Republicans Are Really, Really Worried About The Suburbs | Talking Points Memo

After a 2018 House loss primarily at the hands of suburban women, Republicans are intensely worried that the trend is continuing in areas of red states that used to be safe holds.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1241530
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I like good news on a Friday morning. Gets the work-weekend off to a good start.

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From before the 2018 midterms:

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Maybe if you cowards would care more about the folks you represent then this thing called Trump you might have fewer worries.

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Worried about the suburbs but not worried enough to change any of the hateful narrative, pass gun laws or anything else that would be helpful to ordinary people. Yep, just stew about the suburbs and try your best to figure where you went wrong.

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Oh my, what happened in 2008? Clearly white men in the throes of economic anxiety blaming Bush for the recession.

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Republicans Are Really, Really Worried About The Suburbs

And vice versa, one hopes.

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Trump if nothing is predictable.
After every incident
He will mouth a few words in front of a teleprompter and then immediately return to divisive screeds
He is now only surrounded by sycophants who keep whispering in his ear "It’s OK Donald they LOOOVE you.
No one left to tell the truth,not that he would listen anyway
News flash republicans
There will be no pivot, especially during infrastructure week

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In and after 2008.

And apparently a college degree made no difference.

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Just be prepared for the Friday afternoon or evening news dump.

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Good; I’m sick of the GOP believing and acting like it’s the majority party.

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Maybe of they stopped supporting the agendas of CEO’s, white supremacists, evilangelicals, and Donald Trump, they could start making some headway

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Well this should help and probably legal in this great state

“Police say the man had tactical weapons,” KY3 reports.
Police say the man walked into the store, grabbed a cart and began pushing it around the store. They say he used his cellphone to record himself walking through the store

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Suburbs are going the way of shopping malls, decayed carcasses of inertia, torpor and lassitude. Why the hell you lead an existence where the only way to do anything at all but mow the lawn requires first making a trip in an automobile is mystifying.

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He was just strolling through Walmart with a cart, his guns and ammo taking photos of himself when he was spotted and fled the store.
All this negative attention to Walmarts may start to drive people away.

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I don’t think they believe it. Otherwise, they would not be doing everything in their power to suppress young and minority voters and gerrymander voting districts.

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The white suburbs have a choice this election vote Democratic or stay home. I am not sure Democrats shouldn’t be a little proactive and at least try to encourage white women to the polls. My fear is Joe Biden and the duck and cover Democratic insiders won’t do enough.

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I’ve never set foot in a Walmart. Personally I try to patronize businesses where I’m required to pay at least 10% more than their competitors. I find it works quite well, at least so far as the humans you rub elbows with while shopping.

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.He’s lucky he’s alive still, to be honest," Lucas tells KY3.

As I said in another thread, he’s lucky he’s white.

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My feet have never been there either. Think from living in the PNW for so long it was about supporting local businesses, farmers, etc. It is too ingrained in me now to change and there’s one about 3 miles away.

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