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Ok, as someone from Colorado, District 4 is super fucking rural... Think 23.3 people per square mile (District 1 is Denver, 4,678 people per square mile). These people are Trump people, and Boebert is a Trump bootlicker, this is not a surprise. She changed districts because she knew she couldn't win her old district.
Colorado has 8 districts, so this is the result of 1/8 of the population, and easily the most red. This is not a representation of Colorado, Colorado is firmly blue and most of us fucking hate her guts.
Weird i assumed it was some kinky voyeuristic part of the country that gets off on public sex acts
As a district 4 resident I'll add some more context (and reason why we need ranked choice voting nationally). The Republican primary was packed, with 6 total candidates. Boebert only got 43% of the vote, and the next closest was Sonnenberg at 13%. The non-MAGA conservatives spread their votes across all the other candidates. With ranked choice, it would be a much closer margin. I'm not saying she would have lost, but over 50% of voting repubs wanted someone else over Boebert.
The "good" news is Boebert is pooling poorly vs Dems in the district, which means we have a chance to flip district 4 blue in November.
This page has the election results https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/colorado-us-house-district-4-results
And heres the 538 page for CO district 4. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/house/2024/colorado/4/
I don't understand how the system in the US works at all. It seems like a very small amount of people with a very specific background vote on people. So there's a ton of people getting elected all the time. But somehow the people who are elected make international news all the time? They seem very much not important and only represent a small part of the population.
Am I missing something? Why are these clowns like Bobo The Clown and Magic The Gathering getting so much attention? Who cares what some random idiots do, if they don't actually have that much power to begin with.
You're right! If the Republicans had firm control over the house, these shit heads wouldn't have the power they do. However, the current house has a razor thin margin, 213 Democrats and 222 Republicans, so losing 5 Republicans and they can't pass anything. This has given that small portion of ultra right wing reps (Boebert, MTG, Gaetz, etc.) a ton of power over the Republican Party.
The more I learn about American politics, the more I think it's the dumbest shit ever.
You are correct.
Extreme politicians having more leverage, in situations where the lead of the majoritiy party is very thin, is actually very common in most democracies.
The specific stupidity of the American democracy is the „winner takes it all“ rule which leads to a two party system.
The major problem is the way that rural populations are privileged in the ways they influence political outcomes. Of course, they get raw-dogged (economically) as a result of their stupid choices, but hey, they got to "own the libs" by inflicting assholes like beetlebert on the rest of us.