One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

[rdean]

The advantage of having a system run by one party is that the results of their efforts are on display for everyone to grade.

That explains the businesses fleeing California for Texas and New York bribing businesses with tax free status to move there. I mean why tax big business when you can just rape the peasants right? No? Wait.....

Fucking liar. Just stop it. And you say people don't like me? Do they know what a liar you are?

The California business exodus myth - Sacramento Business Journal

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Yeah.....except they did none of that.

You're bullshitting, right? You're making a joke.

 

[B. Kidd]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

^^^^^^^^^^

This looks like a total kool-aid overdose........

 

[Stephanie]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

^^^^^^^^^^

This looks like a total kool-aid overdose........

It is so much bull but some will swallow it. I guess they can move to the states all run by Democrats to: Detroit, Baltimore, Calicommiefornia, Illionis.

that is the crap they spread about Republicans. I guess they have a very limited choice of states to go live in . Besides the four I listed above. 18 is run by Democrats.... 31 States in total has Republican governors. holy smoke how did that HAPPEN.

 

[peach174]

The advantage of having a system run by one party is that the results of their efforts are on display for everyone to grade.

That explains the businesses fleeing California for Texas and New York bribing businesses with tax free status to move there. I mean why tax big business when you can just rape the peasants right? No? Wait.....

Fucking liar. Just stop it. And you say people don't like me? Do they know what a liar you are?

The California business exodus myth - Sacramento Business Journal

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Yeah.....except they did none of that.

You're bullshitting, right? You're making a joke.

The Sacramento Business Journal
Really?
That is like the Fox writing a report that the hens are doing just fine and none are missing.
California's Population Is Moving Out
The census bureau says other wise.
About 100,000 more people moved away from California in 2011 than relocated to the Golden State, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The trend can be explained, in part, in monetary terms. Even in an economic boom, the cost of living in California has increased, prompting people to move out, and, in recent years, unemployment in the state has skyrocketed.
The Census Bureau calculates that the most popular destination is Texas (58,992), a state that is luring California companies.

 

[ScienceRocks]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

^^^^^^^^^^

This looks like a total kool-aid overdose........

It is so much bull but some will swallow it. I guess they can move to the states all run by Democrats to: Detroit, Baltimore, Calicommiefornia, Illionis.

that is the crap they spread about Republicans. I guess they have a very limited choice of states to go live in . Besides the four I listed above. 18 is run by Democrats.... 31 States in total has Republican governors. holy smoke how did that HAPPEN.

How exactly does the same not happen when our roads turn to crap, our educational system falls apart and there's no police. You see,,,even those republican governors realize that people need to pay taxes for important services.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

The advantage of having a system run by one party is that the results of their efforts are on display for everyone to grade.

That explains the businesses fleeing California for Texas and New York bribing businesses with tax free status to move there. I mean why tax big business when you can just rape the peasants right? No? Wait.....

Fucking liar. Just stop it. And you say people don't like me? Do they know what a liar you are?

The California business exodus myth - Sacramento Business Journal

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Yeah.....except they did none of that.

You're bullshitting, right? You're making a joke.

The Sacramento Business Journal
Really?
That is like the Fox writing a report that the hens are doing just fine and none are missing.
California's Population Is Moving Out
The census bureau says other wise.
About 100,000 more people moved away from California in 2011 than relocated to the Golden State, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The trend can be explained, in part, in monetary terms. Even in an economic boom, the cost of living in California has increased, prompting people to move out, and, in recent years, unemployment in the state has skyrocketed.
The Census Bureau calculates that the most popular destination is Texas (58,992), a state that is luring California companies.

Thank you for doing my legwork.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

So how do you explain the economic booms of states like Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Arizona, etc?

 

[IronFist]

Looks like liberals are really scared. I can understand them, Trump is getting more and more popular with every passing day and it's not like anyone can stop him. Sorry democrats, your time is running out.

 

[peach174]

The advantage of having a system run by one party is that the results of their efforts are on display for everyone to grade.

That explains the businesses fleeing California for Texas and New York bribing businesses with tax free status to move there. I mean why tax big business when you can just rape the peasants right? No? Wait.....

Fucking liar. Just stop it. And you say people don't like me? Do they know what a liar you are?

The California business exodus myth - Sacramento Business Journal

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Yeah.....except they did none of that.

You're bullshitting, right? You're making a joke.

The Sacramento Business Journal
Really?
That is like the Fox writing a report that the hens are doing just fine and none are missing.
California's Population Is Moving Out
The census bureau says other wise.
About 100,000 more people moved away from California in 2011 than relocated to the Golden State, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The trend can be explained, in part, in monetary terms. Even in an economic boom, the cost of living in California has increased, prompting people to move out, and, in recent years, unemployment in the state has skyrocketed.
The Census Bureau calculates that the most popular destination is Texas (58,992), a state that is luring California companies.

Thank you for doing my legwork.

Your legwork!!
That is my legwork.

 

[peach174]

Looks like liberals are really scared. I can understand them, Trump is getting more and more popular with every passing day and it's not like anyone can stop him. Sorry democrats, your time is running out.

Yep the social libs of the 60 and 70's are getting old and dying off.
They have done so much harm to this country in 45 years.

 

[Stephanie]

This thread was so much FEARmongering and full of lies it's almost funny.

and posted from someone it seems is has been brainwashed in the DNC talking points of OMG THOSE Republicans are so EXTREMIST.

tired of all the dishonesty and lies

what this tells you: is the people in this country is NOT so LIBERAL as the Democrats/leftist want you to BELEIVE. So they now lie about your states

 

[rdean]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Hows Californias bankruptcy going? Damn Republicans really screwed up that state huh?

God you're dumb.
Final Payment Made on California 2004 Economic Recovery Bonds - Over $19 Billion Paid

“More than a decade ago, desperation coupled with fiscal shortsightedness caused Sacramento lawmakers to pass a budget relying heavily on borrowing from the next generation of Californians. To the tune of over $19 billion, Californians since 2004 have endured haircuts on critical public services in order to payoff that debt,” said Chiang.

The 2014 Budget Act provided $1.6 billion from the Budget Stabilization Account so that the recovery bonds could be paid off in the summer of 2015 – one year ahead of the previously scheduled payoff date. Because the debt is being retired earlier, finance officials estimate that the State will save approximately $60 million in debt service costs associated with a longer payoff period.

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Who was president and had been president for years? George W. Bush.

Who was governor? Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Both Republicans.

Who is governor now? Jerry Brown.

Who destroyed the economy of the richest state in the Union?

Who saved the economy of the richest state in the Union?

Look at the dates.

'nuff said!

 

[Stephanie]

well well, LOOKIE what I ran across about the author OF this garbage and it's from his own BLOG

(Herman Schwartz is a constitutional law professor at the American University Washington College of Law. He served as an adviser on constitutional and human rights reforms to many former Soviet republics and former members of the Eastern Bloc. The opinions expressed here are his owns.)

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

The advantage of having a system run by one party is that the results of their efforts are on display for everyone to grade.

That explains the businesses fleeing California for Texas and New York bribing businesses with tax free status to move there. I mean why tax big business when you can just rape the peasants right? No? Wait.....

Fucking liar. Just stop it. And you say people don't like me? Do they know what a liar you are?

The California business exodus myth - Sacramento Business Journal

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Yeah.....except they did none of that.

You're bullshitting, right? You're making a joke.

The Sacramento Business Journal
Really?
That is like the Fox writing a report that the hens are doing just fine and none are missing.
California's Population Is Moving Out
The census bureau says other wise.
About 100,000 more people moved away from California in 2011 than relocated to the Golden State, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The trend can be explained, in part, in monetary terms. Even in an economic boom, the cost of living in California has increased, prompting people to move out, and, in recent years, unemployment in the state has skyrocketed.
The Census Bureau calculates that the most popular destination is Texas (58,992), a state that is luring California companies.

Thank you for doing my legwork.

Your legwork!!
That is my legwork.

That i should have done. I just figured we all knew the details.

 

[The Rabbi]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Wow, lower taxes, less regulation, insuring ballot integrity, eliminating special preferences. Yes, the GOP has turned these places into veritable shitholes! LOL!!

 

[nuhuh]

Looks like liberals are really scared. I can understand them, Trump is getting more and more popular with every passing day and it's not like anyone can stop him. Sorry democrats, your time is running out.

Yep the social libs of the 60 and 70's are getting old and dying off.
They have done so much harm to this country in 45 years.

Persons of both parties die but it seems death is taking more Republicans:

Since the average Republican is significantly older than the average Democrat, far more Republicans than Democrats have died since the 2012 elections. To make matters worse, the GOP is attracting fewer first-time voters. Unless the party is able to make inroads with new voters, or discover a fountain of youth, the GOP’s slow demographic slide will continue election to election. Actuarial tables make that part clear, but just how much of a problem for the GOP is this?

Since it appears that no political data geek keeps track of voters who die between elections, I took it upon myself to do some basic math. And that quick back-of-the-napkin math shows that the trend could have a real effect in certain states, and make a battleground states like Florida and Ohio even harder for the Republican Party to capture.

By combining presidential election exit polls with mortality rates per age group from the U.S. Census Bureau, I calculated that, of the 61 million who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, about 2.75 million will be dead by the 2016 election. President Barack Obama’s voters, of course, will have died too—about 2.3 million of the 66 million who voted for the president won’t make it to 2016 either. That leaves a big gap in between, a difference of roughly 453,000 in favor of the Democrats."


Read more: The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally.

 

[Stephanie]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Wow, lower taxes, less regulation, insuring ballot integrity, eliminating special preferences. Yes, the GOP has turned these places into veritable shitholes! LOL!!

I'm sorry, but I couldn't let all that dishonest BS fly. did you see who the author was I post above. It tells everything we need to know. just amazing

 

[Stephanie]

In 22 States, a Wave of New Voting Restrictions Threatens to Shift Outcomes in Tight Races

The last large-scale push to curb voting access was more than a century ago, after Reconstruction. Until now.

omg, more lies. You need an ID for everything we do in life. Yet you still push this garbage of how asking for people to have an ID to vote is somehow restricting or Oppressing people. that ISN'T flying anymore as you can see with the turnout of Donald Trump. so you all can lay off all the fearmongering. people are SICK AND TIRED of it

 

[LordBrownTrout]

The advantage of having a system run by one party is that the results of their efforts are on display for everyone to grade.

Exactly why people are leaving CA. Liberals have turned it into a shithole.

 

[peach174]

I was talking about the age of the Presidential Candidates.
The Repubs have more in their 40's and 50's.
There is only one Dem Martin O'Malley who is 52.
We have more millennials who are libertarian than social, if you want to go with the voters themselves.