It's North Carolina, according to YouGov.
Now you don't need to click on a Newsweek link and feel dirty.
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Fuck yes!
Would be nice to get North Carolina back into the blue mix again. The state is Gerrymandered SO HARD that the evenly split congressional map is likely to be wiped out this year, even though there are overall fewer Republicans in the state. This shit needs to be stopped.
Cries in Tennessee. specifically Nashville
I absolutely feel you
Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Texas, Florida and Arizona all have very similar struggles. It's insane.
The Koch Brothers started this shit in the 1980’s.
It will take more than memes to break the hold.
Make plans to Vote!!!!!!
Does that mean each little area contributes a point to the states total? Is that for local and national elections?
You mean how gerrymandering works? Kind of.
Essentially, US elections don't go by the populous vote, but rather the number of jurisdictions voting for something. This scenario matters less for the Presidential elections (because of appointed electors), but absolutely affects local>state>congressional elections.
Imagine picking teams in gym class, but one team gets to pick all their players first. That's the TLDR of gerrymandering.
Sorry, I get gerrymandering, I mean how it works in that state specifically for presidential elections.
In North Carolina, there are more registered Democrats than Republicans in the populous. Republicans were able to gerrymander the districts and skew the demographics so much that it's almost impossible for a Democrat to win this year, turning the majority control over the the GOP.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/anatomy-north-carolina-gerrymander
As a SC resident, it is nice to see both neighbor states turn purple, still red here unfortunately, but i am adding my tiny drop of blue paint to the red bucket this November
Love this sentiment. Honestly I never thought I’d see my home of Georgia go blue. 2020 was a powerful reminder that there is still power in our votes. Keep the pressure up until all of these wannabe fascists are gone.
If anyone from Georgia sees this; you can request a mail-in ballot beginning August 20th! It’s my favorite way to vote because it’s easy and comfortable. The fact that it seems to annoy the fascism party is a really nice bonus too.
It's unlikely that Georgia will turn blue; Georgia will likely be purple for a long time to come.
There are a lot of Republicans in Georgia that never liked Trump, and still don't. But Republicans still easily control the House, Senate, and Kemp easily beat Abrams a second time in 2022, when the governors race is a straight popular vote. (What the fuck were Dems thinking in nominating her again, anyways? She lost badly the first time, and lost worse the second. Did they somehow expect a wildly different result?) Ossof and Warnock won originally in part because 'the election was rigged', and so Republicans simply didn't show up to vote in runoff elections.
I do not recommend people use absentee ballots in GA. They're being sharply limited, and you can expect them to be contested, given that power to certify elections has been taken away from the sec. of state. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass to vote in person in metro-Atlanta, but that's a more sure way of getting your vote counted.
Anecdotally, I have not seen any Biden signs or bumper stickers in my area (I'm in Clyde's district), definitely no Harris signs, but most of the pro-Trump stuff I see looks like it's been neglected, e.g., yard signs that are falling down and haven't been re-staked in weeks.
Keep in mind that even in South Carolina, 43% of voters vote blue! Twelve points is a pretty big difference, but there are a lot of Democratic voters even in red states.
Let's keep up the pressure. No matter where you are: blue state, swing state, or red state, every vote matters because we need a decisive victory up and down the ballot (local elections matter more than people realize)
Broke: pick Shapiro to secure Pennsylvania
Woke: pick Tim Walz to secure a 50-state sweep
News like this makes me wonder if David Bowie finally reincarnated somewhere on Earth. Everything went to shit in 2016 after he left for his home planet.
If we get peace in the middle east I'll say Harambe is back.
Let’s fucking go.
Photo: Typical Trump making a poopy in his nappy
Now we're talk'in. This is a hell of a tell.
Kill it Kamala! Wooo!
plates of ketchup get hurled against a wall
"I know! Let's go stump in....checks notes Alabama next!"- Fatass.
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