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'19 Special & '20 Congressional Election Thread

turnout was 31% in my county, which has a pocket of blue but is mostly red. Democrats were crushed in every race.
 
Kentucky GOP on the offensive against potential Dem Senate candidate Matt Jones.

[h=1]Kentucky sports radio host, mulling Senate run vs. McConnell, is off air after GOP complaint[/h]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...-vs-mcconnell-is-off-air-after-gop-complaint/

Matt Jones, the liberal host of a popular sports radio show in Kentucky, was off the air Thursday following a complaint by the Kentucky Republican Party that he had violated campaign finance laws.

The complaint, which was filed this week, alleges that Jones, a Democrat who is mulling a Senate run against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), has been receiving corporate campaign contributions from his media gigs; namely, from iHeartRadio, the distributor of the radio show, and publisher Simon & Schuster, which is scheduled to publish a book by Jones that is critical of McConnell.


Jones filed paperwork for his exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission this year and subsequently filed disbursement reports. The complaint, filed by Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman J. McCauley Brown, argues that Jones is using the radio show as a platform to promote his candidacy and that funding and spending for his travel around the state for the book should be reported as campaign finances.

Looks like a guy was getting paid to do a radio show and write a book.
 
Turnout was 28% in Philly, and we took a city council seat that Republicans had held for 70 years.

Dems won a bunch in the Philly suburbs - especially in Delaware County, where they won council seats held by Republicans for 150 years.

West PA got redder, though, and the parties split the two statewide elections. 2020 is going to be brutal.
 
It's all about the turnout in Philly, Philly burbs and Pittsburgh. With good turnout, the rest of the state doesn't matter.
 
 
“I’m not the alternative to Mitch McConnell. We are.”

Wow.
 
 
jeff sessions and lindsay graham need to have a purse hitting contest to see who is the biggest sycophant.
 
It’s getting to be completely obvious that Republicans have made up their own reality to live in.
 
Gov John Bel Edwards won re-election yesterday in Louisiana.

And, importantly, Dems won enough seats to prevent a Republican supermajority. Which means Dems should have a say in redistricting. Current map:

 
Gov John Bel Edwards won re-election yesterday in Louisiana.

And, importantly, Dems won enough seats to prevent a Republican supermajority. Which means Dems should have a say in redistricting. Current map:


I remember that after Bevin's loss in KY, some Republican seriously tweeted that maybe it was time to start looking at some kind of electoral college-type system at the state level, because of how red the election map of KY was compared to the blue areas. I'm wondering how long it will take for some other Republican to suggest the same thing in Louisiana. "Just look at all those shades of red! It's not fair that the one heathen blue district gets to tell all the other good, god-fearin' Louisianans in those other red districts how to live!"
 
Saw this yesterday:

Since Individual 1 took office, Democrats have flipped governorships in Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Illinois, Maine, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Kentucky. And now, held the governorship in Louisiana with Governor Edwards’ re-election, a state Individual 1 won in 2016 by 20 points. In most states, legislators will draw the redistricting maps post 2020 census but governors have the veto power so we have just created a shield against gerrymandering in those states.

Also saw this:

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The GOP concept that land mass or districts matter is silly. What matters is where the people are.
 
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