Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Why Democrats (not candidates) need to STOP ignoring and/or demonizing rural voters... [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)My county and the two red surrounding counties is a case in point. The entire area is light red politically. It went for Trump. One of the four county complex is deep blue, it went for Hillary and inact liberal policies within it's borders, it is also the richest county in the complex. My county has many cultural events and the republicans here are mostly unthinking oldline republicans from the Ike era, passed down through generations and Reagan. Republicans outnumber Democrats in my county around 60-40, but Independents are almost as large as Democrats in registration. The county used to be really, really republican. A big name Democrat with a good message can come to this area and pull in a lot of votes that are given up on with our party's big Florida cities campaign strategy. We don't need to win counties like mine, just hold down the republican's margin of victory, if we do that statewide in red counties, we win pretty handily. President Obama won Florida twice, people seem to forget that as they trip over themselves to call the state lost to Democrats.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden