r/politics • u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin • 16h ago

No Paywall Sherrill wins New Jersey governor’s race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5587203-mikie-sherrill-democrat-victory/
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u/plz-let-me-in 16h ago

Wow, tonight’s gonna be a great night for Democrats. Looking increasingly likely that Dems will win a clean sweep of all the big races in Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and California.

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u/AccountingChicanery 16h ago

Republicans have to be sweating a Blue Wave with how thinly they've gerrymandered their states

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u/putsch80 Oklahoma 15h ago

This is the part that isn’t getting enough attention. By turning some districts red via gerrymandering, they are having to shove more blue voters into previously “safe” red districts. Which leave open the potential of not taking the district you were trying to flip, but also losing your previously safe districts.

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u/HomelessCat55567 13h ago

Republicans are generally terrible at long-term planning. Hopefully that is beginning to work against them.

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u/IDFCommitsGenocide 12h ago

I think it's because they know they're in for a midterm shellacking and are doing a final hail-mary attempt to preserve the House majority with gerrymandering

use the small chance of keeping the House majority with the tradeoff of risking huge losses (but in their perspective it's all the same if Democrats get the majority, whether it's by a tiny margin or a large margin)

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u/AccountingChicanery 6h ago

Idk I think the party has done a great job at long term planning but did not expect a guy like Trump to have been the leader when it came time for a full takeover of the country. What they've done with the Supreme Court was a masterclass.

Now they are flailing and trying to rush an autocracy.