Power-Building Strategy: Build support for popular, progressive policies using ballot initiatives. In the Red States section of the 2040 Project, we highlight
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Power-Building Strategy: Use Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards’s leverage to create an additional Black congressional district. As with Governor Beshear’s election in Kentucky that we highlighted yesterday, Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards’s re-election in 2019 was a bright spot for
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Power-Building Strategy: Flip the State Senate blue. Minnesota, like Michigan that we profiled yesterday, was another top Democratic legislative target where we fell short in 2020. Democrats came heartbreakingly close, losing the
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Power-Building Strategy: Flip the Michigan legislature blue. Michigan was a top state legislative target for Democrats in 2020, and pre-election polling showed Democrats in a position to win the four seats they
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Power-Building Strategy: Elect a Democratic governor in 2022. The electoral success of the “moderate” Republican governor lives on in Massachusetts under Charlie Baker. Governor Baker was first elected in 2014 during a
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Power-Building Strategy: Draw an 8-0 Democratic congressional map as part of the redistricting process. Democrats in Maryland: Pass the 8-0 map. Why not? Republicans just made it illegal to give people waiting
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Power-Building Strategy: Pass the National Popular Vote Compact. Three times in American history has a Presidential candidate been elected without winning the popular vote. Each time it has divided the nation and
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Power-Building Strategy: Use Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards’s leverage to create an additional Black congressional district. As with Governor Beshear’s election in Kentucky that we highlighted yesterday, Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards’s
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Power-Building Strategy: Flip KY-6 blue. Kentucky is another state where the Democratic brand is heading in the wrong direction. Despite Mitch McConnell’s unpopularity (even within the state), Amy McGrath’s $100 million couldn’t
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Power-building strategy: Continue to grow with college-educated voters. Kansas, once a Republican bastion, has seen Democratic gains over the last half-decade due to an extremely unpopular Republican agenda and the growing college-educated
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Power-building strategy: Rebuild with non-college white voters. In the Senate section of the 2040 Project we give an overview of the demographics of battleground states, and Iowa has the distinction of having
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Power-Building Strategy: Flip IN-5 blue. Gains among college-educated voters in 2018 powered Democrats to a large congressional majority. In 2020, districts like IN-5, where over 45% of voters are college-educated, were next
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