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Progressive Losses Despite Biden's Win

Audie

Audie

Veteran Member
Left Coast said:
Interesting NYT article today on the US election's unexpected results:

Liberals Envisioned a Multiracial Coalition. Voters of Color Had Other Ideas.

Biden's win was not a universal victory for leftists. Here in California, the attempt to overturn our ban on affirmative action failed. Prop 22, which categorizes Lyft and Uber drivers as independent contractors and was strongly campaigned against by progressive activists, passed by a wide margin. A statewide rent control measure also failed.

At the risk of trying to read tea leaves here, I think a few lessons might be learned. For one, minorities are not a monolithic voting bloc and are not as far left as many on both the Right and Left often assume. Second, higher voter turnout doesn't universally help Dems or progressive causes.

Any other lessons to be learned here, from your perspective? Anything that surprised you about results in your area, or the country in general?

Please, let's keep it respectful and free of conspiracy theories.
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Not that I vote but lived for several years among
you, and have tried to know how things are in the US.

It does not surprise me at all that Asians are not all buying into the cant about how Republicans / conservatives are racists.
Democrats and their policies are automatically good for " minorities".

As the younger Corleoni put it, "don't insult my intelligence".
 
Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Wandering Monk said:
In their collective wisdom, Americans voted for divided government. I think it was the best option given the crap candidates we got.

It will be interesting to see how Congressional redistricting works out given the gains by Red in the House (Blue still has the majority there) and Red probably retaining the Senate.
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I would say media played a major role in that division.

The way media worked then and now is striking and not in a good way.
 
Milton Platt

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
Left Coast said:
Interesting NYT article today on the US election's unexpected results:

Liberals Envisioned a Multiracial Coalition. Voters of Color Had Other Ideas.

Biden's win was not a universal victory for leftists. Here in California, the attempt to overturn our ban on affirmative action failed. Prop 22, which categorizes Lyft and Uber drivers as independent contractors and was strongly campaigned against by progressive activists, passed by a wide margin. A statewide rent control measure also failed.

At the risk of trying to read tea leaves here, I think a few lessons might be learned. For one, minorities are not a monolithic voting bloc and are not as far left as many on both the Right and Left often assume. Second, higher voter turnout doesn't universally help Dems or progressive causes.

Any other lessons to be learned here, from your perspective? Anything that surprised you about results in your area, or the country in general?

Please, let's keep it respectful and free of conspiracy theories.
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It was no surprise that Democrats voted en masse, but I did expect more Republicans to desert Trump. Not the party, mind you, just Trump.
 
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