Matt (zeldatra)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-19 22:41:09 UTC
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@scribus I live in a congressional district that used to split its ballots, Obama won narrowly in 2008, Romney in 2012, and Clinton by 10 points in 2016, with the Republican House candidate winning handily all three of those years as well as every year between (and it was a Republican stronghold before 2008). So the way it USED to be was the congressperson here was a cookie-cutter Republican, but occasionally they’d back Obama (or rebuke Trump) on highly nationalized issues, and that’s how they survived. After 2016 the old Congresswoman got a little comfortable and just became a rank-and-duke Republican... then she lost re-election by 10+ points. Everyone thought it’d be one of the closest races in the country before that - it ended up being one of the first ones called.
