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2026 Elections: To the Midterms and Beyond!

Good to see Dump's stooge lose in IA-Gov.

NM is going to have the first Native American governor in history. She beat Alex Bregman's dad (?!) in the primary.
 
Kepler said:
Good to see Dump's stooge lose in IA-Gov.

NM is going to have the first Native American governor in history. She beat Alex Bregman's dad (?!) in the primary.
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Meh, the guy who actually won the GOP nomination is probably worse. Feenstra was an empty shell, Lahn strikes me as more of a true believer.

Either way, though, if Rob Sand can't win this fall, then Iowa has truly become a lost cause. Because as much as he has his own flaws, he's the best D candidate we've had since Vilsack was governor nearly 30 years ago, and the state is doing so poorly on a multitude of metrics that if it doesn't flip this year, it never will. The GOP certainly thinks it's possible, since they passed, and Reynolds signed, a bill curtailing the governor's powers this last session.

Best case scenario is the Dems take 3 of the 4 house seats, the Senate seat, the governor's mansion, and cut the GOP's leads in the state leg in half.

Worst case scenario the Dems lose everything and we officially become the new Mississippi.

My guess at this point 5 months out, we get the governor and 1 of the other state wide offices, lose the senate seat and the other 2 statewide offices, get 2 of the 4 house seats, and make minor in roads into the state leg, primarily from the Des Moines suburb seats.
 
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The problem is that the youth vote has largely given up. I believe I saw that turnout among the 18-24 crowd in Los Angeles was a whopping 6% (overall turnout will be about 34%). They have no one to vote for, no one who represents them or even tries to; politicians scorn them, older generations mock them and even when they do vote the candidate they support inevitably loses to an octogenarian who still thinks a good house costs $100K. And then they get blamed when someone like the child rapist war criminal gets elected. The system is totally rigged against anyone from a lower class (which defines all but a handful of them) so why bother?
 
Kepler said:
More variance within than between.

Generations are a marketing gimmick. Just another way to say yay me boo you.

They are grievance astrology.

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"Arrogant and egotistical."

Well that certainly is a lie.
 
Kepler said:
More variance within than between.

Generations are a marketing gimmick. Just another way to say yay me boo you.

They are grievance astrology.

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I am 100% not vindictive (in fact often the far opposite to my own demise) but I am 100% intense. My wife (also a scorpio) on the other hand...Add that she's female and Thai and whoa Nellie. For those of you clutching pearls she would 100% agree. 🤣
 
Dr. Mrs. is also a Scorpio and she is VERY intense.

As for vindictive, given what she has to work with in me I'll let that pass.
 
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A Democratic governor just vetoed union rights, cheaper drugs, and ICE protections. Meanwhile a democratic socialist mayor is delivering on everything. The contrast is incredible.
Last year, two Democrats won big races on the same promise: make life more affordable.
One was Zohran Mamdani in New York City. The other was Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. Five months in, their records could not be more different, and that difference is the whole future of the Democratic Party.
Let's start with what Mamdani has actually done.
He established free childcare for 2-year-olds. He closed an inherited $12 billion budget deficit and still delivered a balanced budget. He passed a wealth tax on luxury second homes. He created a Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants that has already clawed back over $34 million for renters and forced repairs in more than 6,000 apartments.
He went after junk fees and subscription traps. He filled 100,000 potholes. He invested $50 million in parks, built new bus and bike lanes, and announced new rec centers and youth clinics. He's even opening a city-owned grocery store to fight food prices.
In other words, he's spent five months proving that government can actually make your life better.
Now here's what Spanberger has done with her time.
She vetoed a bill giving half a million Virginia public workers the right to unionize, the exact same veto her Republican predecessor made.
She vetoed extending Medicare's negotiated drug prices to more Virginians, handing a win to pharmaceutical lobbyists. She vetoed the right to class-action lawsuits against corporations.
She vetoed stopping ICE from making warrantless arrests in courthouses and hospitals.
She vetoed legal marijuana, which has supermajority support in her state.
Organized labor said she sent workers "the crystal clear message that they are no better off than they were under a Republican governor."
That's the trap, and it's bigger than one governor.
When a Democrat vetoes your top priority to please the exact same corporate interests a Republican would, you start to believe both parties are the same. And when people believe that, they stop voting, or worse, they hand themselves to a strongman who promises to burn the whole "corrupt" system down.
Beating MAGA once is not enough. We learned that the hard way. If Democrats win and then govern like Spanberger instead of Mamdani, we land right back in the jaws of fascism, one election later.
Deliver for people, or lose everything. It really is that simple.
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Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson and Hannah Pingree have embraced the ranked choice voting model and cross-endorsed each other, asking supporters to rank them 1-2-3 on the ballot for the Democratic nomination for governor.
 
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I'm not convinced that RCV is some sort of magic bullet for republican (small 'r') democracy, but in our two-party presidential system it would be an improvement.
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Yes, there is no magic bullet but it's a good feature. It actually helps everybody, because while breaking the major parties' monopoly on media attention it gives them a solid barometer of whether they are missing the sweet spot too far left or right. The Dems would know they have to move farther left. The GOP... well who knows? TBH they are probably right in the sweet spot. What I have learned over the last 50 years of politics is there are at minimum 25% of Americans who welcome a white nationalist Christian fascism.
 
Kepler said:
Yes, there is no magic bullet but it's a good feature. It actually helps everybody, because while breaking the major parties' monopoly on media attention it gives them a solid barometer of whether they are missing the sweet spot too far left or right. The Dems would know they have to move farther left. The GOP... well who knows? TBH they are probably right in the sweet spot. What I have learned over the last 50 years of politics is there are at minimum 25% of Americans who welcome a white nationalist Christian fascism.
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I tried to warn you guys. I’m sure it was 17 board iterations ago and therefore lost to history, but I have a distinct memory of a post I made in November 2004 as “The Chorale” was expressing shock but more poignantly, confusion at the reelection of GWB. To that point, I had lived my entire 32 years in Tennessee, rural New York, rural Vermont, and Texas. I chided the USCHO community at large for just not understanding how truly conservative the conservative portions of the country really are.

In hindsight, I was wrong - they’re even more conservative than *I* realized.
 
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After the 2004 election then-Congressman Tom Allen met with a small group of volunteers. "It's time to reassess the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. He had a chance to let them go, and he blew it." He was kidding.

Kind of.
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Yeah, but every time I think this, I quickly also think, "You know what? Fuck 'em - we won. If the America-hating traitors are still mad about it, that's their problem." :cool:
 
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