Most States Will Now Have A Higher Minimum Wage Than The One Set By Congress

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6. When raising the minimum wage is not a ballot initiative, it can be a liberal issue

But when it's a ballot initiative, it is no longer a liberal issue. You don't have to be a liberal to want to vote yourself a raise if you're making minimum wage. Essentially, raising minimum wage was a Democratic core issue that was taken away from the Democrats in those red states, my own state of Arkansas included, with the result that it severely reduced the economic incentive to vote for Democrats in those states. My use of "on the contrary" meant that, as far as I am concerned, the ballot initiative, even if it wasn't an obvious conservative initiative, it was one for all practical purposes because it took one of the core issues of Democrats in those states away from them.