Official 2020 US Election: Democratic Party Discussion

[Bofferbrauer2]

haxxiy said:

The Dixiecrats were always a living contradiction that would eventually split off or join the Republicans. Even then, it's amazing some of them were around until a few years ago.

Also, a nice little table I've found:

To think all of them except for perhaps Bloomberg are to the left of what Obama and Hillary Clinton proposed really frames the word "moderate" into perspective. Perhaps it was the very loss of all those Dixiecrats mentioned before that finally allowed the Democratic Party to veer left into a new coallition of voters.

Either that, or it's because Millenials and Gen Z are much more to the left of previous generations and everyone tries to get some of their votes. Boomers won't live forever, after all, and the majority of those vote Republican anyway and X-ers are a toss-up, so without the votes of younger voters the democratic party doesn't have a chance to win right now. And that goes double now that Millenials and Gen Z outnumber Boomers now: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/29/gen-z-millennials-and-gen-x-outvoted-older-generations-in-2018-midterms/

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 23 February 2020