Message from @Pielover19

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2018-02-16 02:47:28 UTC  

I don't think you understand the potential of Connecticut,

2018-02-16 02:47:43 UTC  

I saw the map you posted

2018-02-16 02:47:53 UTC  

If everything that can flip flips, we can get 40 governer's mansions.

2018-02-16 02:47:57 UTC  

just 1 one more R state senator,

2018-02-16 02:48:17 UTC  

and 7 more R state reps,

2018-02-16 02:48:47 UTC  

and a R governor can redraw the map so an R can win a seat in the US House of Reps

2018-02-16 02:49:13 UTC  

that's of importance, definitely

2018-02-16 02:49:32 UTC  

it'd be great to have a US rep from that state

2018-02-16 02:50:17 UTC  

Connecticut is prime property for expansion.

2018-02-16 02:50:39 UTC  

It's majority white and has quite a lot of working class people.

2018-02-16 02:50:50 UTC  

I think that areas like Connecticut, Delaware, NH, Maine could in a decade or 2 become red states

2018-02-16 02:51:00 UTC  

NH and Maine are swing states already.

2018-02-16 02:51:19 UTC  

it's an ongoing trend, they're the canaries in the coal mine

2018-02-16 02:51:49 UTC  

I think that we'll have the GOP eventually become a big tent party like the dems used to be before the 2000s

2018-02-16 02:52:45 UTC  

The Republicans have taken Dixie from the dems, are taking the rust belt from the dems, and could take the northeast from them eventually.

2018-02-16 02:53:42 UTC  

These are the battle lines for politics in the future, the sun belt may go to the dems eventually.

2018-02-16 02:54:48 UTC  

It depends on our immigration policy.

2018-02-16 02:55:12 UTC  

yeah, we want to have hegemony over there for as long as possible

2018-02-16 02:55:55 UTC  

and I think it's possible to keep it on our side permanently if we make sure to pass the right stuff

2018-02-16 02:56:24 UTC  

If we stopped immigration from Mexico, the south will be red for quite a few decades.

2018-02-16 02:56:43 UTC  

Dixie will be red for the rest of our lives

2018-02-16 02:56:59 UTC  

The sun belt are where the demographic battle lines are

2018-02-16 02:58:09 UTC  

But yeah, I could see Arizona and Texas becoming much more blue if we don't build a wall.

2018-02-16 02:58:18 UTC  

Eh, to me it ends at the eastern border of Texas

2018-02-16 02:58:32 UTC  

then the bible belt starts and so on

2018-02-16 03:01:09 UTC  

Best case scenario for Republicans in the Governer's elections.

2018-02-16 03:02:11 UTC  

Getting back to senatorial runs, apparently the Governor of Maine has flirted with a run multiple times

2018-02-16 03:02:27 UTC  

Paul LePage? He seems to be quite popular, and would definitely make it competitive.

2018-02-16 03:03:08 UTC  

Yeah, definitely, especially since King has the unique issue of the vote split since he's an (I)

2018-02-16 03:03:33 UTC  

Baker? You mean King, right?

2018-02-16 03:03:41 UTC  

lmao forgot his name

2018-02-16 03:03:41 UTC  

You corrected that as soon as I posted.

2018-02-16 03:04:13 UTC  

yeah, but in any case, that's an interesting possibility

2018-02-16 03:04:41 UTC  

LePage has gone back and forth on this for years now, if he decides to run, I think it'd be an easy win

2018-02-16 03:06:11 UTC  

I think Virginia and Maine are unappreciated battlegrounds.

2018-02-16 03:06:30 UTC  

Maybe not VA in my opinion, but definitely Maine

2018-02-16 03:06:46 UTC  

Trump was decently close to winning the state at large in 2016

2018-02-16 03:07:17 UTC  

Corey Stewart can drive up turnout in the rural areas and appeal to Northerners, and if Tim Kaine's creepy behavior towards children is in adds, he could pull off a win.