greenforest32
Sr. Member
Posts: 2,625
Political Matrix
E: -7.94, S: -8.43
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« on: June 14, 2012, 07:35:36 PM » |
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« edited: June 14, 2012, 08:07:30 PM by greenforest32 »
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A little on social issues (mostly matching the change in the overall population), not really on economic issues and definitely not anywhere near the extent Republicans have shifted right on both social and economic issues.
As best as I can see it, the D.C. Dems' short-term master electoral plan is status quo on ideology while they:
* Hold the WH in 2012, win it in 2016 & 2020 with Clinton/Cuomo/etc
* Narrowly hold/tie the Senate in 2012/2014 and increase that hold/break the tie in 2016 and on
* Narrowly win/lose the House in Presidential election years (2012/2016/2020) while losing seats in the midterms (2014/2018)
so that in 2022/2024 they will have undone the 5-4 conservative majority on SCOTUS and potentially break the Republicans' gerrymandered hold on the House (FL/OH/PA/TX/NC/etc) while being competitive in new states in the Senate/Presidential map (Arizona, Georgia, Texas?, etc).
This is going to be the most bipartisanly plutocratic decade yet. I'm not looking forward to it.
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