Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.
The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.
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This is a measured take, and I approve of it.
I don't look forward to the catastrophizing takes that will distort this beyond reason, but I want to applaud the distinction (while I can).
Personally- I also think that democracy, as a system of governance, works better when more electoral areas are seen as in play. Mono-party political machines easily become less competent and more corrupt, and parties that write off entire regions are more likely to sacrifice their interests in fundamentally destabilizing ways. I suspect the Texas results will shake a fair deal of state party complacency, and if the Democrats actually want to remain in credible viability range, they'll need to allow policy divergences in the caucus, or just end up wasting resources trying to recreate a context-specific win.
Yes and the increasing Moneyballification of Politics along lines of 'who is actually in play' means that party heartlands no longer even particularly get the machine benefits that they used to for being 100% guaranteed to go whatever way
We used to give outlandish focus to issues in Iowa (E85!) because of its not-a-primary process. Is this that much worse, do you think? I'm not sure, but I see the pattern you're looking at.
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