The suburbs abandoned Republicans in 2018, and they might not be coming back.
By Dylan Scott at Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/19/18129448/suburbs-midterms-2018-democrats-republicans-congress
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Suburban voters worry about health care and education. Not immigration.
Suburban voters tend to be better off than the rural Americans traditionally thought of as Trumps base. Immigration, the White Houses big bet in this election, holds less sway over them as a result.
Because they are often better educated, suburban voters tend to have higher incomes and feel more economically secure. Comstocks district, one of the biggest swings on election night, is ranked 18th among 435 House districts in voters with a bachelors degree; the median income is high too, at $120,000. Californias 45th Congressional District in Orange County, which sent a Democrat to Congress for the first time ever, ranks 12th in bachelors degrees and 19th in median income.
Those voters are more comfortable and secure than people in poorer, more rural parts of the country white working-class places where Trump might have won districts that went for Barack Obama before him. The suburbs dont respond to Trumps hardline rhetoric on immigrants and a border wall in the same way rural voters do.
Threats of jobs going overseas, that sweet spot of Republican talking points with more downscale voters, doesnt check the box for these suburban voters, Molly Murphy, another Democratic pollster, said. It just doesnt resonate with what their needs and wants are.
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Seems it is true that the GOP have to get people to vote out of financial anxiety to vote irrationally for them. I wonder how they will spread financial anxiety? Even tougher student loans? Fewer unions?