not to mention all the special legislative elections...

Like their state legislature?

yeah

I believe they've flipped 2 seats in the state senate already

Special elections are oddities, though. Whichever party pours as much resources into that one election will win, and since its the only election at that time then there's extra effort in flipping the seat.

for oddities,

the trend has been pretty darn consistent

Yeah, Trump did fire up the Progressive base these past two years.

But they can't commit the effort we've been seeing in special elections to hundreds of elections at once, equally.

Wait

So we flip the entire rust belt

States that have been solid democrat

For basically

100 years

And we need to take them every election now?

We didn't even take MN in 2016?

Trumps approval ratings among whties from WI, PA, and MN are in the crapper

@zakattack04 Do you realize how difficult it was to achieve this?

Decades of building up to it,

and now it will never happen again...

That's my point!

The parties are ever-changing, and Republicans could capture the working class-White vote from Democrats in key states, since Democrats are committed to minority issues more than economic issues.

These states have been solid democrat since 1932!

And all of the sudden

@GavinTheViking If that's going to happen it will be in Minnesota's 8th and 1st congressional districts

We just need to carry them every election to win

There aren't many White Working Class districts held by Democrats anymore

In the Rust Belt there are

I guess there is also WI-03 and IA-02

but the incumbents are popular

also MI-05

Face it

We can't win

(sarcasm)

We just need to start carrying states that have been reliable democrat for 4 times the amount of time most of us have been alive :D

We had a chance to pick up a district in Pennsylvania where Trump won

but then the SC redrew it

lel

They aren't impossible to carry if Trump won (or nearly won) them in 2016.

yes they are

do you know any other republican in the area