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How Democrats won the West
nevadacurrent ^ | 12/29/2022 | JOHN A. TURES

Posted on 12/29/2022 7:06:06 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s win in Nevada guaranteed that Democrats would retain control of the Senate after the 2022 midterm elections. It also confirmed the strength of the Democratic Party in the West.

Since 1992, Democrats have flipped the region away from Republican control, a shift that began with the end of the Cold War and carried through a Pacific Coast economic recession, anti-racism demonstrations and violence in Los Angeles and the area’s increasing diversity.

I am a professor of political science who has published on the subject of critical elections and how regional realignments in voting patterns have had an impact on presidential elections at the national level.

This shift has been particularly obvious during presidential elections. From 1952 to 1988, Republican politicians dominated the West – the 13 states of Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico – in presidential contests, as well as a number of statewide contests. In the presidential elections during those years, Democratic candidates took an average of just 13.9% of the Electoral College votes from those Western states. And in those elections, Democrats received an average of 46.4% of the Western popular vote.

But since 1992, Democrats have won an average of 76% of the Electoral College vote in the West through the 2020 election, with an average of 55% of the two-party vote in those 13 states from the Pacific through the Rockies. Democrats garnered 58% of the Western state vote in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

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KEYWORDS: democrats; elections; johnatures; voterigging; west; won
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Last time CA went red was 1988 was for Bush 41. What a joke.
1 posted on 12/29/2022 7:06:06 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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How the Democrats Globalists Won Stole the West.

What they couldn't take in WWII they took by corrupting their enemies, with open efforts beginning in the 1960s.

2 posted on 12/29/2022 7:09:57 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They were not antiracism ... they were free stuff looting. The flimsy excuse was not the reason.


3 posted on 12/29/2022 7:10:31 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Colorado has gone straight to hell.

4 posted on 12/29/2022 7:10:56 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How Democrats won the West


The same way they won everything else ... cheating


5 posted on 12/29/2022 7:12:27 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They cheated. Any more questions?


6 posted on 12/29/2022 7:12:50 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

California is an oddity in population, saying California is typically Western is like saying saying Florida is typically Southern. Parts of each are, with great exceptions.

The drift of the political spectrum is that more squishy moderates have yielded individual rights because “we have to do something about that. We care and have to show it.” Karens are contagious, and self righteous.


7 posted on 12/29/2022 7:14:03 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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To: HighSierra5

Fake Elections, and Fake Government


8 posted on 12/29/2022 7:14:28 AM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: kiryandil

Yeah. I’m not of this world or government.


9 posted on 12/29/2022 7:15:20 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Every.single.political-scientist.twat loves to expound on grand themes like race, economy, to spin social trends and zeitgeist, etc...

NOT ONE, gets into the complex and hidden machinery of how government printed money and debt interplay with influence peddling, vote-buying and particularly now - how ballots are distributed and counted.

Most historians can speak about Tammany Hall or Huey Long, but no one dares to think that such corruption could be updated and brought into the 21st century.


10 posted on 12/29/2022 7:15:41 AM PST by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Californians migrating to other states and taking their corrosive politics with them.

And so it will be with the illegal invasion.

Want to see America’s future? Look at Venezuela.


11 posted on 12/29/2022 7:16:38 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Demographics.


12 posted on 12/29/2022 7:16:50 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats won because Republicans are effing gutless weenies.


13 posted on 12/29/2022 7:17:40 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am of the belief that the US would look like Florida except for democRAT cheating...


14 posted on 12/29/2022 7:19:52 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Dems: We cheated fair and square!!!)
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To: kiryandil

Fake and criminal syndicate government. Totalitarian in other words.


15 posted on 12/29/2022 7:19:54 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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Want to see America’s future? Look at Venezuela.

And, millions are pouring into this country.

I'm sure they're natural Republicans, right, GOP?

16 posted on 12/29/2022 7:26:41 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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“I’m sure they’re natural Republicans, right, GOP?”

If there was even a hint that the illegals may vote Republican, the Dems would have the border locked down tight.


17 posted on 12/29/2022 7:28:57 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A simple explanation? Democrats are the sugar daddy party. Free things and no law enforcement.


18 posted on 12/29/2022 7:30:50 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: Rurudyne

The author is another propagandist, Nevada and AZ were straight up stolen and he doesn’t even allude to that being a possibility.


19 posted on 12/29/2022 7:30:53 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Voter fraud.


20 posted on 12/29/2022 7:52:29 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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