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Urbacka's avatar

She lost her emergency powers last year and that saved her. She laid low, which seems a winner for politicians, had a huge bank, ran a tremendous number of ads telling voters Dixon was dangerous, and the power of incumbency is huge. In Michigan we've gone Blanchard (dem, 2 terms), Engler (rep, 2 terms), Granholm (dem 2 terms), Snyder (rep, 2 terms) and now Whitmer (dem, 2 terms). I suspect we may see a republican next time.

Dems know how to message better. They supposedly care and that connects. And Dems are in it to win it. They are ruthless.

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Dr. K's avatar

Dems own the female sympathy vote. (Fetterman had a 15% female win according to CBS -- good reason to vote for people is you feel sorry for them, I guess.)

So the solution is to put up even worse, more sympathetic characters? I just do not get it. Of course, Pennsylvania also elected (by a landslide) a candidate that was dead. May say something about that state in general.

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Urbacka's avatar

I don't understand how people think. I know when I look around in my day to day life, there are a lot of stupid people. I don't mean that as an insult, just an observation. And a lot of self importance. It is supposed to impress me that women care about the unfortunate. Only if they are a nun or something. And I am a woman.

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Urbacka's avatar

I wish women didn't have the right to vote. I think the world might work as well and we could still be women. I am impressed with Kari Lake. I think she is unusual for a female politician. She has a commanding presence that isn't just about being itchy.

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SCA's avatar

Societies always grow too big, eventually, to successfully manage the diversity of personality and intelligence any population shows.

It's not so bad to be a stupid plowman if a smart one teaches you how to do the job. You can still have a decent life with little harm to the rest of the village.

Gets worse when you scale up.

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Urbacka's avatar

Like Dr. Ball's Systemantics - systems can operate for a long time in failure mode. I think he observed no complex system designed from scratch can work, it will always fail. By tearing down what we have to replace it, I sense we may test this theory.

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SCA's avatar

Everything in life goes through cycles. We tend to dislike some permanent truths because they're not fixable.

People get rich writing books about the obvious basic workings of the universe and throwing in what they think are startling revelations.

Hives are constructed beautifully. Eventually they get unwieldy and somebody has to move out and start over.

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Natalie's avatar

I don't know about that. Proposal 2 passed, which means the Michigan Constitution now mandates no voter ID, drop boxes, and all manner of election-stealing mechanisms. It just got much harder for a Republican to win in Michigan.

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jim's avatar

this is the go to move in states run by democrats. Get as many votes cast not at the polls as possible. remove any safeguard that makes fraud more difficult. Call any dissent "racist" and "voter suppression". watch weak kneed, feckless republican politicians fall in line.

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Urbacka's avatar

Republicans need to get smart fast.

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0311's avatar

Good luck with that.

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Ruth H's avatar

They don’t message better—they lie and don’t get called out for it. Media and social media protects them. Their caring is always fake and their followers are too ignorant to see it. When abortion is praised as birth control instead of the murder of a child, then these women who vote for ‘their rights’ for abortion instead of their right to motherhood should be pitied.

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jjinUK64's avatar

Good insight, thank you

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Shelle's avatar

Yes, I have thought for a long time that Republicans need to do a better job messaging compassion. I vote Republican and do so out of genuine care for the good of others. I think there are countless Republicans like me. Why can't they do a better job showing how conservative policies help everyone thrive and lift up struggling minorities? Because they actually do!

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