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[US Federal Congressional Elections 2018] Tester Wins, AZ/FL Too Close
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And it reached all the way to Oklahoma, which is +10. The white bars are increments of +5.
Heheheh there's even one in Wyoming! Woo!
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Well, the legislature doesn’t have a veto proof supermajority anymore, and the “establish a one party politburo” amendments both failed miserably, so I guess it’s moving in a little d democratic direction.
Though a fun joke, it is probably more, "Dems do better in higher income areas that have a higher proportion of college educated folks."
Wait, hmmm...wonder if Whole Foods would be an okay proxy for that.
Plus, doesn't that mean if Hunter, Collins and Nunes get convicted of anything, that the next speaker can move to expel them. I doubt the next Republican shitbird leading the rat fucker caucus of the house would do so for rather shitty reasons.
Republicans do better in higher income areas, and won outright among households earning over $100k. Democrats are the poor people's party.
That is fucked
That is emblematic of how bad the map was this time.
"The chads are not going to hang themselves" sounds like a threat because I've been watching too many deep dives on incels lately...
The latter especially. There's still a strong inverse relationship between Democratic voting and income
It'd be nice if we had it by race and income but I haven't found that.
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Not fair. There's a whole foods like three blocks from where I live.
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https://www.abqjournal.com/1243372/outcome-of-cd-2-race-up-in-the-air.html
The interesting thing is that Herrell is the last high profile Republican still standing in the whole state if she wins. Nearly all the other federal and state Republican candidates fell- even the land commissioner which was thought to be a given. Even long standing ABQ city councilors trying other offices were turned out. The GOP in NM will have a lot of rebuilding to do and the Democratic Party is finally growing its bench.
Also roughly 50% of eligible voters turned out.
Final edit: A huge election for women candidates.
Oh, snap, SoS web site has Torres Small up ~2700 votes as of 6:23 PM. Ok, no more looking until tomorrow.
More good news.
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That's how you democracy, folks. Super proud of everyone that put the effort into making that campaign happen.
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Same. From twice-over Bush voter to ultra-progressive queer lib feminist.
The "base" here might be the ones who think Trump is a gift to the world from Jesus.
My family were "Clinton Republicans" until W.
I noped out exactly after I heard "Axis of Evil" and my dad noped out after the WMDs were shown to be a lie, and now I lean toward socialist.
Buuuut, I wouldn't focus much energy on conversion. Just make the information easily available and answer questions if you feel up to it.
Slown burn efforts, definately, but horrible things are happening now that won't unhappen so we can't wait for the turnaround.
I swear to god, if my vote is tossed out...
Also, this:
AZ, you are killing me here.
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Sweet, we just need to get 80 million Republicans to join Penny Arcade.
While I guess it'll be nice to have a Democrat back in Matheson's old seat, and it appears that the ballot measure to implement an independent districting board will pass; it feels a little hollow when I can't help but think the fact he's a white man played as much, if not more, into his win, than any policies or his party.
Even Matheson was barely a Democrat, but this guy ran on what would have been unquestionably a pre-2008 Republican platform. And not even center, but pretty firmly on the right.
That he beat the only black female republican congresswomen in the country, from a state that is overwhelmingly white; feels just a tad dirty.
Which isn't to say that Love was good. She didn't do much but be a token for the party and (to her credit, in action, but sullied it by making it about her later) helped get a hostage back from Venezuela. Then she did some shady fundraising shit with the primaries and was unpopular enough to not hold onto the seat. I guess she did present the bare minimum criticism to Trump's "shithole" comment.
Regardless, Utah did some good. Votes aren't fully tallied and Friday is when they expect to be able to give mostly final numbers (assuming things aren't within recount margins), but it appears pretty clearly that medical marijuana was passed, a good chance that the proposition to form an independent districting committee will pass, which the state desperately needs after Republicans utterly fucked over the 4th district in order to force Matheson out. Medicare expansion passed, and a Democrat retook the 4th. Romney was a shoe-in but I dunno, I'm actually kind of at peace with that. I have no love for Romney, but even if it is out of self interest, he has been willing to attack Trump, and their history puts them immediately at odds. Maybe he'll lose his spine immediately, I dunno, but he did put out a statement yesterday critical of Trump, so....? He's a carpetbagger and ran/won on name alone, but it's going to be some time before Utah can make any decent progress moving away from the stranglehold Mormon (fuck the demand by the church to use "LDS") names and such have on the culture and influence. Romney certainly isn't going to vote against Trump or the party; but his self interest may actually ultimately be...helpful? Maybe not the right word, but if he votes with his party to keep the peace with other Republicans while publicly being a "sane" counter to Trump; with his visibility and name recognition, he could easily position himself for party leadership or even another run at the White House. Basically what Flake is/was trying to do, but a higher chance of success. Maybe. I think even Romney may underestimate what the Republican party has created with their base. Utah doesn't have as much, overtly at least, radicalization as you see in some southern states and other areas, but the relative moderacy Romney could think still exists simply might not anymore. We shall see at least.
So it was a generally positive election in Utah, or at minimum a fully expected election with regards to Romney. Hopefully the public holds the state legislature to task and doesn't let them undermine the vote by either finding reasons to not, or horribly mangling the propositions that passed.
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Eh, and Spool32 was never actually ‘the base’ from the moment he joined. He was always willing to have a back and forth discussion about things. If we convinced him of anything, it was that democratic policies were better aligned with his own beliefs (economic and personal freedoms, a free and fair market etc. spool32 shows why republicans are so desperate to isolate their voters from democratic ones and prevent a pleasant conversation happening.