Quin_Dub wrote: » Them being Democrat is not the reason they are over-priced (or at least not for the reason you think) , it's because they are successful and as such property prices have sky-rocketed. Those people are moving to Texas to get cheaper housing and Companies are moving to Texas to get cheaper staff as they don't need to pay them as much in Texas because housing is cheaper!!. Having said that , despite being a RED state , house prices in places like Austin have increased significantly in recent years..
Arlo Bitter Wrongdoing wrote: » Well it will be the more extreme one, because of reflexive effects from rom Trump getting in. Just like Trump benefitted from following a black guy. Nothing to foster latent racism than a black president. Hopefully it will be someone whose focus will be on profound global issues like climate change, and hopefully that will be tempered by more moderate ideas about other spcial and economic issues. Otherwise it will just swing bqck further to the right. For someone to succeed based on a climate change platform, the effects of it will need to be getting felt pretty acutely though, so maybe too late anyway.
Jolly Red Giant wrote: » Jaysus - a representative of US corporate financial capital is now regarded as 'on the left' :rolleyes: The world according to Eric
RobertKK wrote: » That is what you are saying. There are a lot moving from San Francisco. A council survey of the San Francisco Bay area found 46% of residents planned on leaving the area soon.http://uk.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-housing-high-cost-residents-leaving-2018-6?r=US&IR=T So Nevada will go more blue too.https://www.ktsa.com/californians-are-moving-to-texas-texans-are-moving-to-san-antonio/ All blue states... Oh look all blue areas again... Oh wow that RobertKK doesn't know what he is talking about...all from blue Democratic areas again... Shock/horror, all coming from Democrat strongholds again... As was saying Iit is people from overpriced Democrat states moving to Texas and into the suburbs of the big Texan cities and turning the state towards being blue.
PopePalpatine wrote: » Good luck with that when you're stuck with a two-party system thanks to FPTP.
Harika wrote: » It's the "who will be next dem president" question. Will a moderate like Joe Biden have more chances, or will it be someone more rubbing like Warren or Sanders. A third party in the US, could have only happened if like a Republican think tank recommended that Bernie went head to head with Clinton and Trump into the elections. That would have killed the Dems and Clintons chances anyway but would have opened the way in 2020.
RobertKK wrote: » Of course Texas will eventually become a blue state, the irony being the red state is very successful and its making Texan cities among the fastest growing cities in the US, so Republicans have made Texas a success and the people moving to Texas - a lot from blue states with problems and they vote Democrat and could end up making a mess of what has worked for Texas.
Arlo Bitter Wrongdoing wrote: » More diverse candidates elected for the dems. Traditional conservatives replaced with far right candidates for the republicans. If both perties continue to move away from the centre, perhaps ground will open up there for a third party.
prawnsambo wrote: » That's the point though. As long as Democrats wear Republican clothes, there's no danger of them getting any real power. The history of Dem presidents with hostile houses of congress is long and distinguished. Can't have them muddying up the waters coming out with policies that contrast them with the GOP and people might actually like.
Eric Cartman wrote: » The problem for the dems is the moderates are being overshadowed by the left who are getting more extreme as time goes on. When people are getting excited about candidates like sanders and ocasio-cortez you have a problem on your hands. The dems would do well to distance themselves from the more fringe elements and only nominate centerist candidates who are palatable to more than college students.
Eric Cartman wrote: » she was always just a terrible candidate. It wasnt her leanings on the left to middle scale, shes just an unlikeable person with a lot of skeletons in the closet.
Bambi wrote: » Worth remembering voters in states with high population density are inevitably going to wind up migrating into states with lower populations. And with that the electoral college goes up the Swanee for Republicans
8-10 wrote: » Didn't work with Hillary though
Peregrinus wrote: » So, what you're saying is, the parts of Texas with Democratic administrations are thriving, and people are fleeing the Republican-run areas and flocking to them?
According to a new report from the real-estate company Redfin, Seattle is the top out-of-state destination for Bay Area residents. Other areas include Sacramento, California; Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; and Las Vegas.
Austin had a lot of interest from Silicon Valley with Houston and Los Angeles a distant second and third. People in Seattle, Dallas, Washington, Chicago, San Diego and New York also took some interest in the capital city.
The top source for newcomers in Dallas is Los Angeles — San Francisco was a distant second. People from Chicago, Seattle, Washington, New York, Austin and Houston were also gawking at Dallas-area photos of front lawns and living rooms
Houston has been another big draw for west coasters. Los Angeles had the most out-of-towners looking around the Bayou City with San Francisco also a distant second. It also had interest from people in Dallas, Washington, Austin, Chicago, New York and Seattle
Austin and Houston were the top sources of people interested in San Antonio with Los Angeles a close third. The Alamo City was also of interest to people in Washington, the Bay Area, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago and San Diego.
rossie1977 wrote: » Doesn't translate much. Dems got destroyed in the house in 2010 and took big losses in Senate yet Obama comfortably won the 2012 presidential election. Problem for the Dems right now is the rift between the progressive and corporate mainstream wings of the parties.
vetinari wrote: » That's a bizarre interpretation for why Californians are moving to Texas. It's for one reason: housing. Cost of housing is sky high in California. That causes people to move to cheaper locations. It's sky high because a lot of people want to live there and locals who block denser housing. NIMBYism regarding denser housing is not a left or right issue. It's pretty universal.
Podge_irl wrote: » Perhaps, it was a massive mistake for the dems to stick with her this long to be honest. I'm not sure it would have made a huge difference in these elections but I think it will have an impact as to how the democrats are perceived in the next two years. Whether she is Speaker for that whole time or passes it on, the Speaker absolutely can not afford to be seen as just an anti-Trump roadblock hellbent on (pointlessly) impeaching him. They need to spend their time on putting forth bills that get killed by the Republicans so that the latter are seen as the problem.
Rhineshark wrote: » In the state he was running, against the incumbent, he actually did very well. You can break it down however you like, expectation and history were against him. Closing that gap in the way he did will have left Cruz a relieved man that he pipped him. The hype was because he was doing so well with the Senate races stacked as they were. (Plus Ted Cruz is impressively unlikable). You were listening to McConnell if you really thought he'd win.
Professor Moriarty wrote: » Indeed. I'm thinking of how Pelosi is seen by many as the de facto Dem equivalent of Trump and how that might have played out in the midterms. Her approval rating is truly awful so if they had someone popular leading the charge things might have gone even better.
RobertKK wrote: » Beto O'Rourke did really badly. I came across this: 2012 Paul Sadler Raised: $705,027 Votes: 3,194,927 $/Vote: $0.22 each Then on to 2018 Beto O'Rourke Raised: $69,240,350+ Votes (11:33pm ET): 3,413,259+ $/Vote: $20.29 each Just an extra 218k votes despite all the hype and spending 98 times as much as the Democrat in 2012 did.
RobertKK wrote: » Yes where people are emigrating to from outside of Texas.
