Message from @[Lex]
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It's more urbanised.
I'm thinking of North Carolina and Florida too.
Even Florida doesn't elect anything worse than a moderate Democrat
FL also is a tossup or do you think it's a shoe-in for DeSantis too?
Because it's NOT.
I marked it as a tilt.
These are highly competitive races now.
That's what "tilt" means
you can't even justify a tilt
no data supports it
just your hunch
Primary polling suggests that DeSantis will do well in many Hispanic areas where Republicans have historically won majorities among nonwhites/Hispanics as recently as the latest Presidential election.
And GOP primary turnout in 2012 was much higher than the Democrats and yet they lost.
Primary turnout isn't a very effective predictor in Florida.
+ Hispanics tend to have very low levels of turnout in primaries.
Blacks remember
+ blacks are at very high turnout levels rn and most FL Democrats are mobilised. I don't think the primary turnout has ever been this close between Democrats and Republicans.
Georgia is only 53% White
Georgia also has a growing Hispanic population also.
>primary turnout in 2012
Did Democrats even know they were holding primaries in 2012?
Bill Nelson also won in 2012 despite much lower primary turnout than his opponent.
Nelson won big too.
This is a fucking midterm, and needless to say, I wasn't speaking only of turnout but of Hispanics voting for DeSantis.
So we have the following factors working against us:
1. Extremely high Democratic turnout
2. Black Democratic nominee to energise blacks even more
3. Midterms with a Republican in office
4. A moderate state with the GOP candidate not viewed as moderate (the same deal with the Democrat opponent)
5. An electorate increasingly swarmed by minority voters
6. 4/5 polls suggesting Gillum will win
A la tossup.
Either way, this is unquestionably a nail-biting election.
Maybe if we're lucky Florence will annihilate the Democratic areas of the east coast and we sweep.
Yep, working as hard as possible to fight all of that
These are all nationwide indicators.
Except 2
The niggers can't beat us if we make up for it with whites
Plus you don't factor anything I cited obviously
Gillum is definitely farther left than DeSantis is farther right thankfully, I'm doing my absolute hardest to drive that home
I factored in all of the indicators working AGAINST us. The ones which favour us are already cited. They collide to form a tossup.
I think of this election as a pure tossup
I am working to get every last vote from every reliable person I know
Every vote counts
2010 census data says that GA is 55% NH white by the way.
And its black population is relatively low due to Hispanics