Message from @FLanon
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Alberta is already under a left-wing Socialist government because the right-wing parties were too busy infighting with their 60+% majority
It's actually a big part of why Trudeau was elected: Conservatives were extremely demoralized by being defeated by a landslide in Alberta.
The right-wing party was able to defeat the moderate "Progressive Conservatives," but the right lost over 20 points overall from all of the infighting, leaving them with a feeble simple majority between both parties--and because Canada's electoral system is a two-party-optimized FPTP system like the USA has...that meant the most united party, the New Democrats, won.
The New Democrats won 40% of the Alberta vote too, which gave them a huge amount of momentum until the CBC--Canada's equivalent of PBS or the BBC--actually began encouraging NDP voters to vote Liberal to stop the Tories from being reelected.
if only Canada had a two-party system
I wish the US actually got involved in foreign internal affairs so we could condemn the CBC for that, or do many things really.
And yeah, Alberta's feuding right-wing parties actually merged in 2017 to prevent another election like that.
Alberta 2019 could be a majority vote for the United Conservatives, which might be the first in recent Canadian history.
Ah, nope, Manitoba has a right-wing majority government as it is.
And so does Saskatchewan.
Alright, I think the best say to determine which party's gonna win which state, we'll have to look at Voter proportions
Number of Self Described & Registered Indepnendents, Democrats, Republicans, etc.
So we can determine which states we can win
where can we find that data
here, I guess
I don't think we've gone in depth of party financials yet
DNC has 6.5 million dollars on hand and are 6.1 million dollars in debt
400k away from insolvency
there could be something to this
In a state this purple with the national consensus (even if it is shrinking) still leaning towards the Dems, I think this is a great sign of things to come.
What state are you referring to?
FL
Oh. I thought Florida had been slowly trending Red
it's referring to the senate election we have which most likely will be current Governor Rick Scott and Senator Bill Nelson
It did in 2016, but that's tricky
Florida is the swingiest swing state ever
But I thought in general the trend at the state and other Federal Government level was towards Republican there. It's a very slow but steady trend because Florida is so divided
FL's R at the state legislature level (so far) but extremely swing in Federal politics
Like it will be a Swing State for a long long time but we aren't losing ground there
Blue counties are getting bluer (Miami)
Red counties are getting redder (Pensacola)
it's extremely hard to tell what Florida will do long term
That is happening every where I tjink
People are self spring
we've got to make the best of it, definitely