Just a wild idea, but why not deliberately take away some of that sanctity and shift a bit more towards a parliamentary democracy?
Big time. Dont even have to open it to know mine's on there in a big way. My governer even pays people to harass voters. Lot less bannanas than I thought there would be in this joke of a republic.
Thats what happens when your policies incentivize people to move from blue cities to Red States. It just reflect the fact that more people want to live elsewhere than they did in 2010.
That was for a vacant Dem seat, but the congressional district changing b/c of redistricting and the new district will be significantly more left leaning so she isnt liable to stay in congress. But the fact that there was that much of a shift serves as a huge canary in the coalmine especially with an increasingly hispanic demographic one party has traditionally relied upon for electoral success.
The biggest question here is how one defines the Hispanic voting bloc going forward. Will we ethnically break them down and start talking about campaigns targeting hondurans vs mexicans. I think not. They'll be treated as a monolith politically if not academically. I'm also not sure they end up staying with one party or the other. I wouldnt be surprised if they assimilate and adopt the general voting patterns of where they live. Which is to say I wouldn't be surprised if they turned into a swing vote nationally. They're too big a voting bloc for either party to completely ignore. I think the immigration question matters much less to them than the media would have you think. I think their cultural tendencies make democrats' venture into identity politics particularly costly.
