NYT...Suburbs Rebel Against Trump, Threatening Republicans in Congress

[mystery-ak]

Suburbs Rebel Against Trump, Threatening Republicans in Congress

By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTINNOV. 8, 2017

RICHMOND, Va. — The American suburbs appear to be in revolt against President Trump after a muscular coalition of college-educated voters and racial and ethnic minorities on Tuesday dealt the Republican Party a thumping rejection and propelled a diverse class of Democrats into office.

From the tax-obsessed suburbs of New York City to high-tech neighborhoods outside Seattle to the sprawling, polyglot developments of Fairfax and Prince William County, Va., voters shunned Republicans up and down the ballot in off-year elections. Leaders in both parties said the elections amounted to an earsplitting alarm bell for Republicans ahead of the 2018 elections, when the party’s grip on the House of Representatives may hinge on the socially moderate, multiethnic communities surrounding major cities.

“Voters are taking their anger out at the president, and the only way they can do that is by going after Republicans on the ballot,” said Representative Charlie Dent, Republican of Pennsylvania. “If this isn’t a wake-up call, I don’t know what is.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/us/politics/suburbs-revolt-trump-republicans-congress.html

[Free Vulcan]

A nice gloss story that's short on specifics, like turnout, or comparisons to past elections. Very cherry picked and focused on areas that either are or have been shifting blue.

Without more specific info, it's hard to know if it's worrisome or not. If the Dems want to find hope in a few shfiting suburbs, they're going to delude themselves to a big loss in '18.

[dfwgator]

Well if the NYT says it, it must be true.   

[Oceander]

The election results from places like TONH in Nassau County say it’s happening.  It’s happening.  Trump is a colossal millstone around everyone’s neck.

[cato potatoe]

The pubs lost a ton of delegate seats in northern VA.  Something else is happening besides a bad map.

[Frank Cannon]

The election results from places like TONH in Nassau County say it’s happening.  It’s happening.  Trump is a colossal millstone around everyone’s neck.

It couldn't be your precious party could It? No. Never the do nothing party's fault, especially in a state without a serious GOP apparatus. It's got to be Donny.

[skeeter]

Might be true, and it might not.

But I sure won't take this lying rag's word for it.

Besides, given the sequence of political events since 11/16 logic would indicate its the GOPe and their constant fumbling with the agenda Trump won on that has GOP voter turnout depressed. Apparently they'd rather lose than win with an outsider.