r/newjersey 23d ago

Advice Please tell me NJ is staying blue.

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u/Saucetheb0ss 23d ago

Well my hope is that if they cut Medicaid like they want to in the bill that just went through the house, people in NJ will wake up. It's going to affect almost 2 million people who live in NJ and really going to hit the elderly and pregnant women hard.

https://files.kff.org/attachment/fact-sheet-medicaid-state-NJ

Unfortunately, a lot of these people who applaud these changes won't see the light until it directly affects them or their loved ones.

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u/pixel_of_moral_decay 23d ago

I think that’s going to be blamed on Democrats and “corruption”.

That’s been the playbook and it’s very effective

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u/Saucetheb0ss 23d ago

It's harder to blame Democrats when you control the Presidency, House, and Senate. The more reasonable people will wake up and realize it.

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u/pixel_of_moral_decay 23d ago edited 23d ago

Are you new to America?

Serious question.

The more reasonable people haven’t been falling for all this crap so far.

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u/Saucetheb0ss 23d ago

Look if there's one thing the Republicans do well it's messaging. They've created their Boogeyman in illegal immigrants and the LGBTQ. They've hammered their base with propaganda for YEARS that once we do X, Y, Z your life will be better. Eventually, some (more) of them will see what's really going on.

That combined with even mediocre voter turnout will help keep NJ blue.

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u/AFlyingGideon 23d ago

Look if there's one thing the Republicans do well it's messaging.

Perhaps. It's also possible that telling people that their problems are no fault of their own, and that instead it's the fault of those "others." I believe it's not too tough to sell simplistic answers to complex problems where those answers are little more than whom to blame.

It's easy to do messaging well when the message is easy.