Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Is it too soon to be talking 2020?

I have thought the same thing for a long time. When I was a kid, Idaho was a solid blue state - blue collar workers in agriculture, logging, ranching, and mining. By my late teens, the energy industry (mostly Texas oil money, according to reports of the time) had been "buying" senators and representatives, not because they cared about Idaho issues, but because they wanted anti-environment votes in Congress. That money was largely spent on a successful campaign of fear that turned the unions and extractive industry grunts in the unions into Republican supporters. At about the same time there was a huge influx of wealthier Californians, selling out their comparably higher priced properties (4X$) and retiring to the environmentally attractive, less populated, and lower taxed Gem State. That pretty much completed the conversion of Idaho from deep blue to deep red.