I see what you’re saying although I would say they are still focused more on big cities in the swing states so small towns are still ignored. I don’t live in a big city and while the presidency affects everyone the most important politics are local. The reality is that big cities are going to decide national or statewide elections for th…
I see what you’re saying although I would say they are still focused more on big cities in the swing states so small towns are still ignored. I don’t live in a big city and while the presidency affects everyone the most important politics are local. The reality is that big cities are going to decide national or statewide elections for the most part and that makes perfect sense, that’s where people are. So if you live in a “blue state” but your town is “red” it’s true that you won’t really impact the state wide races but you have a lot of say over local races.
Local and state races matter so much! Much more than people seem to have paid attention to, ever? In recent years? I would love to see that discussed. Have local races always had less emphasis. And if not when did that change. Also yes also to small towns being ignored in most cases for larger national races!
I wonder about the possible connection between fewer and fewer truly local news sources and engagement in local elections. I've been tossing around the idea of emailing a set of questions to each of our local candidates just so that I can share those answers with my family and neighbors - I did that last year for our school board elections, and it got a lot of positive responses in our local FB group. Our town is under 5k people but our turnout for local elections rarely tops 200 people.
OK I just thought I lived in a small town! Although our county is still small! I like your idea a lot and it's something I'm going to think about doing here.
I see what you’re saying although I would say they are still focused more on big cities in the swing states so small towns are still ignored. I don’t live in a big city and while the presidency affects everyone the most important politics are local. The reality is that big cities are going to decide national or statewide elections for the most part and that makes perfect sense, that’s where people are. So if you live in a “blue state” but your town is “red” it’s true that you won’t really impact the state wide races but you have a lot of say over local races.
Local and state races matter so much! Much more than people seem to have paid attention to, ever? In recent years? I would love to see that discussed. Have local races always had less emphasis. And if not when did that change. Also yes also to small towns being ignored in most cases for larger national races!
I wonder about the possible connection between fewer and fewer truly local news sources and engagement in local elections. I've been tossing around the idea of emailing a set of questions to each of our local candidates just so that I can share those answers with my family and neighbors - I did that last year for our school board elections, and it got a lot of positive responses in our local FB group. Our town is under 5k people but our turnout for local elections rarely tops 200 people.
Emily, Inspiring us all to become local political journalists for our small communities 👏‼️
OK I just thought I lived in a small town! Although our county is still small! I like your idea a lot and it's something I'm going to think about doing here.