2022 - A Democratic Governor? (Boise, Clark Fork: to live, moving to, party)

[eqttrdr]

Originally Posted by Syringaloid

Exactly lol. Her handful of friends in the statehouse are also crazy including Giddings who is an embarrassment and is an insult to the Air Force.

Boise is looking forward to them all leaving this weeks session (which is supposedly illegal) because they cast such a gloomy cloud over the Statehouse.

McGeachin and Giddings are nasty and so hateful. Little is staying out of the hateful politics and hopefully he does as the election nears. I doubt McGeachin will win, I just don't see the LDS vote going to her. Her groupies seem to be Pentecostal California transplants (most in North Idaho) with issues who in turn have no idea what Idaho is about or what the 'Idaho way' means.

Little will most likely win again unless the Dems can bring someone strong to the ballot.

So a vocal governor who stands up for the people like Desantis in FL isn't a good thing?


Little who rides the middle and plays both sides is better?

[Syringaloid]

Originally Posted by eqttrdr

So a vocal governor who stands up for the people like Desantis in FL isn't a good thing?


Little who rides the middle and plays both sides is better?

Little does need more of a backbone on certain issues, but I wouldn't consider him "middle" at all.

McGeachin is a far right extremist whack job, like Marjorie Taylor Greene whacky. She also doesn't seem very smart either, based on local news interviews and listening to a few of her speeches.
Plus, she believes the Big Lie which discredits her even further. If she were to win, it would be bad for Idaho's economy.

Anyone who mixes guns and the Bible together and hangs out with racist groups isn't right for Idaho.

Idaho needs a governor who listens to both sides of the aisle. McGeachin is polarizing and just wouldn't be a good fit. The Idaho Falls newspaper, where she is from, has also called her out.

[cleosmom]

Originally Posted by Syringaloid

Little does need more of a backbone on certain issues, but I wouldn't consider him "middle" at all.

McGeachin is a far right extremist whack job, like Marjorie Taylor Greene whacky. She also doesn't seem very smart either, based on local news interviews and listening to a few of her speeches.
Plus, she believes the Big Lie which discredits her even further.

What is "The Big Lie"?

[Syringaloid]

Originally Posted by cleosmom

What is "The Big Lie"?

I would assume Fox news has mentioned this on occasion. The term has been used ad nauseam ever since the election and January 6th when his followers terrorized DC.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/polit...ner/index.html

Former President Donald Trump has spent months spreading lies about the 2020 election, which he himself is now calling "THE BIG LIE" as he continues to claim that a massive conspiracy robbed him of a second term.

https://time.com/6112488/trump-2020-...n-republicans/

The Big Lie Has Been Proven False. Republicans Can’t Shake It

[pnwguy2]

Take Trump out of this, and the Republican will still win. Idaho is rock solid Republican right now. (Except for inner city Boise, but that doesn't make up for anything).

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

Take Trump out of this, and the Republican will still win. Idaho is rock solid Republican right now. (Except for inner city Boise, but that doesn't make up for anything).

Yeah- I think so. A few more Democrats may be elected, but the Republicans will still have a big majority for some time to come.

[Syringaloid]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

Take Trump out of this, and the Republican will still win. Idaho is rock solid Republican right now. (Except for inner city Boise, but that doesn't make up for anything).

Most likely a Republican will still win. But, almost the entire city of Boise is Democratic, not just the inner/downtown area. Blaine County and Teton Counties are Democratic as is Moscow, so we usually have Democratic legislators elected from these areas.

Ada County, as of the last presidential election is turning purple and that has the Idaho Republican Party and Tom Loony, er Luna worried. There was only a 4% difference in the votes for Trump and Biden in Ada County.

Biden won Boise by a huge percentage as did Clinton the election prior.

The last election for Gov and Lt. Gov, Paulette Jordan and Kristin Collum beat out Little and McGeachin in Ada County. This is a signal on how the rest of Ada County, outside of Boise, is shifting.

[cleosmom]

Originally Posted by Syringaloid

I would assume Fox news has mentioned this on occasion. The term has been used ad nauseam ever since the election and January 6th when his followers terrorized DC.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/polit...ner/index.html





https://time.com/6112488/trump-2020-...n-republicans/

Thank you for answering my question.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by Syringaloid

Most likely a Republican will still win. But, almost the entire city of Boise is Democratic, not just the inner/downtown area. Blaine County and Teton Counties are Democratic as is Moscow, so we usually have Democratic legislators elected from these areas.

Ada County, as of the last presidential election is turning purple and that has the Idaho Republican Party and Tom Loony, er Luna worried. There was only a 4% difference in the votes for Trump and Biden in Ada County.

Biden won Boise by a huge percentage as did Clinton the election prior.

The last election for Gov and Lt. Gov, Paulette Jordan and Kristin Collum beat out Little and McGeachin in Ada County. This is a signal on how the rest of Ada County, outside of Boise, is shifting.

Yup.
Ada/Boise might be enough to swing the Governor to the Democrats, and possibly 1 or 2 of the other Executive offices.

The last time the Republicans lost their majorities in the State House that I can remember was in the 1970 election, when Cecil Andrus won for the first time.

Back then, Samuelson, the former Guv, had made a mess of things, and the Idaho GOP was solidly on the wrong side of the Vietnam war. The Republicans were playing insider games in their party too, struggling to fill some power gaps. There was as much factionalism then as there is now.

Once the draft lottery was instituted, a lot of voter's kids suddenly lost their exemptions, so that changed the minds of a lot of farmers and all the others whose kids were needed right here, not over in Nam. The lottery also hit the LDS' missionaries hard, too, because all the kids who were planning on going on a mission were suddenly vulnerable to the draft.

The GOP kept their majority in one House, but lost it in the other, and they lost most of the Executive branch that election. The shock to them was so profound the party soon quit playing their games with each other and re-unified. Most of the Democrats that were elected only served one term as a result, but some went on to a second term. Andrus, Echohawk, Evans, and some others.

That flip came after Smiley had been a 3-term Governor and the Legislature had been totally Republican for 20-30 years without any major challenges.

Nixon had won big here in '68, but when he began bombing Cambodia, widening the war, Boise saw the biggest protest march in history (I think). The marchers surrounded the convention center where the GOP state convention was being held and yelled for hours, late into the night.

I can't remember for sure, but the crowd was at least 10,000 or more. They marched in a line that stretched all the way from the Capital to the Red Lion Inn, down at the Garden City city limits. There were smaller local marches in other cities north and south.

There was no violence, but I'm sure it alarmed the big-wigs inside. But not enough to change things before the election.

[pnwguy2]

Idaho politics are becoming more interesting. As the democratic vote increases in the Boise area this could mean some changing shifts. However, the State overall is still strongly republican. The question becomes where does the weigh scale change? I don't think anytime soon, but perhaps in the next 10-20 years.