Posted on 11/05/2020 10:36:18 AM PST by Kaslin
When Arizona, a state that has historically leaned conservative, was won by Joe Biden and now-senator Mark Kelly this week, very few were taken by surprise. Extensive polling indicated Arizona was ripe for swinging liberal and in this instance, at least, the polling was correct.
The question is why? Why has a state that held two elected Republican senators as recently as 2018 and which held a dependable stable of electoral votes for GOP presidential candidates become a purple state on its way to becoming solidly blue? Have Arizona residents suddenly awaked to the idea that liberal policies and doctrines are more sensible than conservative ones? Hardly.
The answer regarding Arizona’s swing lies in its neighbor to the west, California. Since 2012, California has overwhelmingly sent more transplants to Arizona than any other state. When surveyed, escaping Californians cite high taxes, high crime rates, unaffordable housing, out-of-control homelessness, and high unemployment rates as their top reasons for fleeing.
Who is responsible for creating such an alarming living environment within the state? California liberals. A November, 2020 report produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University stated that California has 395,608 regulatory restrictions. The sheer volume and scope of California regulations creates such a compliance nightmare that they kill entire industries, send housing prices to unattainable heights, and restrict even commonplace liberties for which conservative leaning states are known.
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Maybe we need a wall around CA.
Well, Jeff Flake and John McCain were not exactly models of conservatism.
And to put back all those who fled.
When did it become a foregone conclusion Biden won Arizona. Did I sleep through the end count? I didn’t see anything yet since getting up the changes the count from their second dump last night at 1-2AM PST.
Of course it couldn’t be their own kids voting like leftists, as the public schools/academia churns out an endless conga-line of to tens of thousands of young liberals every year.
Jeff Flake played a conservative until he got elected to the senate. McCains beer baron if bought his senate seat and kept him there.
What is done is done. We have most likely lost Georgia and Arizona to blueness, joining Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, to an ever decreasing number of solid red states. A brain dead 77 year old has received 5 million more votes than the absolute best we could put up. I think we are at the moment we all saw coming for the last 30 years. The floodgates of illegal immigration are about to be opened like never before, and most likely sent to settle in Alabama, Ohio, Florida, and any other state this is red.
Trump won AZ no matter what the media claims.
The doom and gloom posts are either psyops or Freepers who have just lived with the GOP rolling over again and again and again and again and it’s weird to have a fighter as President.
Get the hell out of here with that doom and gloom bullshit.
It shouldn’t even be close. Some Californians are conservatives but the overwhelming number who relocated to the Phoenix metro area are flaming leftists who are too dumb to realize their voting patterns is what made California unaffordable. My little neighborhood used to be one of the most conservative now it’s disgustingly leftist.
Then how would conservatives like me and my wife get out? Our votes are needed in AZ.
1. In 2016 Trump received only 49.5% of the votes in AZ. This election 48.1%.
2. Those “Republican” senators were Jeff Flake and John McCain. Both hard core Never Trumpers. Before that? Jon Kyl, another RINO Never Trumper. It’s been decades since AZ had a conservative senator.
Nor was Janet Napolitano in 2003...
So will NC
I am not familiar with Jon Kyle
Of course it couldn’t be their own kids voting like leftists, as the public schools/academia churns out an endless conga-line of to tens of thousands of young liberals every year.
See, it’s much easier to blame some other guy...Some outsider or someone from out of state....It’s much easier to swallow.
Some happened to our area in Texas. We have them coming from both sides of the country. Now our schools and universities are pumping out leftists as well as the coastal immigrants. I can’t believe how fast it has happened.
You are painting with a very big brush. Just like Biden when he said, “If you vote for Trump you ain’t black.”
Look at the electoral map of CA. There is a whole lot of red there. The large cities of LA and the SF Bay Area carry the vote for CA. Just like the large cities of any state.
This is why the Central Valley of CA is losing it right to farm, this is why the CA government is in lockstep with the Dem governor because the larger populations control the whole state, and the government machinery that keeps them locked up (literally, right now because of COVID).
Look up the COVID map in CA and most of the areas that are in lockdown are red areas that are being punished by Grusome Newsome for daring to oppose him.
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