In San Antonio, there was a huge blue wave but people voted down every school bond even though the tax increase would have been trival. I worry we are more like the French than we think- people want the government benefits but don’t want to pay taxes. Fixing the country will take shared sacrifice which no one is willing to take on.
In our county in central Illinois, the school board’s 192M referendum passed. Virtually every democrat on the ballot won. Even the married couple who are both under federal indictment. Ours is a one party state. The party that believes in taxing the “evil rich” until they finally succumb and leave.
Yep. And over half of our property taxes go to the schools. And they are the highest taxes in the nation… just mind boggling. I’ll be out of here in five years max.
Memories are short, voters are fickle - and the pendulum will continue to swing until one party or the other finally gets things done. Buckle up for 2008! Sure to be a riveting and contentious Presidential election. Can’t wait to see who throws their hat in the ring.
I think you need some push back on a couple of your points. I think Jackson beating 30 year incumbent Collins by 7 points is about the best you could hope for. Collins remember is several points Bluer than the average Republican Senator. As for El Sayed I am not sure that Stevens had the emotional Fortitude considering her end of race antics to have not imploded. Neither set of Democratic Blocs seemed to have wanted McMorrow who could have been the strongest Candidate of all choices in MI. You are probably right about Flanigan. AS for Prop 40 - the abrasive leader of a SEIU local built this Initiative as much to take Tax reciepts from other labor Units(i.e. Teachers) as to tax Billionaires. It was also sloppily drafted allowing the legislature to modify it with a 2/3s vote - not hard to do in CA. CA passed Prop 3 which made Higher tax rates on the very wealthy perminent on the same Ballot.
The real winners in the midterms are Iran, China, and Russia. The real losers are businesses and workers who bought into the American ‘dream’ , meritocracy, and individual responsibility - and in the end western civilization.
Not normally a conspiracist but am wondering how much the Dems will be able to implant deep-state election trickery into places like Ohio and Texas. Also wondering if any pundit anywhere who calls themselves a serious centrist political observer will acknowledge the role of the media in the blue wave that just washed over most of America.
I don’t understand how Brown is not considered a progressive. Or Talarico. Lots of commentary thst Talarico (and Hinojosa) were too liberal, too progressive for Texas as recently as the spring.
If they are in the same grouping as Hamilton, then you’ve captured the range of 80-90% of the Democratic Party, just excluding the DSA and Sanders endorsed candidates.
But then you have a sample size issue. MI, ME, and MN all have Democratic governors so the anti-incumbent, anti-status quo backlash didn’t only hit Republicans. In MN, a Democratic governance scandal clouds the picture. In ME, a candidate scandal plus facing the best GOP overperforming candidate. In FL, the centrist candidate for Governor also lost - it might be that any underperformance is small and/or that including the 2022 margins would make for a better baseline. MI had a nasty primary that didn’t get healed.
I don’t particularly like those four candidates. And I disagree with some of their positions. But I think it’s unfair to isolate them. Talarico and Brown as far as I can tell are not really more moderate than them. And the ideological gap between Talarico and Nixon is smaller between Talarico and Hamilton.
Even if "governance" and public policy are "products" with a public, shared, aspirational and civilizational character, they are still products. Voters made some of their preferences known. But Baharaeen is almost-certainly correct that the long-term preferences are less clear. "Realignment" was talked about in the context of President Trump's second election. That turns out to have been too broad an interpretation. Voters are political consumers and they just made different choices this time, for reasons of their own that we disrespect or misunderstand at the nation's peril. Rational analysis. Thanks.
In San Antonio, there was a huge blue wave but people voted down every school bond even though the tax increase would have been trival. I worry we are more like the French than we think- people want the government benefits but don’t want to pay taxes. Fixing the country will take shared sacrifice which no one is willing to take on.
In our county in central Illinois, the school board’s 192M referendum passed. Virtually every democrat on the ballot won. Even the married couple who are both under federal indictment. Ours is a one party state. The party that believes in taxing the “evil rich” until they finally succumb and leave.
I have read in IL, nearly 50% of every education dollar goes to education pensions because they were never appropriately funded.
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Yep. And over half of our property taxes go to the schools. And they are the highest taxes in the nation… just mind boggling. I’ll be out of here in five years max.
That is amazing , but like CA, people keep voting for more of the same.
Memories are short, voters are fickle - and the pendulum will continue to swing until one party or the other finally gets things done. Buckle up for 2008! Sure to be a riveting and contentious Presidential election. Can’t wait to see who throws their hat in the ring.
I think you need some push back on a couple of your points. I think Jackson beating 30 year incumbent Collins by 7 points is about the best you could hope for. Collins remember is several points Bluer than the average Republican Senator. As for El Sayed I am not sure that Stevens had the emotional Fortitude considering her end of race antics to have not imploded. Neither set of Democratic Blocs seemed to have wanted McMorrow who could have been the strongest Candidate of all choices in MI. You are probably right about Flanigan. AS for Prop 40 - the abrasive leader of a SEIU local built this Initiative as much to take Tax reciepts from other labor Units(i.e. Teachers) as to tax Billionaires. It was also sloppily drafted allowing the legislature to modify it with a 2/3s vote - not hard to do in CA. CA passed Prop 3 which made Higher tax rates on the very wealthy perminent on the same Ballot.
The real winners in the midterms are Iran, China, and Russia. The real losers are businesses and workers who bought into the American ‘dream’ , meritocracy, and individual responsibility - and in the end western civilization.
Not normally a conspiracist but am wondering how much the Dems will be able to implant deep-state election trickery into places like Ohio and Texas. Also wondering if any pundit anywhere who calls themselves a serious centrist political observer will acknowledge the role of the media in the blue wave that just washed over most of America.
I don’t understand how Brown is not considered a progressive. Or Talarico. Lots of commentary thst Talarico (and Hinojosa) were too liberal, too progressive for Texas as recently as the spring.
If they are in the same grouping as Hamilton, then you’ve captured the range of 80-90% of the Democratic Party, just excluding the DSA and Sanders endorsed candidates.
But then you have a sample size issue. MI, ME, and MN all have Democratic governors so the anti-incumbent, anti-status quo backlash didn’t only hit Republicans. In MN, a Democratic governance scandal clouds the picture. In ME, a candidate scandal plus facing the best GOP overperforming candidate. In FL, the centrist candidate for Governor also lost - it might be that any underperformance is small and/or that including the 2022 margins would make for a better baseline. MI had a nasty primary that didn’t get healed.
I don’t particularly like those four candidates. And I disagree with some of their positions. But I think it’s unfair to isolate them. Talarico and Brown as far as I can tell are not really more moderate than them. And the ideological gap between Talarico and Nixon is smaller between Talarico and Hamilton.
Even if "governance" and public policy are "products" with a public, shared, aspirational and civilizational character, they are still products. Voters made some of their preferences known. But Baharaeen is almost-certainly correct that the long-term preferences are less clear. "Realignment" was talked about in the context of President Trump's second election. That turns out to have been too broad an interpretation. Voters are political consumers and they just made different choices this time, for reasons of their own that we disrespect or misunderstand at the nation's peril. Rational analysis. Thanks.