#partyswitch — Public Fediverse posts

Sinema left the Democratic party. Democratic donors left her too.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/13/kyrsten-sinema-donors-democrats-00126676

#SinemaDemExit #DemocraticDonors #PartySwitch #PoliticalAlignment #CampaignFinancing #DemocratSupport #Politics #News

14/23 #RichardMNixon, the Republican California senator (though born in NY) who had been vice-president under #DwightDEisenhower, ran for president back in 1960, losing to #JFK.

He lost the 1964 nomination to #BarryGoldwater (noted as a significant conservative shift for the Republican party).

Nixon ran again in 1968 and (finally) won — but just barely; to strengthen his administration, he needed an angle, coming up with his #SouthernStrategy.

Nixon strategically powered the #PartySwitch

14/23 #RichardMNixon, the Republican California senator (though born in NY) who had been vice-president under #DwightDEisenhower, ran for president back in 1960, losing to #JFK.

He lost the 1964 nomination to #BarryGoldwater (noted as a significant conservative shift for the Republican party).

Nixon ran again in 1968 and (finally) won — but just barely; to strengthen his administration, he needed an angle, coming up with his #SouthernStrategy.

Nixon strategically powered the #PartySwitch

13/23 #JohnFKennedy, a northern Democrat like FDR, put a southerner (another Texan, #LyndonBJohnson), on his ticket, like FDR, in 1960.

#JFK was assassinated in the south (Dallas). #LBJ assumed presidency.

While Black folks were embracing - that is to say, switching towards - this new, progressive, Democratic Party, Johnson lamented that signing the Civil Rights Act 1964 meant the Democrats would "lose the South for a generation."

OBVIOUSLY, he saw the #PartySwitch happening.

7/21 Election Riot of 1874, Eufala, AL, also known as the Coup of 1874, "while driving away more than 1,000 unarmed black people at the polls. In attacking the #PollingPlace in Spring Hill, the League effectively hijacked the #elections."

Clinton Riot of 1875: "Whites had been attacking Black and White Republicans [and, don't let that trip you up, my next thread is on the #PartySwitch, so stick a pin for now...] in every #election cycle."

"...in EVERY ELECTION CYCLE."

Oy.