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To: DIRTYSECRET

There were only 11 tossups this past election.

You don’t win seats on election day. You win them by redistricting.

This requires a GOP Swamp filth type in office for 20 years to agree to let part of his red district to move to a marginal blue area and allow some blue geography into his own district.

He’s been winning by 18%. Now he’ll have to endure 8%, in order to get seats.

Not a single one of these Swamp filth will agree to this with the state party leadership.


3 posted on 12/05/2024 7:14:19 AM PST by Owen
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To: Owen

Ok 11 tossups. How many did we win and should we keep our ammo dry and wait for 2030?


4 posted on 12/05/2024 7:20:03 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Owen
Historically, there would be far more than 11 tossup seats at stake in any given House election cycle. It wasn’t unusual to see 25 or 30 of them.

This all changed in 2018, and it was the direct result of the 2017 GOP tax reform bill that capped state and local tax deductions. This mainly screwed wealthy suburban districts surrounding deep “blue” cities. I lived in one such district at the time, and in 2018 the voters of that district elected a Democrat to Congress for the first time since the Civil War. I don’t live there anymore — partly because I expect it will be a “blue” district for the next 50 years.

21 posted on 12/05/2024 8:30:21 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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