What on earth is going on with voters in New York? New York used to be so progressive and now

[akbacchus_BC]

rethugs are winning. I can sleep good tonight and am glad I did not allow the media to influence my thinking. I kept saying that this was not a normal year and there is no way Dems will lose lots of seats as per past status quo. Yes, Dems lost some good seats but they gained some good ones and I am delighted that the disparity for House and Senate Control is minimal. I am still optimistic that Dems will take control.

Good work Democrats and DU. Congratulations and kudos for democracy.

[RandySF]

1. Long Island is a kill zone.

[reymega life]

3. the Hamptons are rich areas nuff said

[akbacchus_BC]

9. Does that mean they have always voted rethug? Guess the rich gets the most tax breaks!

I really don't know if main stream New Yorkers voted rethug especially after the redistricting. It worked out well for Florida though. Thought for sure that Desantis would lose, guess the Latino voters have changed course, One would think that after Destantis bussed their own people in such a callous way, they would have voted for the Dem Rep. Glad that Dems still holding strong.

[democrattotheend]

21. FWIW, Nassau had a bit of a red mirage in 2020

Trump was winning Nassau County at first but Biden ended up winning it 54-44. It's not looking good in some of the House races here, including my own district, but I'm wondering if they have not been called because of that red mirage.

[electric_blue68]

2. Well, NYC remains blue. There are pockets of blue elsewhere but a lot of area outside the major...

cities are red.

We reelected Gov Hochul AND NY AG Letticia James. 👍

[rdchili96]

7. YEs....

Exactly this. If not for the big cities in NY, NY WOULD be a red state. It's been that way for a long time.

[akbacchus_BC]

10. Thank goodness that the Gov and the AG got re-elected. Is Long Island and New Jersey also red?

[electric_blue68]

20. Long Island maybe a mix. NJ is I think still more blue - w some red areas. There are 3 cities close

to NYC - Hoboken, Jersey City & Newark which are blue

[W_HAMILTON]

4. The courts there handicapped our ability to gerrymander the state...

...like Republicans do everywhere else.

Hopefully Democrats there can push to change the law or something to prevent that from happening again and maybe the districts can be redrawn afterwards (I don't know if that would be allowed or not, though).

[akbacchus_BC]

11. Every State has their own policy of redistricting (gerrymandering) as far as I know but what boggles

my mind is how rethugs get away with that re Florida. Why isn't Dems doing the same redistricting to get more votes when they are in power? This two party system is bs and needs to go. The US is so diverse and only one party look out for the middle and working class, how the hell the party that gives tax cuts to millionaires is still popular?

[David__77]

5. I recall two years ago the Biden lead kept growing a lot after Election Day.

I wonder if it has to do with the sequence of vote counting (election day vs early/absentee).

[akbacchus_BC]

12. According to MSNBC, all the votes are counted, whether in person or mail-in and then NBC announces

too close to call or who is the projected winner. That's my understanding and I could be wrong.

[tulipsandroses]

6. Redrawn maps. That seems to have been what was giving republicans and the media fever dreams

About a red wave. We can take heart even with some tough losses, that their gerrymandering, did not work as well as they thought it would.

[akbacchus_BC]

14. The rethugs do everything in their power to gerrymandering voting districts, They are so

despicable and they call themselves Christians. I hope veterans are waking up and seeing how they are two faced. I tuned off CNN and MSNBC for about two weeks leading up to the mid-terms. I just could not stand those arm chair pundits, Glad I did and I am so happy for the outcome of the mid-terms. Would have preferred Dems to get more Seats though.

[jg10003]

8. the has often been a repub majority in the state senate.

[akbacchus_BC]

15. Not in New York as far as I know. NY has always been progressive.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Perhaps NY is starting to get tired of giving their money to socialism sucking moocher Red States?

.


I live in NJ, and that's one of the biggest gripes here. I'm sure California and NY feel the same resentment.

We bail out Florida, Kentucky, West Virginia and a bunch of other Red States for decades. They are never able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and are perpetual moochers. It gets tiring giving away money that could build our own infrastructures only to have ungrateful states fuck the country over year after year. We have no problem sending money for disasters, but got fucked over with Sandy when we finally asked for some.

Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and other fucks purposely keep their states dependent on taxpayer socialism from other states to 'bring home the bacon' and that's what gets them reelected. They sell out their entire state to keep their grifting jobs going. Two jobs fucks over a million.


This will never change because there are more Red States wanting to mooch than Blue States who want to limit their sponging.

After a while, the chronic bleeding starts to drive the self-affecting evil that plagues the Republican party.


Just my two cents.

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[akbacchus_BC]

16. You are educating me about something I never knew. Why would NY and Cali have to provide funds to

red States? Isn't every State responsible for their own finances. Even if New Yorkers are tired of helping other States, why voting rethug is a solution? All I know is if there is a natural disaster, the Federal Government steps in with financial support.

[intheflow]

17. Red states get a LOT more federal money than

blue states well beyond disaster recovery. Or maybe better stated, they spend more federal funds than they put into the federal coffers. Infrastructure, manufacturing, Medicaid/Medicare, unemployment, and welfare… they disproportionately use federal monies.

[Meowmee]

19. It has to be voted on

Some states such as ny and nj give more in fed taxes than they get back. Aid for Sandy was voted down by many r but eventually with pressure from ny and nj it passed. The state senate gained a dem super majority in 2021.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. I suppose that goes two ways, because many of us have seen our investmens and life savings

disappear from Wall-Street and banking shenanigans. And no one seems to ever get punished for it. I know from personal observation that both industries provide a rich living for many who live in the general area. And their attitudes can be downright annoying.

But your point is taken.

[TheBlackAdder]

23. There are multiple exchanges in this country and around the world, not tied to a state entity.

.

Those firms are represented in all 50 states and globally, and that wealth is distributed accordingly.

.

[Corgigal]

18. NYC and Westchester county are blue,

upstate hates NYC and believes all their tax money goes there.

I’m from Westchester, and married into a family in Buffalo . The things I heard.