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Re:Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on muni... by exporectomy on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:08PM (#27541193)
Couldn't it cause them to vote for different republican candidates? I have a sense that these one-party states must have some internal division within that party, don't they? It seems to be the natural way of humans to always subdivide their homogeneous beliefs and create disagreement.
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Re:Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on muni... by pjc50 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:13PM (#27541259)
Yes, and that would be a significant improvement as it has the potential to break the cycle of needing to hold ever more extreme positions in order to get elected; downballot votes can flow towards the center.
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Re:Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on muni... by Ericson2314 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:49PM (#27541669)
The "wings" of each party --- which is currently an insider baseball phenomenon very hard for voters to follow --- would just have their own parties. So Ohio Republicans would probably continue voting for former republicans, but the menu would be way clearer.
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