Intentional blue population increases in five red states could
permanently flip the senate and help close the deal on Presidential electoral college votes.
The question is, what will it take to get activists to move
to flippable red states?
I've dug up the results of states where Repubicans won by
small amounts.
The five smallest state margins added up to 149,000 votes to
win statewide elections--either governor or US senator.
The numbers after each state represent how many votes a
statewide senatorial or gubernatorial election was won by in 2018.
South Dakota 12,
Alaska 20,
North Dakota 36,
Iowa 40,
New Hampshire 41,
For a total of 149,000
What if activists from solid blue states could be
incentivized to move to these five states? What might it take to incentivize and
enable them?
Keep in mind that these would not just be voters. They would
be activists who would do get out the vote work to improve turnout and persuade
undecided to vote blue. If we assume
that each person would help increase turnout by just two or three percent it
could make a huge difference, in addition to the actual added blue population.
Let's play with this idea. Start with the 149,000 and add a
10% buffer--to take it up to a rounded 165,000 people.
Let's say they are given $10,000 for moving expenses, and additional
money for an annual salary. If we ballpark the cost at $80,000 including health
insurance, That comes to $6.6 billion.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization (more...)
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