Skill and Chance
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« on: March 08, 2020, 02:49:50 PM » |
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It is surprising given the relative size of Atlanta. The recipe prior to 2010 and especially prior to 2002 was super rural = Dems hold on longest, which makes me think we have to go further back to answer this question. The real anomaly that needs to be explained is why didn't Reagan and Nixon have any downballot coattails in these areas in the 1972/84 landslides? They really stick out for how little congress/state legislatures shifted. The earlier 55-60% of the NPV blowouts on both sides in the 1920's and 30's did have coattails in much of the country.
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