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Demsrule86

(68,504 posts)
8. Doubtful. Abortion was the issue and we lost
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 05:00 PM
Nov 2022

the house due to gerrymandering. And New York and California fucked up.

NO. We could have held the house if more people voted. A 50% turnout of registered voters is JohnSJ Nov 2022 #1
Totally agree. That plus gerrymandering. Damn cheating GQP. Ninga Nov 2022 #2
You are right, gerrymandering definitely hurt, but we need to have far greater turnouts for all elections, or JohnSJ Nov 2022 #3
Delivering on a popular measure tends to drive more people you want to the polls RAB910 Nov 2022 #4
What popular message is that? The infrastructure bill, student loans, preserving a woman's right to JohnSJ Nov 2022 #5
People in places like NJ and NY are being double taxed thanks to the Republicans RAB910 Nov 2022 #6
The votes were not there, and if those in NY and NJ don't realize that, then they are very naive JohnSJ Nov 2022 #7
Double taxed? inthewind21 Nov 2022 #9
You $100 $7 of those dollars go to state and local taxes. The Republicans tax that $7 dollars you RAB910 Nov 2022 #12
So are sales taxes and gas taxes MichMan Nov 2022 #22
The difference is sales tax is post tax money RAB910 Nov 2022 #24
You never see income that is used to pay for property taxes ? MichMan Nov 2022 #25
Doubtful. Abortion was the issue and we lost Demsrule86 Nov 2022 #8
If we are going to pretend to be perfect and not look for things that could be done better RAB910 Nov 2022 #13
You are talking about a personal issue which was not among any of the reasons given for voting Demsrule86 Nov 2022 #17
Do you think it was even on the polls? RAB910 Nov 2022 #19
I agree Johonny Nov 2022 #10
It only affects a handful of states MichMan Nov 2022 #11
Lots of replies seem to be positioning this as either/or. We should do all of it, of course. Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #14
Was that effort Mad_Machine76 Nov 2022 #15
I am not sure why they didn't get a donr RAB910 Nov 2022 #16
We did extremely well this election iemanja Nov 2022 #18
I am not sure why you are arguing doing the RAB910 Nov 2022 #20
Do you remember that Republicans pitched their package as a tax cut? iemanja Nov 2022 #21
The standard deduction went way up at the same time. MichMan Nov 2022 #23
I think you might be right DFW Nov 2022 #26
Woulda, coulda, shoulda Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2022 #27
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