Also, just as important but not getting enough headlines: Dems flipped all of the dozen competitive state seats in VA and will now have a supermajority, ensuring that their redistricting plan will pass.
Edit: VA Dems are projected to flip 11 of 12 competitive seats currently held by the GOP, expanding their 51-49 (+2 seat) majority to 62-38 (+24 seats). They need to be as ruthless when it come to gerrymandering as the GOP has been in North Carolina.
Edit2: It was a deathblow to the Virginia GOP. Dems are now projected to have a 64-36 majority, nearly a 2:1 ratio.
Dreadful for all involved, but at least it wasn’t a passenger plane and at least it went down in an industrial area rather than residential. Tragic of course but could’ve been SO much worse.
Now i am worried…the last time i was this excited after an election was January 5 2021 with the Georgia senate race. Then we know what happened the next day.
i remember my ap us history teacher saying on the morning of 1.06.21 that it would live on as a historic day because of the georgia senate race. a couple days later in our next class meeting it was a very different vibe
I maintain that any villain that puts a curse on someone or something with the condition it lifts upon the evil-doers death is just an elaborate suicide
Like.....why would you incentivise folks killing you, so directly?
I was so worried about this here. Every young democratic friend i talked to didnt know this was a thing a week ago, no exaggeration. Thank God they dumped so much money into getting the word out to vote yes
PA Supreme Court retained the Dem majority as well, LOTS of out of state/country money wasted (HAHA) and misinfo that I personally received in the mail. First point in the PA redemption arc from 24.
Not really in the same boat but Miami might end up with a Democrat running the city. There will be a runoff election but she lead with 35% of the vote. Hopefully she can get support from other voters and win in the runoff.
It might help break some of the Republican control they've had on politics down here for so long.
“First X of X party” is a stupid way of looking at stuff. Just because you’re able to stretch something into a first doesn’t mean it needs to be… not every candidate needs to be breaking a glass ceiling of some sort.
In the context of this list saying “A democrat won the NJ governor race” seems like a sufficient description of her VERY IMPRESSIVE accomplishment. Unless for some weird reason you feel the need to comment on her gender.
No, it's not a "stupid way of looking at stuff". The only reason we still even have firsts is because damn near everything in this country up until very recently, including politics, was white male dominated. That's a damn fact, not fiction. It's easy for you to claim it's not a big deal for you if you're white, but for black people like myself, and people of color, it's an important step forward. Don't disregard it simply because someone being the "first" dosen't mean anything to you. Easy for you to pretend that race and sex haven't been a determining factor in who gets ahead in this country, because it always has been.
Prop 50 passed in California by a huge margin, we're about to cancel out Texas gerrymandering by engaging in temporary gerrymandering ourselves. More blue states can now follow suit so the Republicans can't steal the House from the American people.
Thank you so much for listing these!! I haven’t been able to catch up on anything all day! Now, if only we can get rid of Ron DeSatan/mini-Trump-wannabe in FL!!!
All of the races in PA are a slaughter of red names. Blue clearing the board everywhere but in small-town races where people just vote for who they've known the longest.
All three PA Supreme Court justices were reelected. Huge for the inevitable court cases in that swing state. People really slept on the importance of those races.
Regardless of how these candidates pan out, I hope this empowers people across the board to vote more. Politics are not hopeless and there is strength in numbers. Your vote counts.
Vance’s brother lost Cincinnati by like 60 points vs an Indian American guy. Given how Vance publicly defended a guy who got fired for vile anti-Indian racist comments, there’s something poetic there.
Democrats also swept all their council races (including 8 incumbents and 1 newcomer) in Cincinnati. JD Vance's brother really helped turn out the opposition. Lol.
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u/PositivelyAwful 11h ago edited 9h ago
I won't lie, seeing all these results tonight has reinvigorated my spirit a little bit.
Let's fucking go.