Ohio has voted to make reproductive autonomy a core constitutional right.
I’ve seen enough: in a victory for the pro-choice side, Ohio Issue 1, a measure to establish a right to an abortion in the state constitution, passes.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2023
Virginia Democrats are holding the state Senate at the very least:
8:59 P.M. PROJECTION- DEMOCRATS HAVE WON THE VIRGINIA SENATE. Aaron Rouse (D) wins seat 21 and the majority.
Current Count: 21 DEM, 15 GOP, 4 UND
— Ben Tribbett (@notlarrysabato) November 8, 2023
Still early, but the trend is looking good for the Democrats to flip the state house, including a potential win by a candidate who got revenge porn smeared.
Kentucky Democratic Governor Breshear won re-election:
BREAKING: Democrat Andy Beshear has been re-elected as Kentucky Governor. #KYGOV | Read More: https://t.co/AjgWxxauLW pic.twitter.com/V0kwM63I3l
— WHAS11 News (@WHAS11) November 8, 2023
And locally, the slate of NIMBYs that want to keep Chapel Hill a car dependent single family, upper income only town is having their asses kicked. Their mayoral candidate is losing by 18 points and they might only get 1 candidate on town council—> however that is iffy as the trend throughout the night is the YIMBY candidates including the one just trailing the only potential winning NIMBY slot have been doing very very well on election day votes. The top 3 candidates, all YIMBYs, built up a lead on early votes but are pulling a higher percentage on election day votes. Half of the precincts are still remaining and the trend might get the last YIMBY candidate into a squeaker against the best NIMBY candidate.
Update for Chapel Hill: YIMBY Mayor and 3 out of 4 Council slots are YIMBY plus incumbents means at least 7 of the 9 council votes are open to thinking about a future that is different than the past in Chapel Hill.
lowtechcyclist
Wasserman’s also called VA Senate for the Dems.
ETA; I mean, if you can’t trust @notlarrysabato about Virginia politics, who can you trust, but it’s always good when Wasserman’s seen enough.
Barbara
Posted below but best site IMO for Virginia results is WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/2023/virginia/?itid=hp-mv-top-stories_top-table-main_p001_f001#va-senate
Repeat after me: the rurals report sooner.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
@Barbara:
Is the House up this year too?
Barbara
@Baud: Yes. Every two years.
Baud
@Barbara:
When will we know about that?
steve g
This must be bad news for Joe Biden, but I am struggling to see how.
RedDirtGirl
The Mississippi Governor’s election is going to be interesting. The largest democratic county (do I have that right?) started running out of ballots early in the day. And a huge number of mail-in ballots were requested (which likely lean blue?), and those aren’t due in until the 15th, so it we may not know for a while…
Freemark
Reminds me of the old Hefty commercial. YIMBY, YIMBY, YIMBY vs nimby, nimby, nimby.
Hefty
You really can find just about anything on Youtube
Mousebumples
Also major props to Danica Roem who, i believe, win be the first transgender State Senator in Virginia with her win tonight!
I’m not tired of winning. Excited to keep working for 2024 turnout!
twbrandt
I am feeling more optimistic – but certainly not complacent – about 2024. We still need to fight like hell next year.
Jeffro
I cannot tell y’all enough how, on multiple levels, the Fro fam is breathing a sigh of relief that the Dems held the State Senate.
(I know I’m not the only one…I’m just sayin’ )
Let’s see if we get the House, too! I think we will. =)
dmsilev
@steve g: Obviously it means he should step back and let Andy Beshear run in his stead.
lowtechcyclist
Looks like Josh Thomas (D) has won VA HD-21.
And Nadarius Clark (D) wins HD-84.
They were both ‘Tilt D.’
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@twbrandt: But what about the narrative? Won’t you think of the narrative?
lowtechcyclist
Larry Sabato: “CLEARANCE SALE: all ‘Youngkin for President 2024’ merchandise. A free MyPillow comes with all purchases over $1. NO RETURNS.“
Barbara
@Baud: I stayed up until 3 am in 2006 to see whether Jim Webb won. No idea.
Barbara
@Jeffro: And it’s only 9:30 pm!
Percysowner
@steve g: David Rathkopf has the answer
They are going to get too cocky!
Honestly, Pitchbot can’t make it any crazier!
Jeffro
Good point made on Twitter (yes, really): when will the media start calling on loser trump to drop out of the race? He’s such a weight around the neck of the GOP. Also, he’s old. LOLOLOLOL
Anoniminous
@lowtechcyclist:
Guy is also saying Dems “are favorites to take majority in House of Delegates”
damn
Omnes Omnibus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
In the words of EFG, fuck ’em.
rekoob
@Mousebumples: From the previous thread (data still valid as of 9:30p Eastern) —
The race between David Owen (R) and Susanna Gibson (D) in the Virginia House of Delegates 57th District is Owen with a margin of 24 votes with 15 out of 17 precincts reporting. (Early Vote/Provisionals not yet counted.)
twbrandt
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Fuck the narrative :)
ETA: I posted this before I saw Omnes’ response :)
HinTN
@Omnes Omnibus: A.fucking.men!
Rest in power EFG.
David Anderson
@rekoob: rather be Gibson
Splitting Image
@steve g:
Democrat successes likely to lead to overconfidence and defeat in 2024, analysts warn.
The analysts will turn out to be Mark Thiessen and Ken Vogel.
Martin
My hobby is fighting NIMBYs. Always nice to hear them losing.
Also, congrats to NYC councilperson Yusef Salaam. Hard to imagine a more deserving person to win that seat.
mrmoshpotato
Watching PBS Frontline’s episode on Sack of Shit McConnell. I look forward to pissing on his grave.
Omnes Omnibus
Some people were wondering about NJ. A Dem flipped a +35 Trump district.
hueyplong
@mrmoshpotato: Get in line.
Old School
stacib
@Splitting Image: And Peter Baker – sheesh, I can’t stand that guy.
Jeffro
Now that Ohio has voted to legalize and tax MJ, I’m excited to put together a road trip to Canton (football), Cleveland (rock n’ roll), and every dispensary in between. =)
mrmoshpotato
@hueyplong: Been in line since at least 2016.
Mousebumples
@rekoob: thanks for the updates! ❤️
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
but, but… the polls
Anoniminous
@Omnes Omnibus:
*blink
Splitting Image
@Omnes Omnibus:
Damn. Another rebuke to Biden. Won’t he take a hint?
Seriously, props to this gentleman. Running in such a difficult district is the most thankless job in politics, and often the most important.
Citizen Dave
It’s not all blue unfortunately. Our lone (1 of 3) D city council members lost by 300 or so votes. A city of 100K, and 20K votes are cast (Fishers Indiana). On the other hand, Dem mayors held Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, and flipped Terre Haute and Evansville.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
How big Democratic victories are in reality Great News for McCain
E.
I volunteered pretty hard for city council candidate. Black woman who with 78 percent reporting is clobbering the sociopath developer who used all the right-wing dog whistles. Other local elections going well here too!
Omnes Omnibus
So far, this is a good night. Doesn’t it feel great? Let’s work to make it happen again in next year.
Punchy
Im not sure how, but I have little faith the Ohio GOP wont find a way to bypass/ignore this change to their consty. Just as Alabama had strict SCOTUS orders to add a D district but said “fuck that”, I foresee Ohio doing something similar. And if the Ohio SC pulls a Sgt Schultz on the whole thing, boom there’s a prob.
WaterGirl
@Percysowner:
Alison Rose
@Mousebumples: Virginia is for lovers, not haters! 🏳️⚧️
WaterGirl
@Percysowner: You have to click the TEXT tab before you paste in the embed code.
Suzanne
Cherelle Parker is the new mayor of Philly!
Matt
We’ve voted, but I personally don’t assume that that means diddly with the GOP criminals in the Statehouse.
We voted for nonpartisan maps too, and they ran out the clock until they could get one of their buddies to run the state Supreme Court.
We’ve had an unconstitutional school-funding system for literally decades.
Jackie
@steve g:
Reposting just because I enjoyed it so much! Dark Brandon is sleeping with a grin tonight!
Another Scott
BlueVirginia.US’s live blog:
It’s not over, but it’s looking very good in the Commonwealth tonight.
Fingers crossed!!
Cheers,
Scott.
CaseyL
@Matt: I think – and someone will correct me if I’m wrong – but the Ohio abortion rights vote was for a constitutional amendment. I’m sure the GOP will try to nullify it, but I’m not sure how one can nullify a constitutional amendment (short of running another campaign to repeal it).
WaterGirl
@E.: Where are you?
Czar Chasm
Hey y’all, candidate here for a local election in Fluvanna County, Virginia. They instituted a new election rule this year in Virginia, where localities have to assign all early votes to their respective precincts, which will delay a slew of election results. Most may not be known until tomorrow morning.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Mousebumples
@Omnes Omnibus: I appreciate not having to stress out about Wisconsin returns tonight. Here’s hoping Wisconsin can continue to relax, until we ramp up GOTV to 11 for the 2024 reelection campaign.
Ladyraxterinok
@Omnes Omnibus:
He’s an Orthodox rabbi, I think
Almost Retired
@Omnes Omnibus: Totally agree! Next, make Wisconsin blue! Which it already is, but you can’t tell because of the fraud and suppression.
danielx
@Jeffro:
So Indiana is now going to be surrounded by full legal states. Wonder how long it’s going to take the the legislature to get tired of all that tax revenue going to surrounding states.
SpaceUnit
Based on tonight’s election results I assume the next NYT poll will claim that Joe Biden’s approval rating is down to 11%.
Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Assholes. Let’s bury these fuckers a year from now.
ETA: And then raise their taxes.
Mousebumples
Thanks for the fyi, and good luck to you in your race!
I think I’m going to call it a night then. Thanks, all!
catclub
@Jeffro: and abortion rights did BETTER than MJ legalization!
Sean
@Matt: Given how much more immediate and far reaching abortion access is as an issue, that would be a risky strategy for sure heading into 2024. If the right to the healthcare won is denied, I figure that will be a lot more motivating to voters than redistricting map battles.
Jackie
@lowtechcyclist:
Choking on wine going down the wrong pipe while laughing. Totally worth it!😂🤣😂
Omnes Omnibus
TIL that failed GOP KY candidate Cameron was the DA who refused to prosecute the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.
Bupalos
@Punchy: there is really no way to fuck around with a constitutional amendment this clear and a plebicite this resounding. It’s going to clear by like 15%. After they tried all their confusion and bullshit wording.
If they tried anything they’d get electorally murdered. They’re going to back away slowly.
hells littlest angel
You’re goddam right.
Soprano2
I think the mostly male pundits still don’t understand how angry the Dobbs decision made women. I look at the Ohio result on the abortion amendment and know that’s why Republicans are playing games in MO to keep a similar amendment off our ballot in 2024. They know it will win if only we can vote on it.
Suzanne
So an acquaintance of mine who is very progressive, is very critical of Biden (but voted for him), and who is a big EARN MY VOTE guy wrote this, and it made me laugh.
If this is the kind of convincing we need to do to keep the coalition together, I can do that.
Anyway
Go Dems! Re the comment downstairs about Stalin choosing who gets to count the votes — Rethugs have taken it further — R candidates try to choose their voters through gerrymandering and restrictions on voting.
Martin
@Jeffro: Bohner will finally get his payoff.
catclub
@RedDirtGirl: on the one hand… Mississippi goddam. 57-41 for tater.
Not really surprising.
On the other hand it looks like all the counties not yet reporting include a lot in the Delta.
mdblanche
@mrmoshpotato: Note to self: when going dancing later, don’t wear the good tap shoes.
Jeffro
@danielx: yup – it’ll be just like all the various gambling/casino stuff.
(although, full disclaimer, I’m not a fan of the gambling/casino stuff)
@catclub: yup, it’s a great sign!
Honus
@Barbara: I remember that race. I was at the democratic celebration party in Charlottesville and it was raining that night. Webb was down about 3,500, and I was bummed that we’d come so close and didn’t beat George Allen. I left about midnight and drove home 1/2 hour to Free Union. When I got home the radio was reporting Webb up by about 3,500. I thought for sure they had the results reversed by mistake. I turned on the TV and they were reporting the same thing. I kept thinking they’d get it straightened out. I was elated when I finally figured out it wasn’t a mistake.
Miss Bianca
@Jeffro: Have they voted to legalize MJ? I heard that Question 2 was trailing Question 1, so I figured that meant it was going down to defeat.
Good news for women and potheads alike! :)
Steeplejack
@Czar Chasm:
Good luck! 🤞
Jackie
@Another Scott:
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
rekoob
@Mousebumples: Now that I’m following it (via the elections.virginia.gov Website) House of Delegates District 57:
as of 9:55p Eastern
David Owen (R) 9809
Susanna Gibson (D) 9833
(again, no Early/Provisional Votes counted)
Omnes Omnibus
@catclub:
There are still big lines in Hinds County.
catclub
Unless they can find some way to get the issue to the present US SC.
New Deal democrat
Admiral Spruance, June 1942: “I want that 4th Jap carrier!”
Me, tonight: “I want the Virginia House of Delegates!”
ETA: Dems need 1 more seat for a tie, 2 for a majority.
Jeffro
Several of these VA House seats are currently within a 1,000 vote margin even as the counting gets close to being done. Don’t ever let anyone tell folks that their votes don’t count!
Jeffro
@rekoob: I just saw that (and that was part of what I referenced at #81)
Amazing if she wins – go Gibson!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
I love the smell of votes in the morning – smells like victory!
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: Wow.
Barbara
@Jeffro: A VA house seat in 2017 was decided by a coin toss to break a tie.
Kathleen
@steve g: Relax. NYT/WaPo / MSNBROC/CNN / NBC/CBS/ABC /NPR/PBS will be happy to tell you.
Tom Levenson
Any calls on the PA Supreme Court race? It looks good for the D — up by 11 points with 61% of the vote in — but I haven’t seen a call.
Alison Rose
@Omnes Omnibus: Now I’m even happier that he lost.
zhena gogolia
@SpaceUnit: Right on! And don’t forget take their guns away.
Kathleen
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m ecstatic!
Barbara
@Tom Levenson: Kind of a sleeper – didn’t get much notice here. Was there a clear favorite?
WaterGirl
@Czar Chasm: Wow, I’m on pins and needles about VA. I can only imagine what it’s like if you are a candidate.
Fingers crossed for you!
Martin
@Bupalos: Not a lot of evidence out there that Republicans are taking the electoral messages in stride.
Suzanne
@Tom Levenson: No call yet…. I keep refreshing!
New Deal democrat
@Jeffro: One of them has the Dem trailing by only about 80 votes.
Barbara
@Soprano2: Women are invisible to too many men.
SpaceUnit
@zhena gogolia:
Amen.
Tom Levenson
@Suzanne: Me too! My jab at the little circle-arrow in the location bar is getting to the point of RSI risk!
TaMara
We didn’t have a lot on the ballot this year, but the ridiculous Prop HH is going down in flames as it should (sorry Gov, who I like a lot). I’m worried more about the local school boards. The CO republican party is flailing and broke, but decided the way to build back was to take over school boards. They were successful a decade or so ago, for a very brief time, until folks saw through it. Hoping they continue to see through it this time to and vote against these book banning, transphobic losers.
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: New rotating tag:
Tom Levenson
@Barbara: Don’t think so. It’s something of a bellwether for the D-R lean in the state. So I’m hoping for a solid D win, partly as antidote to the NYT polling narrative.
But we’ll see.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Did not know that.
CindyH
I live in Chapel Hill too – voted for the good guys and gals but was surprised to see them win – very pleasantly surprised!
CaseyL
@Czar Chasm: Fingers crossed – and BTW I love your nym :)
Barbara
@Suzanne: NYT let’s you see where the remaining votes are coming from and it looks like most are from Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, and other suburban Philly locations. That should be highly favorable to the Democrat.
Tom Levenson
@Barbara: Yup. I’m hopeful and reasonably confident. But I like the satisfaction of “I’ve seen enough…”
Carlo Graziani
@CaseyL: Every state in which such a thing is practicable should now put an Ohio-style abortion-rights constitutional amendment on the ballot for November 2024. That is the simplest and most obvious path to total Blue victory.
Dan B
@Citizen Dave: The mayor elect in Terre Haute is former military, 27 years old, as cute as can be, and has a smile that could melt rocks. Way to go Indiana!!
WaterGirl
@Tom Levenson: No call yet that I have seen.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: It was in my post. :-)
Betsy
@Soprano2: They may know women are angry, but *women* tend to know who among their friends and/or family has had an abortion, and THAT is what men don’t know.
So they will always underestimate how important this is to women and just how many women are personally affected by it.
Women often share their abortion experiences and choices with many of the following: their moms, their women friends, their aunts, their nieces, their sisters, their grandmoms — not with the men in their lives and/or not many of the men in their lives.
So this is an area where men (and rabidly-anti-choice women) are ALWAYS going to be ignorant of the depth of the support for choice and rage at attempts to fuck with our lives.
Alison Rose
From NYT:
Love it.
Rose Weiss
In my tiny Oregon coastal town we’re waiting for results of a recall vote against the incompetent mayor, along with 2 city council members. We have a great chance with this because even a lot of local super-Republicans are supporting the recall. After the city manager was convicted of theft, they voted to give her job back to her, triggering outrage right and left. The city police were especially offended since the city manager is their boss. We should know something within a couple of hours.
Barbara
@WaterGirl: I just meant over the course of the last few months. I couldn’t even find postcard writing opportunities.
Honus
@rekoob: Susanna was down exactly 24 votes about twenty minutes ago. Goochland hasn’t reported and that worries me.
Sparkedcat
I just watched Andy Beshear’s victory speech and will tell you that he is ready for primetime.
Jackie
I’m actually going to enjoy reading RWNJ sites tomorrow morning!😂
Not a normal past time, but I’ll make an exception for tomorrow 😁
Kathleen
@Sparkedcat: Listening to it right now.
marcopolo
Repeating something funny I just saw: If you want to make a Republican cry just let them know for the past 5 election cycles the party that won KY Gov has won the White House. Honestly, at this point along the way that’s as predictive as any national poll in my book.
Honus
@Jeffro: didn’t the Virginia house flip a few years ago on a literal coin toss?
ETA: see Barbara at #85
Another Scott
Woot!!
Cheers,
Scott.
New Deal democrat
Per Ben Tribbett, Dem’s just won the 50th seat inthe Virginia House of Delegates. One more gives them an outright majority.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: oh.
New Deal democrat
@Honus: Yes
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: Do you have a youtube link, by any chance?
Alison Rose
Bahahaha:
We love to see rich Republicans jerks flush their money down the turlet.
Hoppie
Repeating from below dying thread:
Beshear family’s base is the eastern mountains, very deep roots and relationships there. AND both pere et fils have come through for them. That goes a long way in small communities.
(See how I showed my elite snobbery?)
So no real surprise he won there.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Margin break at #86.
Betsy
@Barbara: Women’s abortions are invisible to many men, too. They have NO FUCKING IDEA how many of the women they know have had abortions. Women, though,typically do know this information for at least some of the women they are close to.
Suzanne
@Barbara: Agreed. Fingers crossed.
We are also watching our County DA race. This is the tightest one so far.
Dan B
@Barbara: I’m a Gold Star gay and I feel women’s issues, although some escape me. It may have helped that my mother was an early feminist.
Alison Rose
According to NYT, Adams in VA is up 52 to 48 with 86% in. Feggans is down 51 to 49 with 57% in.
Matt McIrvin
I’ve heard no results about the Haverhill, Massachusetts mayoral election, but I can wait until tomorrow. In the open jungle primary in September, Democratic candidate Melinda Barrett got a substantial majority of the entire vote (there was a recount over the hair-thin margin for second place, but both of those guys combined were well behind Barrett).
marcopolo
@Another Scott: So glad to put a stake through Youngkin’s national political aspirations. Man can’t even keep control in his own state. Sad. If we are lucky, maybe Trump will call him a loser.
frosty
@TaMara: The Rs had a slate of candidates coming for my school board here in South Pennsyltucky. Based on the usual voting results I’m afraid they’ll win it but I haven’t looked yet.
piratedan
looks like Tucson is staying blue, the mayor (Romero) and three of the ward council members that were up for re-election were all returned to office.
looks like school funding is passing as well.
Anoniminous
@Another Scott:
WHOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bupalos
@Martin: actually at least in ohio here all the “no on 1” messaging was about “protecting women” or “parents rights”. They’re literally afraid to talk about their issue. They know they’ve got a tiger by the tail.
Jeffro
@Jackie: I’m shocked that Fox News dot com is leading with Beshear’s victory.
Genuinely shocked (and that doesn’t happen too often!)
I guess they’re trying to wake their sleepwalking pols to their 2024 peril??
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Fixed, thank you!
Ohio Mom
@Omnes Omnibus: From your link, it looks like he won mostly because it is an Orthodox neighborhood* and he’s a rabbi. He isn’t all the Blue, he is a Democrat out of convenience. This doesn’t mean anything.
* Ohio Dad tells me Lakewood has the frumiest (most rabidly Orthodox) yeshivah (school) in the country.
marcopolo
Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens: “The legislature has multiple paths that we will explore to continue to protect innocent life. This is not the end of the conversation.”
Please, please, please continue Ohio Rs. I so hope abortion rights are the gift that keeps giving in this state till Ds start winning more reliably.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
I need to remember these last two days the next time the media whips me into a frenzy about doom for Dems.
Jeffro
@Barbara:
@Honus:
fully aware, was here for that, thank you. ;)
I just want the House (however many coin flips it takes) to try and kneecap Smilin’ Glenn’s presidential aspirations. We’ve already got Senator Lucas’ “brick wall” to stop his nonsense here in the state; let’s make sure he doesn’t get a chance to snow American voters in 2028 (or beyond!)
Yutsano
@Dan B: You’re going to make me look aren’t you?
EDIT: I looked. ‘Twas worth it.
Chetan Murthy
@Jeffro:
When he won in 2021 it scared the shit out of me. Seeing him go down would be delicious.
Dan B
@Ohio Mom: Is it the Cleveland area Lakewood? If so it was the gayest city in the area. I had an aunt, uncle, and cousins there. Having an ultra conservative yeshiva there would be interesting.
Anoniminous
Looking ahead with Youngkin losing biggly the GOP is in deep doo-doo. Who do they have left that can make the leap to the Big Time?
C Stars
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Was it really just yesterday that the headlines were in full “Democrat doom porn” mode?
Ramona
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Remember, remember
the seventh of November…
Twenty twenty-three
Oh what glee!
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: Here you go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hgP-orzwow&ab_channel=KET-KentuckyEducationalTelevision
C Stars
@marcopolo: I very much hope they will keep kicking that horse through 2024. I believe there will be an abortion referendum in AZ next year which is good news.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Ramona: Most indeed.
Kent
They have as many people as Democrats do. There are very nearly equal numbers of GOP and DEM governors, senators, and congressmen in this country.
Experience isn’t all that in this day and age. Anyone they pick will get fluffed by right wing media, social media, and a tidal wave of dark money.
Dan B
@Yutsano: Be my guest. It’s nice, or an extra bonus, to have Dems that are nice to look at since much of the job is to make people like you.
Kathleen
@marcopolo: The people on the Blue Ohio call said Rethugs will keep trying to rodent procreate the citizens of Ohio.
Ramona
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Hee, hee…
SpaceUnit
@WaterGirl:
I’m honored.
H.E.Wolf
The Columbus Dispatch online site shows that with ~80% of the votes counted, total votes for Issue 1 have surpassed the overall total in the August 2023 special election (which was an implicit referendum on reproductive rights).
August: 3,098,534 (57.11% were for the pro-choice side)
November: 3,239,816 (56% thus far for the pro-choice side)
Fingers crossed until final numbers are in… but it’s in line with all the other pro-choice election victories since Dobbs.
I hope Republicans across the country will rue the day that the Rs in the US Senate seated enough right-wing US Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe.
Ksmiami
@Chetan Murthy: he’s a disco dancing, white bread, vest wearing, private equity looting bs light-weight. I hope his political career gets incinerated.
Ohio Mom
@Dan B: No, this fellow won in Lakewood, New Jersey.
geg6
@Tom Levenson:
No call that I’ve seen yet.
I’m feeling optimistic. A former student is running for county commissioner. He graduated with a business degree and went into the Navy. When he got out, he went the Obama route as a community organizer and activist. He’s a young, personable, African American with a lovely young family. Three candidates will be winners and Julian is running a close third, with the other Dem in first. If they both win, that will give us a Dem majority for the first time in about a decade. Also looking like the Dem is winning against the incumbent GOPer for DA. If this all holds up, I’ll be ecstatic.
marcopolo
To continue with delicious schadenfreude, this is a post from Trump on Truth Social from 3 days ago:
Who’s going to break the news to him? Someone said this earlier today but these results really seem to indicate Trump is a giant millstone around the neck of the R party. He should probably withdraw from running. Also, he is old.
H.E.Wolf
Here are the links to the two sets of results in OH.
August 2023, final count: NO (implicitly pro-choice) won.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/08/07/ohio-election-results-for-issue-1-aug-8-special-election/70542152007/
Nov. 2023 general election, in progress: YES on Issue 1 is the pro-choice position.
https://www.10tv.com/elections
Jackie
@Jeffro: Ooooh that means tomorrow’s Repug news programs are gonna be entertaining!😁
Alison Rose
If you want something non-political to watch, here’s a delightful video of some fuzzy little duckies going down a waterslide.
Barbara
@geg6: In Beaver? That really would be a wonderful outcome.
Alison Rose
@marcopolo: My schaden is freuding, indeed. LOLLLLL.
Kent
I have MSNBC playing in the background. The just announced that the House has just voted to censure Talib with 20 Democrats voting in favor of the motion.
Haven’t been following this issue that closely. But surprised that 20 Dems voted with the GOP.
HumboldtBlue
Cherelle Parker becomes the first woman Mayor of Philadelphia.
Anoniminous
@Kent:
And if they aren’t, in one way or another, an empty suit from a safe district they are bat-shit insane or both, e.g., Speaker of the House Johnson.
Kent
MSNBC obsessing about how the MS governor’s race is troubling for Democrats.
Huh?
Who in God’s name ever thought that a Democrat was going to win statewide in MS?
Alison Rose
@Kent: Anything to bang the “Dems in disarray” drum.
Jackie
@marcopolo: Another TIFG endorsed candidate bites the dust 😂😂😂
Is he tired of winning, yet?
Kent
Yes but that’s never stopped them from running before.
I mean Hershel Walker? He damn near won.
The GOP will never run out of candidates in this 50/50 country. And will never run short of people to vote for them.
Frankensteinbeck
@Czar Chasm:
Crossing them for you! May your star shine bright and the Democratic Party as well!
HumboldtBlue
@Kent:
On a night when Dems are winning across the board, CNN had Christie on to talk about… Trump.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Rose Weiss:
Ourselves, our kids and our neighbors all voted “Yes” to recall, so that’s eight more votes to recall.
CaseyL
@Kent: The MSM’s obsession with finding something that is Bad News for Democrats indicates just how full of shit they are.
columbusqueen
@Jeffro: Come on up, amigo! Guess I can finally use my cocktail & baking books featuring MJ.
Anoniminous
@Kent:
Since the GREAT REPUBLICAN WAVE they’ve been pushing for the last month failed to show it’s either that or they have to talk about the Evil Demoncrat conspiracy to sap and impurify American’s precious bodily fluids
In short, they have air time to fill and only bullshit to fill it with.
Alison Rose
Nice statement from Danica Roem.
HumboldtBlue
Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam has won a seat on the New York City Council
BellyCat
@Tom Levenson: Dem judges ahead in all state courts. :-)
BlueGuitarist
@Alison Rose:
looks like the reported vote in Feggans district, 97, is the Election Day vote, with the mail ballots and early in person vote yet to be counted
Chetan Murthy
@Alison Rose: “fixing roads” Ha! Love it!
Ramona
@Anoniminous: They have pledged their loyalty to bullshit. They could have chosen differently. Methinks, the wealthy pulling the strings (looking at you, somewhat new owner of CNN) remember well the world’s history of revolutions.
Citizen Alan
@Kent: I just thank god I’m out of there. Right now, I’m living in Tom Fucking McClintock’s district and it’s still better than the most “liberal” parts of Mississippi. Pressley was literally the most popular Democratic politician in this state in the last three decades. And he lost to a weasel who stole money from Medicaid to pay for a volleyball court for Brett Favre’s daughter. The only way Mississippi will ever get any better is if the Yankees invade it again and reinstate Reconstruction.
HumboldtBlue
Rose Weiss
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Excellent – I live outside city limits so I couldn’t vote. But I have plenty of reasons to dislike the mayor and current city councilors because of other issues, like the St. Tim’s brouhaha.
marcopolo
@Kent: Really. These folks are so pathetic. On CNN just now David Chalian, “The Democratic brand isn’t in trouble. Joe Biden is in trouble.” Yeah, no.
Soprano2
@Kent: CNN is talking about it too. I think it’s mostly performative crap.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: Agree. I just read that on Wasserman’s twitter a few minutes ago. He thinks the votes should goin favor of Michael Feggans, but of course we never know until the votes are counted.
frosty
@frosty: I looked. With 22% counted, the good guys who don’t want to wreck my school district are winning. Hope it sticks!
kalakal
I have to love these “Red waves”. The MSM has been forecasting electoral doom for the Dems for the last couple of years yet somehow in election after election, referendum after referendum the reverse has happened. The GOP believe banning abortion is a vote winner, the MSM don’t think it’s an important issue, so it can’t be that surely? //s
The most basic political skill is having a feel for the mood the electorate. These nitwits can’t pickup on the fact that they have pissed off half the electorate
Captain C
@Splitting Image:
Headline hopefully seen in November 2024:
Bad News for Democrats: Biden-Harris heading to 350+ Electoral Votes, Dems to Control Both Houses of Congress.
marcopolo
@BlueGuitarist: So David Wasserman said this is the race most likely to put the Ds in control of the statehouse. Based on the pattern of mail/absentee ballots counted so far (some of this is what is still outstanding). We’ll see. Fingers crossed.
Edited to add that if Feggans is the deciding win then BJ donors can take as many bows as they want.
WaterGirl
ooh! ooh! ooh!
This is such good news!
Barbara
NYT just called PA Supreme Court race for McCaffery (D). Yay team blue!
Frankensteinbeck
@marcopolo:
There will be a beaten track for people to piss on Trump’s pauper’s grave and people will still be telling me that Trump is a kingmaker.
Barbara
@marcopolo: 43% outstanding for mail and early is kind of astounding.
Tom Levenson
@Barbara: Yes!
My ability to find ulcer-material in every corner is intact, but this is a very pleasant result.
Kent
Looks like pot has come back to beat abortion in Ohio.
There must be some weird crosstabs in that state because abortion was way ahead in the early returns.
I wonder what the profile is of:
Because seems like lots of both in OH.
dkinPa
@geg6: Hurray for Beaver County!
wjca
Overconfidence?
frosty
@Citizen Alan: I’m sorry to see those results. I had not high, but some hopes for Presley, especially based on the corruption that Tate Reeves swims in. I’m glad you got yourself out. Maybe it’s time for another Great Migration.
WaterGirl
So far, so good!
WaterGirl
@Citizen Alan: I haven’t seen that race called yet. Who called it?
WaterGirl
@Kent: I don’t think we’ll really know on that until all the votes are in. For awhile the numbers were exactly the same for both – maybe half an hour ago?
frosty
@WaterGirl: Whew!!!!!!
BlueGuitarist
@WaterGirl: go blue!
WaterGirl
@frosty: I know! That one makes me so happy.
WaterGirl
I don’t want to go to bed until I see that Dems won the majority in the House of Delegates and until I see our two VA candidates through to the end. But I’m getting
tiedtired!geg6
@Barbara:
That’s what I’m seeing, but lots of votes left to count. This county has crushed me too many times to get too far over my skis, but my fingers are crossed.
Ramona
Are there any reported estimates of voter turnout as a percentage of registered voters? I got two form-like letters with a reminder to vote in Virginia and early voting hours and dates from two people at the same address in Germantown, PA and the letter(s) said that only 49% of registered Virginia voters showed up at the polls in 2021. My early voting place was slammed in 2021.
marcopolo
Whelp, Ben Tribbett (@notlarrysabato) just projected Feggans to win HD97 & Ds to get control of the VA House. Pop the corks everyone, champagne all around
He’s been a little ahead of everyone else but so far has been correct on all his projections.
CaseyL
@WaterGirl:
As in, “fit to be”? 😉
That’s how I was, watching the returns come in. Can hardly believe how well the Democrats have done. Breathing a big ol’ sigh of relief.
kalakal
@WaterGirl: indeed! Wasn’t Carluccio desperately trying to pretend she wasn’t anti-abortion while taking millions in funding from anti-abortion groups?
Ohio Mom
@Kent: Kay is in the second group, pro-choice and anti-pot. But I am not sure how far you can extrapolate from that.
frosty
@geg6:
Fingers and toes crossed. How is Beaver Co usually? During one of Obama’s elections, the precinct captain told me if York goes 34% D, the Dems win statewide. My reaction? “34%??? That’s the best we get????”
New Deal democrat
Per Ben Tribbett, Michael Feggans has won in VA Beach, giving Dem’s an outright majority in the House of Delegates.
Democrats will control both Houses of the VA Legislature.
kalakal
@New Deal democrat: Please let it be so
WaterGirl
Yippee!
khead
Wasserman has seen enough in VA.
HumboldtBlue
geg6
And I’m crushed again. Fuck this hillbilly county. Might as well be West fucking Virginia. Julian should have won. This place sucks. At least our municipal candidates have done well.
WaterGirl
@geg6: Wait, who lost in PA? The Dem won the SC seat.
WaterGirl
@HumboldtBlue: Dems actually have the majority now. NOT JUST TIED!
marcopolo
Just remember pre-Dobbs the R line was always, “Send it back to the states! Let the people vote!” Well, the people have now voted in 7 states (4 of which were red) and protecting abortion is a perfect 7 for 7. There may be one or two or three Gileads out there but by the end of this decade abortion is going to stay (return to being) legal in the vast majority of our country. That makes me extraordinarily happy.
Mike in NC
I tune out for half an hour and suddenly there are 230 comments. I need to get better.
frosty
@geg6:
I’m so sorry. Still waiting to see if my school board results hold up. 33% reporting now.
Apparently SYCSD is #2 in the state. I didn’t know that; all I knew is that they were much more responsive to my dyslexic and ADHD kids than Baltimore County was before we moved here.
Honus
@BlueGuitarist: Feggans is up by 1,000 votes now, 52-48%
Chetan Murthy
@Mike in NC: I think you can just skip to the bottom, b/c most are variants on “yay!” and “whew!”
Rose Weiss
Yay! All 3 city council jerks were recalled! I have to admit I’m holding a grudge against these people because the community radio station where I volunteer has been treated very badly by the city. They heard that some of us were Dems and then did everything they could to undermine the station.
Omnes Omnibus
Ben Tribbet is saying Dems take VA House.
BlueGuitarist
@marcopolo:
Huzzah! Michael Feggans for the majority. Still waiting on Kim Adams, the other very well-chosen BJ candidate.
Congrats WaterGirl and Balloon-Juice!
Also great to see your nym more regularly MP.
ETA @Honus @Omnes thanks!
Timill
@BlueGuitarist: NYT now has Feggans at 52% with >95% counted.
Adams 51% on 87% counted.
HumboldtBlue
@marcopolo:
That was Christie’s line on CNN when they were interviewing his silly ass instead of focusing on Dem wins. His whole shtick is that it’s a state issue, as if anyone at any level has the right on how a woman deals with her body.
geg6
@frosty:
It’s been very GOP, with a slow trend since the Reagan years and peaking during W’s maladministration. County Dems were moribund until Trump and have been very active since 2016. Making some small, slow inroads. In good news tonight, we now have a Dem DA, which is quite a change. And at least one of the GOPers who beat my former student for county commissioner is a moderate of the old school Chamber of Commerce branch. Literally. He used to be the president of the county CofC.
No one won a countywide office in a blowout, so I see that as progress.
geg6
@WaterGirl:
I’m talking about my county elections. Happy about the statewide results.
H.E.Wolf
@BlueGuitarist:
Seconding all of that!
Also… your starry GOTV postcards made the difference in a few places, I bet.
BlueGuitarist
@frosty:
speaking of school boards, Blue Virginia reports that in Albermarle “Dem-endorsed Allison Spillman appears to have defeated Antonin Scalia’s right-wing daughter, Meg Bryce”
prostratedragon
@Suzanne: And your alternative to the prom is being thrown into a pit for four years with an option to extend.
WaterGirl
WaterGirl
@geg6: I’m sorry, were they school board elections, or even bigger than that?
dkinPa
@geg6: Oh, darn. Sorry to hear that. 😭
Martin
@frosty: Democrats being down 9 points in fucking Mississippi is still fairly encouraging.
HumboldtBlue
L. Louise Louis has some feelings to share.
Ksmiami
@Martin: Rick Wilson’s Threads line of the night- “Hey GOP, being up in Mississippi isn’t the flex you think it is.”
BlueGuitarist
@H.E.Wolf:
That is very sweet of you to say. Credit to you & WG & the whole BJ postcard and donor and music and good cheer team.
geg6
@WaterGirl:
County commissioners and row offices.
Citizen Alan
@Martin: Again, I remind you — The most popular Dem politician in Mississippi of the last 30 years lost by 9 points to a guy who stole money from Medicaid to pay for a volleyball court for Brett Farve’s daughter. We are far more likely to see Mississippi be rendered outright uninhabitable by climate change in the next 100 years than to see it become even purple, let alone blue, in that same time.
Chetan Murthy
@Citizen Alan: Can I just say, I’m glad you’re in California. I think you said Fresno ?
Citizen Alan
@Chetan Murthy: Yep. One of the more conservative parts of CA, but still a vast improvement.
Kent
My 85 year old mother would be if she lived in OH and not OR.
I’m curious about the anti-abortion pro-pot voters. What do they look like? Fundies who like to get high on the side?
BlueGuitarist
Not Larry Sabato says
82 is Kim Adams.
Looks like just mail ballots left there. And provisionals.
H.E.Wolf
With 90% of the votes counted, Yes on Issue 1 in OH is within spitting distance of 2 million YES votes, of about 3.5 million votes cast.
Although it’s way too soon to predict next November’s results, I think this bodes well for pro-choice US Sen. Sherrod Brown’s re-election in 2024.
frosty
@geg6: Fuck. The Moms For Liberty candidates won with 100% counted. Kiss the schools goodbye. There goes my property value.
To reiterate: fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck. I want to move back to Maryland.
H.E.Wolf
@BlueGuitarist:
Credit to us all, you included.
GOTV playlist contributors, too! ETA it is definitely bedtime for me; I missed that BlueGuitarist had already included the music peeps.
Wishing us all a good night, and an even bigger celebration this time next year.
Kent
We moved from Waco TX to the Vancouver WA area.
There is an ENORMOUS difference between being in a purple/blue neighborhood in a red state, and being in a purple/red neighborhood in a blue state.
We have Republicans win local races around here. Hell, until 2022 our Congresswoman here in the WA-3rd was GOPer Jaime Herrera Beutler. But there is only so much annoyance the local GOP can create when your state is solidly blue. It creates an enormous firewall for the local GOP insanity and pretty much neuters them.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: Thanks for that. I guess it’s time for me to go to bed.
Come on Good Kim, you deserve this, and Evil Kim who ran the fake abortion clinic deserves NOTHING GOOD.
Ken
REPUBLICAN 1: “So what have these five straight defeats taught us?”
REPUBLICAN 2: “Don’t let young people, women, and minorities vote.”
REPUBLICAN 1: “Very good.”
TriassicSands
@marcopolo:
I think what they really meant was get rid of Roe, which would send it back to the states, where all the right wing states could ban in the legislature. Then, would come the national ban,* because it was no longer a constitutional issue.
I doubt they ever gave any thought to citizen initiatives.
*After the Republicans had regained control of the House, Senate, and presidency — by cheating as much as they could.
Jean
@New Deal democrat: I am thrilled! I hoped for the senate at least. My granddaughter is at George Mason and is part of the leadership of Democrats at Mason. She’s exhausted. So much work by the young people who are part of NextGen, which she is also a member of. i’m glad they and WE can celebrate the wins tonight in VA.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: Yay!!!
marcopolo
For folks who want to look at some winners at lower levels:
Amanda Litman’s account on nitter: at least 100 folks from Run For Something have won so far tonight (lots of school board folks it looks like); she said there are still 150+ outstanding.
Shannon Watts (Mom’s Demand Action) via nitter: a list of Mom’s Demand Action volunteers who have won tonight (again, a lot of school board races).
This has been a much better night than I anticipated.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: MORE YAY!!!
Alison Rose
NYT shows Adams at 49.7 with 92% in. This one’s gonna be a nail-biter.
Captain C
@Kent: “The Democrats, having run the table everywhere else, including several long-shot upsets, have lost this Trump +60 district by 2 points. Clearly, they in general, and Biden in particular, are completely doomed in 2024.”
mdblanche
@C Stars: Yesterday? I’m pretty sure it was this afternoon.
Citizen Alan
@Barbara: IIRC, wasn’t control of the House itself decided by that coin toss?
KrackenJack
Per the WaPo Live Election thread:
Hardee har har har
206inKY
@Hoppie: Not true—Steve Beshear is from far western Kentucky in Dawson Springs and it’s not a political dynasty, just a dad (Steve) and son (Andy). Steve made a name for himself in Louisville and Lexington, not the Eastern Kentucky mountains.
In 2019 Andy lost tiny Letcher County on the Virginia border by 53/45 to Bevin. This year he won it 52/48. Here’s why:
https://www.themountaineagle.com/articles/governor-beshear-has-been-a-great-friend-to-letcher-county-he-deserves-our-votes/
Betsy
@Ramona: Your state BoE should have this (percentage turnout) alongside the specific election’s results on their website , and it won’t be an estimate.
Ramona
@Betsy: Thanks Betsy. I’ll look it up…
Manyakitty
@Jeffro: sounds like a meetup plan to me!