General Discussion

They vary from district to district, state to state, county to county and precinct to precinct. There is no single issue that determines how people in this enormous, diverse country will vote. Not even close.

So, elections have to be treated individually, not nationally, and not even by state. People who understand elections recognize that. there are constituencies that will absolutely never elect a Democrat, and their opposites, as well. Smart candidates avoid such elections. It is the elections that can be won by either side that make all the difference. We live in a nation where power flips from party to party frequently and unpredictably.

There is no single issue that controls who is in power in any jurisdiction, and in states and the nation as a whole, no issue even comes close.

Gaining and losing power is a problem of huge numbers of individual elections. There is no single answer. Probably there never will be.

It's just not a simple thing, as much as some of us would like it to be.