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Dems were always expected to flip the House this year. The fight is much tighter for the Senate, which the Republicans are still expected to flip given a map that is very favorable to them this year.

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Okay off topic but I had to Google “gubernatorial”. That word looks made up.

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All words are made up.

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I don’t know if I can read, I’ve just memorized a lot of words

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It’s easy to remember cause that’s when we elect the goobers.

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It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

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It is not.

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Yes it is; all words are made up.

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In the case of English, half of them by Shakespeare.

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Everybody just vote. Also, vote in local elections. Rs dominate most local governments and they’re what is allowing this disease to fester.

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They did it to themselves

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Radiohead wrote a song about it a long time ago.

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Old school

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And that’s why it really hurts

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This is old news, that article is from 2016.

No one here is going to defend her or her strategy that famously didn’t work and backfired spectacularly.

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Saying the article is old is like saying don’t bring up Reaganomics… the impacts are still being felt, there’s still relevance.

And I linked it to suggest that these fringe candidates are still being picked and losing, perhaps as a long term effect of the strategy.

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Dems almost won the house on an off year in 2022, there hasn’t been a significant level of gerrymandering between then and now (just standard levels).

How could the democrats loose the house?

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Watch NY Dems fuck it up (again). More seriously I think it’s very likely that the presidency and the house will move in the same direction. Gerrymandering and the electoral college both favor the GOP in the same way. Even in 2016 when Dems won the popular vote by a mile, the GOP still took both the house and the presidency.

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*lose

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No no, the house is too tight.

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Try the back door

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It actually is thanks to the permanent apportionment act of 1929.

The size of Congress needs to increase with the increase in population. But it’s been fixed at 435 for over 100 years even as the population has more than tripled and we’ve added two states.

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Overconfidence in voters leading to low turn out.

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Voter suppression

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