Yet another over performance by Democrats - this was a Trump +14 district that voted D+24 yesterday.
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I am 99% sure it is a CCP effort. Been tracking it for like a year now. Hard to track because it’s contagious.
For the love of God always call out doomers for being suspect. They’re not here because they’re feeling impending doom. They’re here to make you feel impending doom.
Russia/Israel/CCP. Almost all of the doomers are voting doesn’t work, why aren’t you starting a civil war, the dems are just gonna gaza harder than the turnip, etc.
Golly, seems like lots of people don’t like you
There are a lot of really miserable, insufferable kids on Lemmy right now seething about this because it flies in the face of the “voting is useless, everything will be rigged” narrative that they push to validate not wanting to be involved.
They don’t want to be involved in the actual democratic process, but they reeeeally don’t want to shut the fuck up about their irrelevant opinions.
Yes, lemmy.ml exists.
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I mean, Im on board with the message overall but I very much think people not getting to the polls is an issue. 90 million chose to sit out last general election. That is a HUGE problem IMO.
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It’s far more clear this time around who is doing what to disrupt the status-quo
Voters seem, with good reason, to hate whichever party is currently in power is another easy way to read this.
Yeah, this unfortunately. I’m a lot more pragmatic and actually try to vote
There are a lot of really miserable, insufferable kids on Lemmy right now seething about this
I will believe you if you can provide just 2 examples.
But is it an overperform? Looking back to 2011, the strongest performance by a GOP for this specific seat is 38%, and it was this election, the last GOP candidate had 18% before this…
For whatever reason, local and presidential elections can very much swing differently, and in this example it clearly looks like you can’t read much of anything into the results since it has been different from presidential outcomes already…
When’s the last time a district swung by nearly 40 points? That’s nuts. Good, but wild.
It’s not really a swing when it’s a completely different office, especially with trump. There are many places were a local Democrat and Trump won in the same ballot, including this one.
Also, the incumbent won, it’s literally not a flip.
I didn’t call it a flip, but thanks for the reminder.
You called it a swing, and it isn’t that either since they literally elected the same person they elected last time.
For context, here’s how the elections have gone down since 2011 for that seat:
Year Democrat Republican Independent 2011 86.1 13.9 2015 46 18.8 25.6 2019 100 2023 100 2026 62 38
Not exactly a huge pro-democrat swing. This is actually the strongest contested result the republicans have had for this seat…
Martinez campaigned on a platform focused on affordable insurance, stronger local infrastructure, and expanded access to health care, including mental health and substance-abuse services. She also focused on government transparency, support for public education, and advocacy for working families.
It’s almost like if you focus on the stuff that’s most important to the vast majority of voters, you’ll get more votes. Hmm…
What’s hilarious is that all feels like bottom of the barrel stuff, like we should just be doing that stuff by default.
That’s why America is stuck in the mud, it goes forward in progress and back to revisionism. It gives with one hand and takes back with the other. This is why a two party system is fraught with paradox. More lines of ascension means more dialogue and progress moves more steadily forward instead of being jerked back and forth. One party is not the solution any but those in power should wish for. There is a reason no one is ruled by a monarchy anymore.
Yeah Republicans are still trying to pull back bullshit from the New Deal.
Bro republicans are trying to pull back shit from the civil war
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“Comfortably”? A 10% margin is considered a landslide. Martinez won by 24 points.
Blatant political bias by Newsweek.
I’ve been burned too many times for real predictions, but I hope we’re about to need all new words for “blowout” soon.
Polling currently makes Democrats slight favourites, assuming election tampering efforts are not too successful.
Dug a bit, and apparently this seat has literally never been held by a Republican; this is quite the misleading headline.
Her name is “Chasity”, by the way, not “Chastity”.
I generally ignore anything from News Week, Raw Story, or the Daily Beast. They all do stuff like this. They twist facts to get a story where there is none.
Who the fuck calls themself Chasity?
Nobody. Usually it’s the parents who decide their child’s name.
Not me, I got to pick my own name as a child. Admittedly, “Small-Weiner Stegosaurus” might have been a regrettable choice.
Chasity does.
Be aware: Newsweek spent the lead-up to the 2024 election telling us that we had nothing to worry about and that Harris was going to win.
This has been a consistent placating of the non-MAGAts.
Nothing is more poison to the MAGA brand than Trump being in office. It’s why he lost the election in 2020. We saw the burning dumpster fire all around us and went NO THANKS
A third of us said no thanks, another third was all “yes, lemme lick more boot!”, and the last third couldn’t be bothered to pay attention.
Fuck every single protest non voter. This shit is as much on their shoulders as the maga faithful, the lazy pieces of shit.
Mostly I see people who were desperate to get rid of Trump in 2020 showing their short memories by going back to non-voting. I don’t think the actual number of protest-non voters was very high.
Don’t blame them at all though. The DNC is squarely to blame. They made a series of terrible decisions and ended up with a bad candidate running a bad campaign and thought they could still win solely on how shitty their opponent was.
Why miss the opportunity to say “bigly,” and rub in that bastard’s fascist face?
Why miss the opportunity to say “bigly,”
Because the goal isn’t to sound stupid?
While I don’t want to dampen the enthusiasm to much, this State House district has voted Democratic since 2011. So not that much of a surprise, even though good.
This is the kind of result that the pedofile in chief will NOT consider a “honest” one. Just in case you were wondering.
What was her platform?
Martinez campaigned on a platform focused on affordable insurance, stronger local infrastructure, and expanded access to health care, including mental health and substance-abuse services. She also focused on government transparency, support for public education, and advocacy for working families. A longtime community advocate, Martinez pointed to her record of grassroots engagement, including volunteering with local food pantries and assisting families in need, as central to her approach in representing District 60.
Thank you. I need a better ad/pop-up blocker on mobile. Newsweek is awful.
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Ah, so maybe people actually prefer that to the Republican platform of “we’ll take all your money and give it to billionaires, deny you healthcare and education, kidnap your friends and family and, if you complain, shoot you in the street.”
Radical! Who aside from ordinary people would benefit from such plans?!?!
Uh, it’s not a “big Donald Trump district” any longer.
Main stream media sucks so bad.
