We started impeaching Trump and Warren rose, then we won the KY governor's race and total control of the Virginia government. The woman who flipped Trump the bird and got fired, won.
We are standing up for what we believe in and we're winning.https://t.co/enrqylj359
— Adam Jentleson ???? (@AJentleson) November 6, 2019
Guess who’ll now be the county Supervisor for the district that includes Trump National? It’s @julibriskman! pic.twitter.com/H4SeLv23iT
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) November 6, 2019
Briskman lost her job over that photo in 2017.
“Two years ago I was fired for standing up to the backwards agenda of Donald Trump," she told me tonight. "But now my neighbors in Algonkian District have backed me up and rejected the Trump agenda." https://t.co/8ruEybq4mg
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) November 6, 2019
RT @TomJackmanWP: Loudoun County has gone from electing Eugene Delgaudio, a leader in nation's anti-gay rights movement, to @JuliBriskman, who flipped off Trump outside his golf course, in 8 years. That's the story of No. Va.'s seismic political shift to the left. #StateofNoVa
— Robert McCartney (@McCartneyWP) November 6, 2019
Remember the Virginia candidate who lost in a random drawing after she and her Republican opponent got the same number of votes after a recount? She won tonight. https://t.co/Vi9doCjibl
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) November 6, 2019
Since Trump took office, Democrats have flipped governorships in: Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Illinois, Maine, Wisconsin, Michigan, and now, Kentucky.
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) November 6, 2019
One, big important point about the Kentucky and Virginia results: Impeachment did not turn out to be the issue Republicans thought it would be to fire up conservatives in rural areas. Democrats, on the other hand, are clearly still fired up.
— Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoNPR) November 6, 2019
HEALTHCARE NERDS REJOICE! #KYGov https://t.co/NURFZnDER3
— Charles #GetCovered-ba (@charles_gaba) November 6, 2019
Elections have consequences. Beshear just announced in his first week in office he will rescind Bevin's Medicaid-gutting waiver.
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) November 6, 2019
300,000 people, 9 percent of Kentucky's population, can't vote because of felony conviction, including 26% of African Americans, highest black disenfranchisement rate in country. Andy Beshear pledged to restore voting rights to 140,000 with executive order https://t.co/CrOrbLwoNd
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 6, 2019
We just beat the NRA in their own home state!
Today, Virginia voters elected gun safety champions to take back the General Assembly and address gun violence.
Read a statement from @GabbyGiffords on this historic victory.?? #vapol #valeg https://t.co/ez1hNst0Zk
— Giffords (@GiffordsCourage) November 6, 2019
DID YOU KNOW: Democrats have won the city council majority in Columbus, Indiana, hometown of VP Pence and Congressman Pence, for the first time since 1981. #ElectionDay
— John Dissauer (@johndissauer) November 6, 2019
Mitch is going to be pinned down and won’t spread any money around to vulnerable colleagues- that’s a win for the DSCC.
— ???.J. Carrillo (@ajcarrillo) November 6, 2019
kentucky getting rid of bevins is a good thing
virginia taking back the house is a good thingu can stay angry and ragey and cynical and worried and also recognize these are good things
— darth™ (@darth) November 6, 2019
How can we get Trump to campaign for more Republicans?
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 6, 2019
NotMax
Putting the blue back into Bluegrass.
OzarkHillbilly
Not Blech.
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
OzarkHillbilly
He reneges on every deal he makes. Even this low hanging fruit. Oh well, nobody is missing out on the cold Quarter pounders and fries anyway.
satby
Good morning everyone! South Bend predictably elected the Democratic candidate, and in a breakthrough the city council (called the Common Council) will for the first time be majority female! Looking at the returns for a lot of the local towns, there were a surprising number of little dots of blue breaking out in red Indiana. Not enough, but still progress.
NotMax
Expect much ink and even more pixels to be sacrificed in the immediate future attempting to spin that Bevin is a squishy RINO lacking the guts to run as a “real conservative.”
NotMax
@satby
Rs in most of Indiana still discombobulated from that newfangled changing of the clocks thing?
:)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Well the new version of Balloon Juice is supposed to arrive in the next few days, that should put some Blech back in your morning.
JPL
Out of the three council members that I supported, two won and the third is in a runoff. The runoff was expected since four were running for that post.
Sab
We got rid of the two Republicans on our non-partisan school board. Anyone who was okay with Kasich’s education cuts doesn’t deserve to be on a school board. I’m glad the other voters in my town agreed.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Good morning, here’s a pretty sunset.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I like what I’ve seen of the new site. Can’t wait to be rid of the stupid ad that keeps popping up at the bottom on this site.
Edit: ad, though ass would describe it well too
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: that’s an amazing sunset!
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I fear it’s arrival even more than the 2nd Coming of Jesus.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Very good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Nice.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Nice.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Good call.
bemused senior
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Beautiful sunset…I like the Orion pictures even better.
Just One More Canuck
@OzarkHillbilly: it’s just as mythical
Cermet
As I said very early morning – its a very good day (and especially for democrats)! Strange, but a good day for the average (stupid) thug voter because they will lose fewer benifits and even gain some back thanks to local dems.
JAFD
Good morning, everyone,
Survived fourteen hours in ‘The Devil’s Playground’ yesterday (The territory of Newark Fire Dept’s Engine 5 includes the local ice hockey team’s arena, ergo…). Aside from a couple of people saying they were listed as ‘Vote by Mail’ in error (and who got provisional ballots), things went smoothly. But woulda been nice yf smore voters showed up
In more good news, the county government in Delaware County, Pa flipped for the first time since the GOP took over from the Whigs
https://www.delcotimes.com/news/local/dems-sweep-all-delco-council-races-in-historic-rout/article_f37d634e-0014-11ea-8fc9-5b45f1b62ada.html
Have great day, everyone !
BTW, any Jackals going to Philcon – the Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention (philcon.org) – this weekend ?
WereBear
@satby: I honestly doubted I would see progress and this is good news.
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: He’s so petty. He radiates it like a smell. Perhaps back when his repulsivility was held more in check, at least in public, the con worked better?
Kay
They need to be still more subservient to Donald Trump.
OzarkHillbilly
@Just One More Canuck: Yeah, we’ve been hearing about it for a long time now, haven’t we?
“It’s coming soon! Any day now! Just one more round of testing! We have just a few more glitches to work out! It’s almost ready!” Come to think of it, is Water Girl a real person? I mean, not even a picture? She could be just a bot.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
“low hanging fruit”? But it was supposed to be an “epic” meal! Do you know how much thought and preparation goes into hand-selecting at least five Big Macs? Plus, there’s the ketchup! And that’s just for Fat Bastard! [Of course, the “winner” will have to get his own Big Macs. Or maybe get some sliders from White Castle. But at least he’ll get to eat them in the presence of Dear Leader, and bask in His orange glow.
SFAW
@Kay:
Chuckles Todd and the FTFTFNYT: “Dems in Disarray!!!!”
Chyron HR
@Kay:
Machiavellian communications genius Brad Parscale wailed, “How are we supposed to convince Republican senators to keep supporting Trump? They don’t even know what Facebook is!!”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby:
@OzarkHillbilly:
@Baud: Thanks.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
There’s tons of corruption and lying in Trump Inc. but I think this one is bad, even for them. It’s just so incredibly cynical.
There are lots and lots of state laws on contests and sweepstakes- they are heavily regulated. I don’t know how that works with campaign finance though.
Honus
Somebody below half-sarcastically mentioned Trump’s ability to GOTV for democrats. Turnout in my rural albemarle county Virginia district (Free Union) was nearly 60% in an off-off year election.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@bemused senior: Thanks, I went to Red Rock last night, I just posted a small set at my patreon, it includes a wide shot of Orion. I had a problem up at Red Rock(the battery in my skytracker died) so I ended up taking one less shot than I’d planned.
joel hanes
Heaping a tiny bit more schadenfreude:
Loudon County, VA, where flip-Trump-the-bird Brinksman won her supervisor race, is the site of the Washington DC Trump National Golf Club*.
With this election, the board of supervisors for Loudon County flipped from majority-Republican to decisively-majority-Democratic.
* this is the golf club in which the Trumpies erected the phony “River Of Blood” lying-about-history monument. It’s also the golf club where one of the first things they did after taking over was to cut down hundreds of mature trees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_National_Golf_Club_(Washington,_D.C.)
Kay
@SFAW:
If they had just told the truth- “this is an unpopular governor, it may or may not be a referendum on Trump”. But they didn’t. They couldn’t resist announcing it was a referendum on impeachment, I think because it looked like Bevin would win. The NYTimes stated it as fact in a headline before the race. All people are really asking is that they at least be consistent in their bullshit. They can’t even do that.
NotMax
“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.”
– Richard Nixon
(Actual quote.)
Honus
@SFAW: of course the republicans have and have had great “message discipline” (propaganda). People are finally getting the message and don’t like it.
mad citizen
@NotMax: It cuts across party lines. I arrived in St Louis yesterday from Indiana, looked at my garmin and it was 2 hours ahead of local central time. Guess I need to plug it into the app. There was talk in my elevator the other day that we should never change the clocks. Just let the time be what it is year round.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Nothing says “milking the rubes” like milking the rubes with the same scam time and again and again and again.
Baud
@mad citizen:
Let time be time.
Jeffro
It’s almost like Dems across the country were offering good governance or a wholesale rejection of trumpovism or both. Or something.
Looking forward to all of the snooze media’s “not so hot takes” today. Bevin was a bad candidate, VA demographics, etc etc. sure…but let’s talk about the obvious, too ?
RandomMonster
Have Obama say Trump shouldn’t campaign for more Republicans.
SFAW
@Honus:
Not enough of them — yet — but I remain hopeful. If they weren’t so tribal/racist, and had enough brain cells to rub together, they’d conclude that voting for Rethugs will only impoverish them, and eventually kill them.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: As a friend from Arizona said, “we don’t fuck with our time”.
Baud
Prepare yourselves for another round of media stories of how Trump’s base is sticking with him.
p.a.
Remember Sally Field’s “you love me…”?
D Trump: “you loathe me, you really loath me.”
Not enough self-awareness though.
NotMax
@mad citizen
Indiana is a special case, having been on the fence when it comes to what time it is for 100 years.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
This one they wouldn’t necessarily know though- it’s so few “winners”. It never would have occurred to me they weren’t awarding the prize. If I were donating I would just assume I lost.
We had a big trial here 20 years ago on a scam company that was supposedly awarding a free swimming pool to selected people who called in for a free consult on getting a swimming pool. I was surprised how much state law there was on it. But you could operate the scam a long time before people found out. The reporter in this Trump scam seemed to get suspicious because there were no photographs of the winner’s meals, like there were for the other campaigns.
satby
@Baud: like burrs on a dog.
But there’s less of his base than there was before. And even if they’re motivated, if our voters are more motivated and turn out, we win in more places; so that’s a good lesson from last night.
Now to knock Moscow Mitch out!
Chris Johnson
All this comes as a complete (and welcome) surprise to me.
Not the victories in Kentucky etc. because that simply underscores my sense that people are NOT ‘mostly hateful racist monsters who will happily immiserate themselves just to make a point or hurt some minority somewhere’. I think people were lied to. They believed Democrats would just ship their jobs off to China in the name of globalization, and they were lied to by Trump and Republicans and told that going/staying red and clapping harder would give them everything they wanted.
And they were lied to, sheerly purely lied to by wealthy fuckers who just took them to the cleaners because the Republican leadership ALSO believed their people were nothing but hate-filled cretins who would believe anything they were told.
Nope.
The part that surprises me, really shouldn’t. I’m surprised that I heard NO INKLING of any of this before the election. Not even from places like this. The myth of Republican dominance is that strong? I sure heard nothing about it from any social media or regular media. I mean, fuck ‘battleground states’ like Wisconsin or Michigan or Texas. It’s like, ok let’s have Kentucky. Fucking KENTUCKY of all places. No sign of any of it until the hammer comes down.
I’m starting to believe in voting again. The thing about gerrymandering and corruption is that it can get overwhelmed by a wave election with numbers beyond what can be cheated away. The thing about a wave election is that when you lie to people bad enough and treat them like complete assholes for long enough and seek to outright kill them by taking away their livelihoods and protections and everything good in their environments, those people can revolt.
We can make 2020 the ‘fuck them ALL’ election. Let’s!
SFAW
@Jeffro:
“It’s OBVIOUS that the Dems SUPPRESSED THE VOTE!!!!”
debbie
@Sab:
My town passed a $#@# 9 mil school levy to make up for the people living in new, very expensive condos who just got a 15-year extension on their 70% tax abatements. In addition to the other new developments who got a 15-year extension on their 50% abatements. Fuckers.
Baud
@Chris Johnson:
A great many Republican voters are. That’s why Kentucky was close.
Kay
@Baud:
Once again the NYTimes stands out though. While it is true there are lots and lots of white working class who don’t vote – propensity to vote is connected to level of education, which is connected to income, I have never before seen political analysis that counts the pool of nonvoters as a strength for a campaign. Until this year, in the NYTimes. Trump has a secret weapon- it’s people who didn’t vote for him (or anyone) last time.
Again- they need to be consistent. If we’re no longer looking at people who actually vote but instead looking at “share of the population who might vote for a candidate” that should apply to Trump’s opponent too. It’s just nonsensical to me. They start with “likely voters” as the screen and then do this crazy jump where they say “and also include all white working class” Why bother with likely voters at all if we then dump in nonvoters as a strength, there at the end?
Shalimar
@Honus: Their discipline is still great. They all run from reporters in choreographed lockstep. The problem has been that there is no message that can get them out of the landfill of shit Trump stepped in without admitting he smells. Which he will not allow them to do.
Baud
@Kay:
I hadn’t heard about that. They really are garbage.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: The New York Times is garbage.
(Heard that somewhere.)
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
That’s the low hanging campaign fruit they couldn’t bring themselves to grab. A couple thousand dollars for vetting, transpo, food, and Voila! A photo op worth hundreds of thousands in free advertising on the front pages of red state newspapers. But they’d have to spend 2 or 3 thousand of “donny’s money” and he ain’t gonna OK that.
Shalimar
Re:Kentucky
I keep hearing about Kentucky being disastrous for the GOP. I love that take, but it isn’t really true. Republicans did fine except for Bevin. The only other Republican in the state with approval that low is McConnell. There will be pressure on him to retire. It would free up a lot of money for other states, because a random newcomer would win that race easily.
Kay
@Baud:
They want consistent extrapolation! Seems reasonable. As long as we’re extrapolating, let’s just go crazy with it and include someone other than potential Trump voters who didn’t vote. Democrats have nonvoters too.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: @?BillinGlendaleCA: They have their thumb on the scale for the R candidate even one as awful as the current occupant of the WH.
SFAW
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s CRAZY talk! That’s almost as crazy as saying that John Kelly is a racist prick.
[I’m sure I’m not the first person to note that schrodingers_cat was WAY ahead of the curve on Kelly.]
ETA: s_c beat me here, I see.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I fully expect the NYT will offer us an equally savvy analysis when Trump invites the Russian army to “observe” our elections.
debbie
@joel hanes:
I’d hate to think she’ll lead the drive to end any special treatment accorded to the club. //
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
I wonder if it’s that or if it’s that he actually hates people and doesn’t like to get near them. There’s something…fussy about Donald Trump. There’s no mingling with the masses. He’s comfortable way up high on the stage at his hate rallies. He doesn’t actually get close to the fans. That would be…icky.
OzarkHillbilly
@Chris Johnson:
Anyway, the thing you need to know about Matt Bevin is that he is such an asshole that a small but significant number of people who genuinely believe Obama was the antichrist and Trump anointed by God still pulled the lever for the other guy.
— Botswana Starfish Totally Not Blackmailing POTUS (@IRHotTakes) November 6, 2019
-Robert Farley.
JAFD
More good news.
The ‘Democrat backed by George Soros’ money’ won the District Attorney race in Delaware County, as well.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/delaware-county-council-race-democrats-republicans-20191106.html
One of the ‘reserved for minority party’ at-large seats on Philadelphia’s City Council flipped from Republican to Working Families.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/philly-city-council-at-large-kendra-brooks-working-families-party-republicans-20191106.html
(I lived most of my life in Philadelphia and suburbs, if noone else is going to herald the news from there…)
Baud
@Kay:
He hates his base. Have you ever seen him interact with them on a personal level? He’s always at a distance, on a stage.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Let them eat Wendy’s
SFAW
@JAFD:
Interesting headlines. I thought you were serious for a second, had to check to see if the Inquirer really pulled that.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I definitely think there is some of that there, he’s a noted germaphobe.
rikyrah
Bevin’s loss phucked up the Villagers
” The Democrats better not go to far with impeachment” scolding message that they were itching to push ???
Ken
@Kay: @Baud: It’s economics. Polls are now showing Trump losing by double digits to all the major Democratic candidates. That means the election will not be a horse-race story. So you have to add imaginary voters to Trump’s numbers, or else advertising revenues might drop.
(Well, unless the horses are 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify, and long-deceased farm animal Mr. Ed.)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ken: Willllberrr!
Ken
Oh, and let us not forget the poor reporters and political commentators, who deprived of the automatic horse-race narrative would have to think.
debbie
Five bucks says Bevins will be Trump’s next COS.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Or the way he sits at his empty desk with people standing behind and around the desk for those awkward photo ops?
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That is beautiful ??
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Thanks.
rikyrah
@Kay:
It’s just tacky. The rubes sent in their.coins. And,. they can’t pick one of them to have lunch with Dolt45??
It is a level of grift that.is just bad.
Low character
germy
gene108
@JAFD:
Live in South Jersey.
Really is nice to see the ‘burbs ditching Republicans.
It’s been building up, since the Bush, Jr years.
germy
Baud
Kudos to WaPo for doing headlines right.
germy
randy khan
I am so proud of my fellow Virginians this morning. Now we get to kill the Republican gerrymanders for the House of Delegates, State Senate and U.S. House completely in 2021. Taking control of the General Assembly was a monumental task because of those gerrymanders, so having a level playing field will be an enormous boon for the Dems.
Also, and kind of under the radar, Dem control of the General Assembly really increases the chances for the current strategy to ratify the ERA to take the next step, as just one more state is needed to cross the ratification threshold. (Normally, that would put the ERA into the Constitution, and maybe it does, but the amendment required ratification by a certain date, which is long past, so this really would just buy a ticket for the lawsuit to determine whether Congress can limit the time for ratification.)
O. Felix Culpa
@germy:
LOL. This is a happy day. On top of the KY and VA victories, ALL of my preferred candidates in local races won.
On a somewhat related note, does anyone have pointers to good research or successful programs on getting out the youth vote, including (especially!) Hispanic and working-class youth? I’m putting together a task force to formulate an action plan for 2020 and am looking for quality, data-based guidance. Thanks!
Ken
@randy khan:
I repeat my call from last night for Virginia to gerrymander so blatantly that not one Republican is elected. It may force the Supreme Court to reverse their recent rulings allowing partisan gerrymanders, which will be a net benefit to Democrats since the Republicans need the gerrymander. Also it will rub John Roberts’ face in it.
germy
Didn’t the Bible warn against this?
Aleta
@OzarkHillbilly: I bet the only pang in his heart is that he didn’t think of fraudulent contests years ago. No effort and no one’s the wiser.
If only they’d filled out fake winner names. (Curses! Foiled again!) Now they’ll have to get some actors up on a rally stage.
Kay
@Ken:
I do think it will be really close in the Trumpier Great Lakes states, but that’s always been rural v urban and about turnout, and it will be again. I also don’t think head to heads v Trump are worthwhile until D’s have a candidate. Bernie relied on those and it was just bullshit then and it’s bullshit now.
John S.
Some media outlets are still not willing to go gentle into that good night with their GOP-friendly narratives.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/11/06/election-2019-bevin-will-not-concede-virginia-democrats-win-and-other-things-we-learned/4173624002/
Kay
@germy:
I was pleased to see it though because they are a guaranteed corruption scandal. He now looks for the most corrupt people he can find in any sector, apparently. Be Best.
JAFD
Thing about the FTNYT. If you disregard the op-ed page and the ‘national political analysis’, they have a heckovalot of original national, international, and local reporting, nearly all of it reliable. There are a lot of newspapers around, if you discarded the wire-service copy and rewritten press releases from their ‘news hole’, you’d have barely enough left to giftwrap a pen-and-pencil set. (Does anybody give pen-and-pencil-sets as presents these days ??? )
Meanwhile, the Morning Bach on WQXR was the Prelude and Fugue No. 17, played by the Blue Aurora Saxophone Quartet. Wonders never cease….
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@WereBear: on TV they could edit Trump to look like a real human being. Probably why he baubles in his speeches, his directors just kept Trump talking until Trump accidentally said something normal they could use.
danielx
A very good morning…..Indianapolis incumbent Democratic mayor wins over Republican candidate in 71%-27% victory. Always have mixed feelings about Joe Hogsett because he was an Evan Bayh protegee, but you take your victories where you get them.
Raven Onthill
Meantime, we are still chewing our nails in “blue” Washington State. Thanks to the mail ballot, it may be days before we know how some close elections went.
Amir Khalid
The openly criminal gang currently trading as the “Republican” party is nothing like the Republican party of Abe’s time, is it? It seems to me that as the criminality and gangsterism get wider exposure these days, they are starting to put people off in a way that their compulsive cruelty and malice towards Americans — which they also never bothered to hide — could not. I wonder why that is.
In other news, my multiFX guitar pedal appears to have lost its marbles. I will try a factory reset, but I’m not optimistic that it will fix things. I may have to get another. Pout. (Because of where I live, this qualifies as a third-world problem. So there.)
RAVEN
@JAFD: I look at it this was, they RMNJ’s bitch and moan about all this shit as much as people here do. I’m going to read what-the-fuck ever I want AND I like Facebook.
stinger
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Orange is the new sunset! Magnificent.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Honus:
I remember reading this article written by an evangelical pollster talking about what they found about why the kids are overwhelmingly unbelievers and was the kids were quite familiar with the evangelical message, having had it constantly preached to them by family members and were utterly disgusted by it. Sounds like the GoP built on that success.
germy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-the-dead-cannot-escape-climate-change/
Alien Radio
@Aleta: , the winners would be David Denisson, John Barron…
Matt McIrvin
@Amir Khalid: Lincoln’s Republican Party didn’t survive the nineteenth century.
Original Lee
@germy: Wow. I guess we get to find out if the smallpox virus can survive in cemeteries long enough to infect people today.
Immanentize
I’m ready to see more GOP retirements as my Christmas present.
Gelfling 545
The Dem incumbent in our county executive race won a 3rd term & quite handily too in spite of the local paper trying to stir things up. Not unexpected but only 1 CE has previously won a 3rd term. Poloncarz is the guy who won against Chris Collins whose inept single term should have warned everybody about Collins but NY 27 will be NY 27. Interesting thing was that Dixon, the GOP candidate, insisted she was an independent even though virtually all her support $$$ came from the GOP committee. Are Republicans becoming just too toxic to admit affiliation?
Aleta
WaPo, about Lewiston, ME
Uncle Jeffy
Heading for SF in an hour and will hoist a glass of Kentucky bourbon when we get to our hotel. Would have had a glass last night but emptied our bottle of Woodford Reserve a few weeks earlier in a toast to Moscow Mitch and the snake that bites him
Richard Guhl
The GOP ought to be extremely worried about next year’s election. All around the country there are data points suggesting they’re in deep trouble in suburban areas. Here in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, the Democratic candidates won all four seats for County Commissioner and will control the board for the first time since 1981. And that’s with a significant increase in turnout in an off-year election.
And there’s plenty of evidence in Kentucky of that where turnout was up over 50% and Bevin lost the suburbs of Cincinnati.
This can spell big trouble for Mcsally in Arizona, Cornyn in Texas, and Tillis in North Carolina, as well as the Georgia Senator seats.
Chip Daniels
@NotMax:
Bevin was never a loyal Party member.
Miss Bianca
@satby: That is excellent news!
germy
@Kay:
Trump’s spiritual advisor’s husband was the keyboardist for Journey.
Another impeachable offense.
The Moar You Know
This is so key:
Governors become presidents. And this is “building a bench”, something Dems have forgotten how to do since Howard Dean. Glad to see us rebuilding the party.
zzyzx
@Raven Onthill: Yeah it was a bad day for mass transit in Washington. I really hate Tim Eyman.
For outsiders, Tim Eyman is a guy who hates any train/bus program so he keeps filing initiatives to destroy the funding. His main trick is to get the entire state to vote on a tax that only affects the Seattle region. Even though Seattle will say “Sure, we’re good with this,” it’s a weaker vote than many others and the rural areas overwhelm it. It’s frustrating.
The only good thing is that he isn’t careful with his initiatives and many get thrown out in court.
Brachiator
@The Moar You Know:
How can you say that Democrats have forgotten how to do what they actually seem to be doing? And Howard Dean is not magic.
We should savor the victory and keep moving. One thing that could be noted here is that Democrats are succeeding despite past efforts by the GOP to gerrymander districts so that they have the advantage with respect to state legislatures and can better field candidates for governor.
And of course, we are seeing the limits of Trump’s hectoring his base.
Good times.
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
Very interesting point. The GOP has morphed into the modern day equivalent of the Know Nothing Party:
Of course, these modern Know Nothings are anti-Muslim and anti-Hispanic, but otherwise just as noxious as their 19th century antecedents.
Raven Onthill
@zzyzx: He’s paid to do it, no? Isn’t there a group of very rich people which includes that wealthy guy who more-or-less owns downtown Bellevue who really badly don’t want public transit, probably because they’re a pack of screaming racists, and who doesn’t want to pay less for car tabs?
It’s like dodging bullets. We’re pretty good at it, but some connect, and who knows how much harm they will do?