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paranoid randroid posted:Beltway Candidate Wins Literal Beltway thats not really the case. the conservative guy had more virginia-specific support, the liberal guy had much more national-level support and he lost
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Vox Nihili posted:virginia is a blue state now actually blue or Washington blue where the state legislature is hotly contested outside the cities?
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Federalism wouldn't really reduce the number of elections. Even hyper-centralist France has elections for communes, departments and legislative/presidential.
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full disclosure, i just like saying "beltway"
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Agean90 posted:actually blue or Washington blue where the state legislature is hotly contested outside the cities? Yes.
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Vox Nihili posted:Yes. 
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Agnosticnixie posted:Federalism wouldn't really reduce the number of elections. Even hyper-centralist France has elections for communes, departments and legislative/presidential. it could. "the French colonial system is hosed up" isn't a great argument.
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didn't a poster just say virginia's legislature is still red af
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Blue states are mostly controlled by republicans at the local level because the dems loving suck locally, which is the case in virginia.
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also virginia's gubernatorial term limit law is idiotic
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northam won by co-opting most of perriello's platform while hitting him hard over the stupak amendment he voted for back during the aca days. i think he managed to muddle the waters to the point that he looked enough like a true progressive to steal enough of what should have been perriello's base
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Like a state comprised of maybe 55% democratic party-leaning voters would have a maybe a 95% chance that republicans control both levels of the state legislature.
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Joementum posted:the US has too many elections The US has too many piss-poorly managed elections.
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Concerned Citizen posted:northam won by co-opting most of perriello's platform while hitting him hard over the stupak amendment he voted for back during the aca days. i think he managed to muddle the waters enough that he looked enough like the true progressive to steal a big part of perriello's base he also won by being the current lt governor and being endorsed by the sitting governor, which is probably pretty good for name recognition and gets you a lot of status quo support Gavin Newsom gonna win lol
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Joementum posted:also virginia's gubernatorial term limit law is idiotic factual
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Vox Nihili posted:he also won by being the current lt governor and being endorsed by the sitting governor Can't wait to have a Nexus 5 running California
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Vox Nihili posted:he also won by being the current lt governor and being endorsed by the sitting governor well he had that advantage, didn't help that perriello's fundraising was weak as hell
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stewart doing this well is loving nuts
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As somebody who lived in the beltway during the time this happened, I think it's time to bring the beltway sniper back.
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Stexils posted:tony warhawk's pro skater
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ThndrShk2k posted:I think this is false. Better management doesn't solve the problem of weird timing for multiple elections. Texas has something like a dozen a year. Even noble and well managed Vermont has at least one election every year, and sometimes as many as five.
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It's time for everyone to tighten their beltways
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the US needs to be broken up my dude, my guy
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Vox Nihili posted:he also won by being the current lt governor and being endorsed by the sitting governor, which is probably pretty good for name recognition and gets you a lot of status quo support id rather have him confined to CA where he can't gently caress things up too much than let him in the senate
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Gringostar posted:id rather have him confined to CA where he can't gently caress things up too much than let him in the senate lol if you think making him governor is going to put a cap on his ambitions
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Joementum posted:Better management doesn't solve the problem of weird timing for multiple elections. Texas has something like a dozen a year.
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Homeless Friend posted:As somebody who lived in the beltway during the time this happened, I think it's time to bring the beltway sniper back. Make beltway bandits scared away
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ThndrShk2k posted:That's really more of an argument to organize the election schedule than to eliminate the number of elections. well my belief is that doing the former will lead to the latter
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could repeal the 17th amendment that would remove some elections this is a great idea
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Joementum posted:Better management doesn't solve the problem of weird timing for multiple elections. Texas has something like a dozen a year. This is true. There is no rhyme or reason to all of the little poo poo elections we have in Texas; it results in Texas having people that are complete idiots being in charge of our schools and other public institutions.
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Gringostar posted:id rather have him confined to CA where he can't gently caress things up too much than let him in the senate lmao dehumanize yourself and face to newsom 2024 or 2028
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hilltwitter on the former bush supporter winning the primary: https://twitter.com/isteintraum/status/874785418880970752
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we should do things locke-style and just have one election to decide our supreme god emperor. no elections after that
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