2. The State of Democracy After the Midterms (Still bad; Could have been way worse)
Is This Democracy
Is There a Change in American Politics?
One of the surprising things was what seems to be ticket splitting, which I had sort of thought was over. People are willing to sacrifice their own economic well-being for social status. And not only that, we actually saw in the states where they had abortion legislation, the abortion legislation was running way ahead of the Democratic vote. We have a pretty static electorate where neither party can get beyond 47%.
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