Posted on 09/14/2022 6:52:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
While I don’t see a victory here, is 13 points in CT a “wide lead?”
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Under 50 still means you are vulnerable.
For the votes that are not fraud it is all about money. Many now vote solely for the prince who will give out more free things, i.e. more government handouts.
People know senior politicians get more handouts from the trough.
“Why are these Northeast states so liberal? Can someone explain? And I am being serious. I have never spent time up there.”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I was born and raised in Upstate NY, and now reside south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Big, Liberal government has quite a gravy train of money flowing into these states. Lots of government workers, big banks, tech, universities, prisons, schools, media. They’ve carefully managed to keep the scales tipped in favor of the Left.
The lies spread by the media and academia keep the proletariat in line.
So, put all together, with vote counting corruption as well, that gets them to 50%+ of the votes.
What’s more important is that Blumenthal is under 50% in a liberal Emerson poll. I’d like to see what Baris has to say. Since you know him as well as you do perhaps you could give him a call to handicap this thing.
They are probably swayed by his Vietnam stories. /sarc
“Why are these Northeast states so liberal? Can someone explain?”
I have lived in CT much of my life—and live there now. My small town is conservative Republican.
The cities and Fairfield County are where the “big numbers” are.
The cities have some of the worst ghettos in the country—so of course they are Democratic strongholds.
The wealthy suburbs have been well described by others.
What has not been fully discussed on this thread is a culture of corruption that pervades all of the large institutions in the state.
The “rulers and shakers” are totally dependent on the Federal trough—defense contractors, universities and public education, hospitals and other health care facilities are big players.
They want to keep the gravy train flowing.
The other reason is a historically strong strain of New England Puritanism which automatically gravitates to progressivism once decoupled from religion. This strain of puritanical progressivism is very strong in the NE. A 150 years ago, these people were all abolitionists.
Not saying there’s any chance, but a lib like that, in a state like that, in a poll like that, ought to do better than 49 the September before an election. Cold water on the media narrative about the Dems’ big comeback.
This is even without the ubiquitous Connecticut vote fraud.
It's because New England is an old industrialized area that was very prosperous and this allowed government to grow and grow as the states were awash in money. Thus, they had unions and more welfare spending and over the decades they became entitlement states. Add to that a robust educational infrastructure which morphed into a leftist indoctrination goliath and you end up with stupid masses.
It's true that in much of New England, old industrial cities give a lot of votes to Democrats, but that would only make them like the Rustbelt states further west. The influence of colleges is stronger and hard to get away from. Urbanized states tend to vote Democrat more, and that's especially true if they've largely given up on industry and moved into finance, education, and high tech, as New England largely has.
Massachusetts politics are dominated by Greater Boston and that means by people who graduated from the colleges there. Also, there are the ethnic rivalries that make Massachusetts very liberal. The Irish and other ethnics vote Democrat because they don't like the WASPs. The remaining WASP Yankees vote Democrat because they want the ethnics to be kept under control. It's confusing and confused, but the state lives with it.
Two other points. One, cold places (Russia, Scandinavia, Canada) also tend to support more government, even in rural areas, than places with a more moderate climate. Cold places further west offset this with an independent-minded frontier mentality. New England for the most part doesn't.
Two, there is the lingering influence of the Puritans who liked public affairs to be tidy, controlled, and run by "The Best People." For a long time, this just meant relatively harmless Vermont and Maine Republicans. Now it seems to New Englanders more to mean Democrats. They don't like populist revolts, and that made more of them become Democrats. When states further west and south turned against the Democrats, New England embraced them.
It may be worth noting, though, that New England states can be more or less Puritan. Massachusetts and Vermont are very Puritan and very Democrat and "progressive." Connecticut's a little bit less so. Still very Democrat, but a little more New York-influenced. Rhode Island and New Hampshire don't like Boston and Massachusetts and were settled by people who wanted to escape or didn't much like Bostonians. New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die State" sometimes votes for Republicans. Rhode Island usually doesn't, but it's still more independent-minded than Massachusetts. Maine is a mix, but still strongly Democrat, particularly Southern Maine. Northern Maine went for Trump, but is outvoted.
They love getting lied to and screwed just like so many other idiots in NY, NJ, MASS. etc . Sad state of affairs.
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You know me: I’m all about the voter reg. I don’t know that actual #s but CT is blue, blue, blue. What this means is that low info, part time voters who go to the polls will just automatically pull the D lever. To me, it’s not like a state like NV where, despite Ds having about a 70,000 or so lead, there are enough Is and wavering Ds you can win. Same with MI, even PA, but I’m guessing it’s a 60/40 split in CT if even that good for Rs.
Dick Morris thinks Blumenthal could be beaten, especially if the NRSC (McConnell) were to provide some support.
So we have no chance huh? Cuz Morris is almost always wrong.
Well, Morris is my second favorite show on cable news, behind Maria, who is fabulous.
I usually agree with Tucker, but often his show is calculated to make his audience mad, which I do not find enjoyable. (I already know that our government is infested with treasonous, venal scumbag LIARs. Don’t need to see their lips move.)
Oh, the Toe-sucker is entertaining, but he’s just usually way off on elections.
Baris has a Rumble show now, “Inside the Numbers.” And of course BarnesLaw has his own Rumble show, having moved from Locals.
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