Though the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey took center stage yesterday, there were plenty of other elections and ballot measures across the country that might’ve slipped under your radar.
Tucson
Tuscony. Italy?
Over reaction day!
Please remove all those signs from my neighborhood.
One wish from these election results: establishment Democrats would do well to retire Clinton-era retreads. Where are the new candidates who represent a generational progression? To install the electorate with enthusiasm, a raft of rising stars really could help with that.
Those Tuscans and Etruscans have always been forward-thinking types.
Just 10 short months ago, Republicans mounted an attempted coup to overturn the results of a free and fair election. That anybody could actually consider turning over the reins of government to Republicans is beyond mind-boggling. Republicans should be consigned to the wilderness for approximately forever. American voters have a short memory and an even shorter attention span. I really do hate it here.
New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney (D) is in serious trouble in his race against Republican Ed Durr
Nominative determinism strikes again!
Elections are not policy events. They are emotional events. The Democrats seem never to have learned that or taken it to heart. Policy without powerful emotion loses election. Powerful emotion without policy wins by and for the worst of us.
Yep, my sentiments exactly. Although, one would think the Dems in congress and the White House would have had their shit together enough to pull us out of the atrocities of 10 months ago and the preceding four years. Not the case. They just lolligag along thinking “everything will be okay.” Biden couldn’t say often enough how optimistic he is, while his approval tanks. Man, so disappointing!
No shit. Things look pretty damned good when you step back and look.
Slates of school board candidates in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Connecticut who ran on “critical race theory” panic and COVID-19 restrictions lost.
That’s cuz they’re dumb as rocks.
Too soon to tell.
VA was lost for different reasons. Guns, a rerun candidate that was fantastically uninspiring and not very popular his first time around, the strange off-off-year election crap that VA does where it’s only State stuff at stake, etc.
Plenty of newsprint will be spilled about how this must mean the death of the Democratic party Nationwide, and all of it will be wrong.
What about New Jersey though? That’s a wild one, no?
I’ve never understood why New Jersey’s considered to be solidly in the Blue column. To my eyes, it’s got a threateningly large percentage of Staten Island type voters, always did, and I think it always has the potential to be quite dicey.
The Sweeney (potential) loss seems like an earthquake. His opponent spent less than $200.
South Jersey.
Efficient use of resources.
Gotta be it