Seth Keshel argues that modern elections are increasingly shaped by large urban vote margins that can outweigh results from the rest of a state. The piece focuses on ballot harvesting, city-based political strongholds, and the structural challenges faced in statewide races where a small number of counties dominate total outcomes.
With modern elections now in a new, decisively worse age controlled by paid Democrat ballot harvesters, the odds of getting a GOP mayor in one of those cities is almost nil. Things have gotten so bad with election integrity that, prior to the 2024 election, Democrats had a handle on 18 states in which the margin from one single Democrat-won county exceeded all GOP margins combined from every other county in the state. That number has come down a bit since Trump’s 2024 win, but the point remains – Democrats use their beachheads to blot out the competition statewide by blowing up their margins to impossible levels.
https://skeshel.substack.com/p/why-do-cities-vote-democrat