The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case on the abortion pill mifepristone has unnerved Republicans from swing districts.The court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade limited GOP gains in last year’s midterm elections and is expected to again play a major role in next year’s elec…

  • thantik@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Voter suppression and gerrymandering will stop this from actually happening. They’ll become smaller and smaller, and louder and louder.

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      11 months ago

      Except mathematically, you can only gerrymander a given area so much before you start giving your opponent an advantage in other areas & they hit that limit around 2019. Voter suppression isn’t really working for them lately either, going by the last few elections, and the anger regarding this is actually driving more people to the polls.

      Floridian in a blood red county here. My kids & most of their friends are furious at the GOP & can’t wait to vote.

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        11 months ago

        The problem with Florida is that a demographic shift will be tempered by the fact that we import a hell of a lot of angry old people from the rest of the country.

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      11 months ago

      their whole goal atm is to create enough doubt that they can throw the next presidential election to the courts or the house.