Posted on 10/06/2020 11:04:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PHOENIX - When Katherine Rutigliano and her husband moved away from San Francisco in 2013, they figured they would never meet a fellow Democrat again.
But housing was affordable around Phoenix. No more cramped condo. No more suffocating mortgage payments. No more tech-boom exhaustion. Everything would be easier for them and their kids in the suburbs - everything, that is, except talking politics with neighbors.
Then came an unexpected visitor at the door. It was a Democratic volunteer rounding up votes ahead of the 2018 Senate election. Rutigliano invited her in and inspected the map on her iPad. She was elated to see all the flashing lights that marked where Democrats lived in her stucco neighborhood on the northern edge of Phoenix.
These San Francisco transplants were not alone.
It was like Christmas, said Rutigliano, 37, a mother of three and trained chef who is now sending out mailers for local Democrats.
Rutigliano didnt realize it, but she had moved her family to what is now the front lines in American politics. Once firmly in Republican control, suburbs like hers are increasingly politically divided - a rare common ground shared by Republicans and Democrats.
As such, they are poised to decide not just who wins the White House this year but also who controls the Senate and the contours of the debate over guns, immigration, work, schools, housing and health care for years to come.
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There will we no red states in ten years..unless democrats wake up....
Early voting starts in TN next Wed Oct 14...
I’m elated...
I get to vote for Donald J Trump for POTUS once again...the 4th time...
:)
Again, why I preach that Electoral College votes should be awarded by Congressional District to lessen the impact of the Metro areas.
If Biden wins, may they lose it all. May they get their payback in spades.
... friends ...
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20 years ago, some folks we know moved from our former rural town to a city for better jobs. 3 years ago, they moved back to the same rural town and describe themselves as *surrounded* to the point where they can’t put up a Trump sign in a town now run by progs w/a predominate R population.
How does that happen? Rs have businesses and most are afraid to get openly political for justified fear of repercussions on their businesses.
One major reason why we moved.
“Theyre like locusts.”
Yes, poor Phoenix. An invasion of San Fransicko locusts. They must wonder what they have done to deserve this punishment.
“Theyre like locusts.”
Yes, poor Phoenix. An invasion of San Fransicko locusts. They must wonder what they have done to deserve this punishment.
Not at least 95 of the other 99 counties in the state.
We make jokes all the time about locusts, but do they know how stupid they sound?
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