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The New York Times says 2019 election results “reflected the country’s increasingly contentious politics and widening rural-urban divide.” Pundits clamor to claim what the results in Kentucky, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Alabama portend for President Trump’s reelection hopes. Bill Whittle Now with Scott Ott reviews what the 2019 results really mean for Trump 2020.
NOTE: Scott Ott apologizes for his off-the-cuff revisionist history in this episode. Elbridge Gerry was actually a Governor, not a representative, who oversaw the redistricting effort that produced, among other things, a congressional district that one newspaper editor thought looked like a salamander, giving rise to the term “gerrymander”. [Stay tuned for Scott Ott’s forthcoming podcast — Mostly True History — available exclusively for Microsoft Zune.]
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7 replies on “What 2019 Election Results Really Mean for Trump 2020”
That was so cool, Scott! I live in a gerrymandered district. It makes my vote completely superfluous. At least I know now what it means!
Here’s a solution to get rid of gerrmandering: The borders of all districts must be made of not more than eight straight line segments except where they abut the state border. The state border shall count as one line segment, even where it is not straight. All districts must have equal population (or reasonably equal according to some pre-established standard).
The collar districts (in Wisconsin we have collar counties, aka WOW counties [Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington] which surround Milwaukee) suffer from the same problems that doomed Colorado and partially Oregon and Washingtion: liberals moving out of the cesspits they dug into better areas. As urban sprawl created suburbs around the cities the dependent minded people kept voting for Democrats until they took over.
Virginia’s now infected with the cancer of DC to a probably fatal level. I don’t know enough about Kentucky but if it is anything like Wisconsin you probably have a couple large cities rife with leftist corruption slowly dominating the state.
Here in VA, they have already announced the top two legislative priorities. They are, to no one’s surprise, Gun Right Restrictions (sometimes called Gun Control) and Abortion as late as you want. Perhaps limited to just after birth, though that is not necessarily guaranteed.
I live very near to Kentucky so I hear a lot about the race there. New year made a promise that one of the first thing he will do is give all felons the right to vote. Recount is going on right now. I expect Bevin will lose though.
The Republican party so called elite are not even good Rinos. For almost all of my life since I have been aware of politics, the typical Republican politician desperately wants the Democrats to love them and to stop saying bad things about them.
As a consequence they are actually members of the Spelunkers Party rather than the Republican Party. They are much better at caving to the Democrats than fighting for what the Republican Party is reported to stand for. Then work to become better Democrats than the Democrats. A POX on all of the Spelunkers among us!!!!
It’s painful getting a close up and personal look at how the GOP has spent the last decade executing a slow, planned unconditional surrender to The Radical Left. Now I get to watch Dems do to this state what they did to New Jersey, where I grew up. By my reckoning by the time I’m around hitting retirement will be when we hit the tipping point and have to bail on VA.