teenagewangst

Very helpful context. While a lot of comments here have brought up points regarding the density of suburbs, I'm not sure they are familiar with East Cleveland or the sort of inner ring suburbs that exist in a less-sprawly city that includes street car suburbs like Shaker Heights and what I think is the densest city between Chicago and NYC in Lakewood.

2 party systems have pros and cons, but when centrists voters leave political parties, it exacerbates the problem instead of addressing it. I'd like to think that participating in party politics doesn't necessarily imply agreement with policies and candidates, but rather would allow for these preferences to be accounted for earlier.