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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Then the democrats should have chosen some candidates and held a primary. They "disenfranchised" themselves. Why? Because they knew to a certainty that any democrat would be defeated in November. And that's EXACTLY what representative democracy entails. THE PEOPLE vote for the candidate that best expresses their views. If 80% of the population identifies with a particular party, that party's candidate wins.
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I always laugh when folks in TV get onto this subject ... like there's some big secret in TV that we all didn't know when we moved here.
IMO, one of the huge reasons for TV's success, is they've created the largest homogenous community in the world.
We're all about the same age. Grew up in similar ways, in the same generation We all come from a reasonably similar socio-economic strata. In spite of some the nitty-gritty, minor disagreements on here (& 1 or 2 well-known contrarians), TV likely has the highest rate of political conservatism in the USA. I haven't looked lately, but I think Registered Republicans probably out-number Democrats, at least 4:1? I suspect actual voting patterns would show an even higher % of Republicans. None of that includes those who spend the majority of their time in TV, but vote elsewhere.
If you don't have an (R) next to your name, you'd have a hard time getting elected Dog Catcher in TV.
I recently had lunch with a friend who's Florida's top Political Consultant. He's directed FL campaigns for Obama, Biden and a zillion lower races. When we got to joking about me living in TV, his response with a laugh was, "we've struggled making to make inroads into The Villages". No kidding.
& truthfully, the vast majority of Villagers bought homes here, specifically because of the socio-economic-political atmosphere, some just don't admit to it.