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'19 Special & '20 Congressional Election Thread

What John Bel Edwards’s big Louisiana win says about Democrats — and Trump

John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, won reelection as governor of deep-red Louisiana on Saturday by a comfortable 40,000 votes — after President Trump had repeatedly campaigned for his Republican opponent. Worse for Trump, this came after he positively begged voters to support the Republican, casting it as a referendum on himself by saying: “You got to give me a big win, please.”

Yet Edwards won, in large part, by also stressing his implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion in the state during his first term. Indeed, Edwards’s lead pollster, Zac McCrary, told me during an interview that no single issue was more important in driving the governor’s victory.

All of which underscores an important truism about the Trump era, one often neglected by pundits: A key reason Democrats have been racking up wins in Trump country may be the president’s embrace of conventional GOP plutocratic economics.
 
If you get nostalgic, isn't there a bar that's part in AL and part in FL?
 
Anything that can be done about Gym Jordan? What’s his district like? Gotta imagine a lot of people in it hate him, but as with Gaetz’s and Meadows’, probably too little to matter.
 
Anything that can be done about Gym Jordan? What’s his district like? Gotta imagine a lot of people in it hate him, but as with Gaetz’s and Meadows’, probably too little to matter.

He's in an impressively gerrymandered district that voted for Trump by over 30 points.

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'19 Special & '20 Congressional Election Thread

Yeah and if you’re on the Florida side you get to be n Gaetz’s district.

Damn. That's far shittier than Carowinds.

This is Gym Jordan's district.

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Call it a duck, letter J, mom doing a handstand on a baby carriage. Whatever.

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Looks like it's going to be redrawn due to gerrymandering, but we'll see what happens.
 
The GOP concept that land mass or districts matter is silly. What matters is where the people are.

Somebody I used to know in high school just posted this on social media: "The electorate are the Citizens - all Citizens that are allowed to vote. The Citizens that are allowed to vote are called the ELECTORATE. The electoral college represents the contest that protects the one vote of each individual Citizen in each state. (Just like the World Series, where the winner isn't the team that scores the most total runs in the series, but wins the best of 7, the electoral college means that in order to win the Country, that a contestant must win the best of 50 - one contest or "game" played in each state)." You would think that in the 21st Century the votes of real Citizens would matter more than the votes of States or empty swaths of land, but no. And lol at comparing the EC to the World Series. Sigh.
 
At least there’s a college the rubes like.
 
Anything that can be done about Gym Jordan? What’s his district like? Gotta imagine a lot of people in it hate him, but as with Gaetz’s and Meadows’, probably too little to matter.



[h=1]Ohio farmer who left GOP over Trump's agricultural policy to challenge Jim Jordan[/h]
https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...r-trumps-agricultural-policy-to-challenge-jim

An Ohio farmer who left his post as chairman of a local Republican Party — in part over President Trump’s agricultural policies — is considering mounting a challenge to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
The Toledo Blade reports that Chris Gibbs, a cattle farmer and former chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party, is launching an exploratory committee as he mulls running against Jordan for his seat in Congress.
Gibbs is considering running against Jordan as an independent and plans to formally announce the launch of his campaign Wednesday, according to the news outlet.
Gibbs has been a frequent guest on cable news outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, knocking Trump for the trade war with China that he said has negatively impacted American farmers.
“Tariffs for agriculture have been devastating,” Gibbs told the Blade. “In northwest Ohio, [farmers] have had a heck of a time.”
 
A little late partly because it takes the west coast a while to count ballots - Socialist on Seattle's city council beat her Amazon-backed opponent:

How socialist Kshama Sawant triumphed over Amazon in its own backyard

“The fact that a socialist who has been an unapologetic fighter for ordinary people and who has doggedly used a movement-building approach and shown herself to be extremely effective and successful, that you can win three elections, that should be extremely empowering for our movements,” said Sawant, who will now be starting her third term in office in January.

Amazon, which is headquartered in Seattle, contributed $1.5m into the local city council elections by way of a political action committee sponsored by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. The Civic Alliance for a Sound Economy backed her opponent, Orion, and six other candidates considered to be business-friendly. Only two of them ultimately won.

Sawant, a Mumbai-educated economist and former tech worker, said the Amazon money certainly had a negative impact on her campaign, citing the many attack mailers and online attack ads that have circulated. But it also helped to further galvanize her grassroots support. Her campaign ultimately saw hundreds of volunteers who knocked on more than 200,000 doors, and over $500,000 in donations from hundreds of individual donors across the US.
 
And a former public defender won the DA race in San Francisco:

10 things you might not know about Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's new District Attorney

Boudin, 39, campaigned on issues of criminal justice reform and his experience as a public defender. He advocates for ending the money bail system, testing every rape kit, protecting San Francisco's status as a sanctuary city, and ending mass incarceration, among other issues.

He argues that because his parents spent much of their lives incarcerated (or in his father's case, is still incarcerated), he intimately understands the human impacts of long prison sentences.
 
That has to be fake news. Trump would never sing a song from a shithole country.
 
We need a lot more birdmans in AL, not less. I say that from the comfort of California.

Alabama is too far gone. I’m moving to a state that occasionally swings and my vote might actually be worth something.
 
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