Yes, I agree with you about Liz Cheney, but I will shed a tear for my Wyoming friends.
I used to live in Wyoming—went to high school in Riverton and spent 12 years in Laramie—and I have a lot of friends back there. Laramie is the college town, and its county is one of two in the state that vote Democrat. (The other is Teton County, home t…
Yes, I agree with you about Liz Cheney, but I will shed a tear for my Wyoming friends.
I used to live in Wyoming—went to high school in Riverton and spent 12 years in Laramie—and I have a lot of friends back there. Laramie is the college town, and its county is one of two in the state that vote Democrat. (The other is Teton County, home to Jackson and its many rich out-of-staters.)
Living in a state where your vote has never mattered, doesn’t matter, and probably will never matter does funny things to your psyche. I often worry that some of my friends suffer from a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. For this election, I know many Democrats who registered Republican and voted for Liz Cheney: how else to make their vote matter? They were quite shocked to find themselves supporting a Cheney.
I don’t know how common this cross-party voting was overall, but Cheney (28.9%) did less than three points better than Biden in 2020 (26.6%), so the impact was minimal.
It’s always been tough to be a Democratic in an overwhelmingly red state, but MAGA Republicans are a new level of scary. I really feel for my Wyoming friends right now.
Yes, I agree with you about Liz Cheney, but I will shed a tear for my Wyoming friends.
I used to live in Wyoming—went to high school in Riverton and spent 12 years in Laramie—and I have a lot of friends back there. Laramie is the college town, and its county is one of two in the state that vote Democrat. (The other is Teton County, home to Jackson and its many rich out-of-staters.)
Living in a state where your vote has never mattered, doesn’t matter, and probably will never matter does funny things to your psyche. I often worry that some of my friends suffer from a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. For this election, I know many Democrats who registered Republican and voted for Liz Cheney: how else to make their vote matter? They were quite shocked to find themselves supporting a Cheney.
I don’t know how common this cross-party voting was overall, but Cheney (28.9%) did less than three points better than Biden in 2020 (26.6%), so the impact was minimal.
It’s always been tough to be a Democratic in an overwhelmingly red state, but MAGA Republicans are a new level of scary. I really feel for my Wyoming friends right now.