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Dems win from coast to coast

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Dems win from coast to coast | TheHill

Democrats roared back on Tuesday a year after suffering perhaps the most demoralizing defeat in modern political history, claiming big victories in races up and down the ballot and across the country. The breadth of the Democratic wins surprised even the most optimistic party stalwarts, who fretted over their own chances in key races Tuesday. But as the results rolled in, those Democrats said they had energized their core voters and capitalized on President Trump's unpopularity to reach swing voters.

In Washington, Democrat Manka Dhingra (D) appeared headed for victory in a special election to fill an open state Senate seat. Dhingra's win, in a formerly Republican district, would give Democrats control of all levers of government in the Evergreen State. Democrats won at least 14 seats in Virginia's House of Delegates, with another three likely headed to a recount. They picked up at least two seats in New Jersey's state Senate, with several Senate and Assembly districts yet to count ballots, and a seat in New Hampshire's state House. Georgia Democrats celebrated winning two deep red districts in special state House elections. Two Democrats appear likely to face off in a runoff in a suburban Atlanta state Senate district formerly held by a Republican after finishing first and second in the all-party primary — a result that would break the GOP's supermajority. Even local elections tipped left on Tuesday. In St. Petersburg, Fla., Mayor Rick Kriseman won re-election, after campaigning with former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democratic stalwarts, over former Mayor Rick Baker, an upset in a race in which early polls showed Baker leading.

Senior Democratic strategists said their candidates had found a way to tie Republican candidates to the deeply unpopular president, not through his uncouth statements and behavior but through his unpopular policies. Some Republicans, rattled by Tuesday's losses, said they had more to learn about running for and winning office with an unpopular Trump in the White House.

"I don't know how you get around that this wasn’t a referendum on the administration, I just don’t. Some of the very divisive rhetoric helped prompted and usher in a really high Democratic turnout in Virginia," Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) told The Hill at Gillespie's victory party. "We need to have some looking in the mirror."

Well, it looks like Trump has managed to galvanize those who oppose his policies and politics. Above average turnouts - and Democratic victories across the country from dogcatcher to Governor. Dems have stopped highlighting Trump's personality problems and gone on to run against his unpopular positions. And Repubs are losing the culture war. Two Democrats elected in deep red districts in Georgia? In Virginia, voters ousted the author of the state’s bill to ban transgender people from using bathrooms of their choice, and replaced him with a transgender woman.

The country has also apparently rejected the type of nationalism championed by Trump and Bannon. Bannon maintained that a win by Gillespie in Virginia would prove that “Trumpism without Trump can show the way forward". Gillespie put his trust in firing up the nationalists by running a fear-mongering anti-immigrant campaign, and instead he fired up the formerly Republican suburbs to reject his positions soundly.

Maybe it's time for Republicans to rethink a few things. The pendulum is swinging to the left . Trump is tearing the Republican party in half - even more impossible, he appears to be uniting Democratic voters...against him.
 
Don't worry the resident experts will be here soon to assure us that any of the wins dems got were from already blue areas.
They'd call Kansas a liberal paradise if it meant not having to acknowledge a defeat.
 
Yes we can.....Hook up the steam roller...the pendulum is swinging back.
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Meh....its cyclical event.....a few years repub control, a few years dem control....I really don't get anyone's excitement here.

The people have been used as a ping pong ball by two political parties that have none of your interests at heart unless you are a large corporation or campaign donor.

I keep hearing "We need to stop the republics/democrats ( insert party of choice )...but no one is saying "we need to dump all these idiots" and start electing people that will not only take care of the people, but alter the way politicians are bought and sold.

I just cant feel much when I see us sliding back from a red cliff edge back to a blue cliff edge with no end to repetitive polarization and glib campaign promises that really do nothing.
 
The open seat was created after Jason Chaffetz step down earlier in the year.



Republican John Curtis easily beats Democrat Kathie Allen, even in Salt Lake County

Allen and United Utah Party candidate Jim Bennett concede within an hour of polls closing.



With a lofty lead, a big grin and a pair of American-flag-printed socks, Provo Mayor John Curtis, a moderate Republican, celebrated his win Tuesday night to become Utah’s newest congressman.

“I pledge to serve the underrepresented,” he said during his victory speech. “That means spending more time in rural Utah. It means if you’re not white, Mormon and male, I am still here for you.”

Curtis trounced an astonishingly well-funded Democrat and a surprise third-party newcomer in the special election. He will serve the final year of former Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s term after the congressman unexpectedly stepped down in June and joined Fox News as a contributor.

Even in Salt Lake County, where Democrats are expected to do their best, Curtis had a narrow advantage over Allen, according to unofficial results as of 10 p.m.
 
Maine voters approved a measure allowing them to join 31 other states in expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The referendum represented the first time since the signature health bill of former President Barack Obama took effect that the question of expansion was put before U.S. voters. Maine's Republican governor had vetoed five attempts to expand the program. Get the hell out of the way Republicans the people have spoken
 
How long will this love for Liberalism last when they find out the Dumbos they put in can't (or WON'T) deliver results either?
 
Fraggle Rock said:
Maine voters approved a measure allowing them to join 31 other states in expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The referendum represented the first time since the signature health bill of former President Barack Obama took effect that the question of expansion was put before U.S. voters. Maine's Republican governor had vetoed five attempts to expand the program. Get the hell out of the way Republicans the people have spoken
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Yay! They expanded a bloated program under a boondoggle law!!
 
Voters in the Seattle suburbs will determine whether the Washington state Senate will remain the only Republican-led legislative chamber on the West Coast. If the seat flips to Democrats in a special election, Washington will join Oregon and California with total Democratic rule in both legislative chambers and the governor's office.
 
Roadvirus said:
How long will this love for Liberalism last when they find out the Dumbos they put in can't (or WON'T) deliver results either?
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Mmm...at least as long as the Right gloated when they put the head Dumbo in the Whitehouse, I would expect... ;)

haha...you guys are all a little crazy... :)
 
Fraggle Rock said:
Voters in the Seattle suburbs will determine whether the Washington state Senate will remain the only Republican-led legislative chamber on the West Coast. If the seat flips to Democrats in a special election, Washington will join Oregon and California with total Democratic rule in both legislative chambers and the governor's office.
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In other words, the entire West Coast will be ****ed....not just California and Oregon.
 
2018 will be a far better gauge of where the country is actually at politically. But seriously...being excited about ANY of these candidates and the two major parties? You are all just clamoring for more of the same.
 
Polar Bum said:
Meh....its cyclical event.....a few years repub control, a few years dem control....I really don't get anyone's excitement here.

The people have been used as a ping pong ball by two political parties that have none of your interests at heart unless you are a large corporation or campaign donor.

I keep hearing "We need to stop the republics/democrats ( insert party of choice )...but no one is saying "we need to dump all these idiots" and start electing people that will not only take care of the people, but alter the way politicians are bought and sold.

I just cant feel much when I see us sliding back from a red cliff edge back to a blue cliff edge with no end to repetitive polarization and glib campaign promises that really do nothing.
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Exactly! Both sides are so stupid. They always think that when they win back control that it will last forever. When Trump became the nominee in 2016 the lefties were all popping their champaigne bottles that the Republican party was hopelessly split and dead forever.
 
Polar Bum said:
Meh....its cyclical event.....a few years repub control, a few years dem control....I really don't get anyone's excitement here.

The people have been used as a ping pong ball by two political parties that have none of your interests at heart unless you are a large corporation or campaign donor.

I keep hearing "We need to stop the republics/democrats ( insert party of choice )...but no one is saying "we need to dump all these idiots" and start electing people that will not only take care of the people, but alter the way politicians are bought and sold.

I just cant feel much when I see us sliding back from a red cliff edge back to a blue cliff edge with no end to repetitive polarization and glib campaign promises that really do nothing.
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The problem is that our candidates are chosen for us. We only get to choose between candidates chosen by the "wealth primary".

Nobody who would actually work for the people will ever get on a ballot in the first place. And if they did, unlimited anonymous money would be used to smear them relentlessly.
 
OlNate said:
Mmm...at least as long as the Right gloated when they put the head Dumbo in the Whitehouse, I would expect... ;)

haha...you guys are all a little crazy... :)
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Yeah that gloating still hasn't stopped.
 
chuckiechan said:
Instead of California's "poverty with a view", it will be "the entire west coast's poverty with a view"!
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If we stopped supporting trump voters all over the country we'd be better off. Keep all that money we pay in that we don't get back.

6th largest economy in the world. Remember that.
 
Common Sense 1 said:
The open seat was created after Jason Chaffetz step down earlier in the year.



Republican John Curtis easily beats Democrat Kathie Allen, even in Salt Lake County

Allen and United Utah Party candidate Jim Bennett concede within an hour of polls closing.



With a lofty lead, a big grin and a pair of American-flag-printed socks, Provo Mayor John Curtis, a moderate Republican, celebrated his win Tuesday night to become Utah’s newest congressman.

“I pledge to serve the underrepresented,” he said during his victory speech. “That means spending more time in rural Utah. It means if you’re not white, Mormon and male, I am still here for you.”

Curtis trounced an astonishingly well-funded Democrat and a surprise third-party newcomer in the special election. He will serve the final year of former Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s term after the congressman unexpectedly stepped down in June and joined Fox News as a contributor.

Even in Salt Lake County, where Democrats are expected to do their best, Curtis had a narrow advantage over Allen, according to unofficial results as of 10 p.m.
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When the Republican apologists have to look at a gerrymandered district in bright red conservative Utah of all places in a special election to replace a GOP incumbent for solace, it is a good day indeed.
 
chuckiechan said:
Damn. I didn't know white people were running Mexican kids down in their trucks in Virginia! I wouldn't have voted for Mr. Establishment, either!
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Could've been slews of Massachussetts folks being bussed back out of New Hampshire to Virginia.
 
haymarket said:
When the Republican apologists have to look at a gerrymandered district in bright red conservative Utah of all places in a special election to replace a GOP incumbent for solace, it is a good day indeed.
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But of course any win for other than a democrat is somehow tainted. But never-mind that the "brilliant, spectacular, never happened before, wins in places where dems should of won spell doom for President trump or what ever nonsense you guys are push for the week. The democratic party has never been weaker that it is right now so there is no where to go but up!
The same delusion continues that said president Trump would never be president.
 
What if...? said:
If we stopped supporting trump voters all over the country we'd be better off. Keep all that money we pay in that we don't get back.

6th largest economy in the world. Remember that.
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It's all farming, ranching, and timber, except for Silicon Valley and Amazon in Washington. The average Joe in all of those states is drowning and the only way to save them is to gut medical care by socializing and rationing it.
 
Fraggle Rock said:
Voters in the Seattle suburbs will determine whether the Washington state Senate will remain the only Republican-led legislative chamber on the West Coast. If the seat flips to Democrats in a special election, Washington will join Oregon and California with total Democratic rule in both legislative chambers and the governor's office.
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I seriously wonder how many low wage, low skill immigrants of all stripes we can support and still have a middle class. Without a doubt the biggest threat from the democrat party is demographic change through immigration and amnesty combined with open borders.
 
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