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For weird, low-key shake-ups, the candidates sponsored by the Pittsburgh DSA are doing fairly well at the moment. https://twitter.com/pghDSA/status/928087858732257281 In fact, Pittsburgh DSA is calling it for Mik Pappas to unseat Anita Prizio is the DSA and Our Revolution sponsored candidate for county council. She did get the Dem nomination to run against incumbent Edward Kress. The race is too close to call, All in all, I've got to hand it to Pitt's DSA to mobilize out for these "unimportant" elections. I know they pulled out all the stops for Pappas, and it really shows in beating the incumbent Democrat. * Note sure how unusual it is, but judges are allowed to run for both parties. Magistrates always run in contested elections (upper judges only face retention votes), so most go unchallenged as the Repub/Dem candidate. I honestly don't know which side Costa truly lies on, but his stance of being against judicial activism in landlord-tenant disputes makes me wonder.
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https://twitter.com/PostPolls/status/928052090123051009 'We didn't embrace trump hard enough, that's why Whites voted the same amount for Gillispie as they did for Trump and he actually made gains on black and latino voters.' The actual culprit seems to be more black voters. https://twitter.com/Play_More_KOF/status/928096564383502336
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mcmagic posted:The Trumpist Scum that Danica Roam beat tonight refused to shake her hand, to debate her and to call her by her proper gender. Can someone actually corroborate this or is it nonsenseo
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MSNBC completely making GBS threads on Trump and calling this a clear repudiation of Trumpism. 
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Office Pig posted:I am loving astonished about the Philly DA. There is no preparing for how loving whiny and pathetic the Philly PD is going to be over this.
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gowb posted:Can someone actually corroborate this or is it nonsenseo
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Right-wingers are already declaring that Virginia was always a blue state and they never really had a chance and Northam should have won by 20 so this is really a moral victory for them and  Delicious.
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Alter Ego posted:Right-wingers are already declaring that Virginia was always a blue state and they never really had a chance and Northam should have won by 20 so this is really a moral victory for them and So basically us when Congressman Bodyslam got elected and those other ones
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gowb posted:Can someone actually corroborate this or is it nonsenseo It was from CNN.
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gowb posted:Can someone actually corroborate this or is it nonsenseo It’s very true. He mocked reporters who referred to Roem as “her.” Bob Marshall is the epitome of scum and his loss makes this world better.
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TheScott2K posted:So basically us when Congressman Bodyslam got elected and those other ones Except Montana IS normally a red state and Gianforte SHOULD have won by a lot more than he did... Virginia is, at best, a swing-to-slight-lean-blue state until now.
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BirdOfPlay posted:* Note sure how unusual it is, but judges are allowed to run for both parties. Magistrates always run in contested elections (upper judges only face retention votes), so most go unchallenged as the Repub/Dem candidate. I honestly don't know which side Costa truly lies on, but his stance of being against judicial activism in landlord-tenant disputes makes me wonder.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:A Dem is not going to win Virginia by 10 points right now no matter how awesome they are. Maybe in 6 years. 
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oh for fucks sakes there are protesters in the crowd of Northam's victory speech
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https://twitter.com/SikhFeminist/status/928098716980039686
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Pro-Sanctuary protestors crashed Northam's victory speech. He earned that.
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Immigration protesters at Northam's victory speech. Good.
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I think a Latino Victory Fund Guy just tried to rush the stage. It didn’t go well.
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TheScott2K posted:So basically us when Congressman Bodyslam got elected and those other ones They are not equivalent at all. Montana is so red as gently caress that it WAS a surprise he didn't win by more. This victory in Virginia is decisive. There's no qualifications about it, nothing that the GOP can lie to themselves about to make them feel better. This was big.
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Nate Silver 10:25 PM To bring the point home a bit, Democrats have won — or are leading in — literally every race that Daily Kos Elections decided to highlight on its scoreboard tonight, except the 45th state Senate District in Washington state, where polls are still open. Some of those wins are by large margins, and some are narrow — but it’s a pretty comprehensive sweep so far.  This is incredible
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Endorph posted:iunno about refusing to shaking her hand or debating her but he ran ads referring to her as 'him' and 'he' so i wouldnt doubt the other two Jaysus
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my bony fealty posted:Your nightly reminder that Danica Roem, who just kicked bigot Bob Marshall's bigot rear end, is the frontwoman for this band
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I've never been so happy to eat crow. No one on Earth thought Northam had a chance to win by 9 loving points.
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Those voter breakdowns lead me to believe that the GOP is going to throw all of their resources into voter suppression in 2018 and 2020. White people are still awful.
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Mind_Taker posted:Those voter breakdowns lead me to believe that the GOP is going to throw all of their resources into voter suppression in 2018 and 2020. White people are still awful. They were already going to do that.
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everyone in this thread is cool thank you to those who campaigned this year. i really cannot articulate my appreciation for your efforts.
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Mind_Taker posted:Those voter breakdowns lead me to believe that the GOP is going to throw all of their resources into voter suppression in 2018 and 2020. White people are still awful.
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Mayor Bhalla boy I hope that's pronounced like "balla" so my lame joke makes sense FizFashizzle posted:that's a sikh gain for the left 
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mcmagic posted:They were already going to do that. Well to be precise they have been doing this for decades.
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It's not as exciting but a lot of Connecticut towns seem to be flipping from Republican to Democratic control which is pretty great given the gains Republicans made in the 2016 elections here(tied for control of the state senate for the first time in a whole lot of years for example)
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Endorph posted:white men went 50/50 here. it was white women that went hard for gillispie. if it werent for them northam'd be like +20 You also have to split it young/old. Take out old white women and old white men and Virginia looks like the ocean.
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Ein Sexmonster posted:Well to be precise they have been doing this for decades. Well yeah. Dems have to be thinking about countering this every time they gain any political power.
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axeil posted:You also have to split it young/old. Take out old white women and old white men and Virginia looks like the ocean.
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Northam made a point to address the immigration thing in his speech at least, which is nice.
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I'm so glad this guy won, there was some seriously nasty racist campaigning against him. 
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hopeandjoy posted:I literally drove to Fredericksburg from school in Williamsburg because I was like "maybe my mom and sister's suffering in Cole's awful campaign could mean something" after I forgot to sign up for absentee. Another Stafford/Fredericksburg area ex-pat here, now in NoVA. Gotta start canvassing back home in 2019 and turn the Senate blue and the House of Delegates bluer
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Endorph posted:white men went 50/50 here. it was white women that went hard for gillispie. if it werent for them northam'd be like +20 Speaking as a white woman, white women are the loving worst and continue to vote against their interests because they can't stop being racist for five seconds.
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