned the stopping mechanism to any potential dictatorship.

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 on: Today at 07:48:26 PM 
Started by John Dule - Last post by Progressive Pessimist
I just watched 'Madame Web.' I was ironically enjoying it, and finding it more meme-worthy than 'Morbius,' up until the diner scene. Then it was just excruciating. The acting, dialogue, editing, and just plain stupid dullness with a nearly two hour runtime was even too much for me. The worst was the overly long scene of Madame Web instructing the three girls to do CPR in detail. It might have been the least riveting scene in film history.

I watched it with my dog and pig, and am currently awaiting trial for animal abuse.

It's the worst mainstream movie of the 2020s so far, easily.

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 on: Today at 07:47:29 PM 
Started by Woody - Last post by Steve from Lambeth
It's cute that the blue avatars are still under the illusion that rank-and-file Democrats are giving a crap about Hunter Biden.
The average Democrat thinks Hunter Biden is a good man. The average Republican disagrees.

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 on: Today at 07:47:18 PM 
Started by Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon - Last post by West_Midlander

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 on: Today at 07:47:03 PM 
Started by JMT - Last post by Frodo
    Welp, now I need to find a new favorite Senate Democrat.

I was about to suggest Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania until I found this article from two years ago:

In shift, Sen. Bob Casey to vote yes on Democrats’ abortion legislation

Yeah, it looks like you're out of luck.  He is definitely not his father.

     I said that partly in jest because I knew that was the case. It's a bit cliche to say, but lawmakers are way more uniform than they used to be. Genuine blue dogs haven't meaningfully existed in many years, and Manchin wasn't really one of those but even what he was is quite a bit outside the Overton Window of elected Democrats c.2024.

There's still the House, though.  Are there any Democrats there that catches your eye?  Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, perhaps?

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