discussion OHDems win abortion+weed; VADems win Assembly; PADems win state Supreme Court

[Kitty Kat]

68% of Texans voting to make it illegal for a wealth tax to be imposed

[Kitty Kat]

I'm also hearing that local initiatives to support the use of RCV in Michigan, Minnesota, and California, have all passed. Now it's up to the State legislature to allow it, I think.

[JBJT2786]

2 hours ago, Bears01 said:

Not your state having an all out Blue Wave @Communion

 

We tired of the GOP here..

No surprise. 

[Bears01]

25 minutes ago, Communion said:

Muslim Americans as % of population:
Illinois: 3.7%
New York: 3.6%
New Jersey: 3.5%
Maryland: 3.1%
Michigan: 2.4%

 

Virginia’s 7th with 2% of its population being Muslim. And a significant portion of that Muslim population is scattered across Northern Virginia and then Emporia.

 

There's largely no exact 1:1 equivalent to Dearborn (and to a lesser degree Hamtramck) where the concentration of Muslims or Arab American is a significant enough portion of the population in terms of density (vs being scattered across cities in places like Virginia) or in a high concentration but outnumbered by what is a huge greater population (Philadelphia, New York City).

 

Even communities in New Jersey are either in legislative districts deep blue (D+40) or gerrymandered in a way that stops them for having too much power in a single district. See: The dissonance of someone like Rep. Gottheimer (NJ-5) having enough Muslims in his district that he literally has dozens of mosques in his district and as their congressional rep has had to participate in Muslim cultural events, while then saying American Muslims have the blood of Israelis on their hands because he has suburbs to pad his support with.

 

The impact even within Michigan would be limited; Dems demonizing of Rashida is odd when she's going to easily win her district. Shri Thanedar is probably the main person that will be impacted with his short-lived tenure after being exposed as a grifter and taking some weirdly anti-Palestine stance. It will likely impact Whitmer but her margins across the state will have been large enough to weather such. The main impact will have always been what it will do in a year from now to Biden's razor-thin win in Michigan.

 

And nothing else has ever been claimed, so to other users - not you - try to cope as though anything about tonight suggests positives for Biden seems odd when exit polls show voters, even those who voted for Democrats or progressive policy, do not like him nor have faith in him.

A true, fair and good analysis and I stand corrected. 
 

I found it insane though that 2/3rds of OH voters said they don’t want trump running either in exit polls. Truly the election nobody asked for 

[Monster Megamind]

2 hours ago, Communion said:

"The affluent suburbs are the future of the Democratic Party!!!"

 

Affluent suburbs: "YES!!"

 

"So you agree that black men shouldn't be disproportionately locked up for something as harmless selling or possessing marijuana?"

 

Affluent suburbs: "NO!!!"

 

Also why should the onus of this be on suburban places like this who still vote 15%+ for weed, when ' working class' counties like Mahoning, who ideally would be impacted by it's loss more, voted for it 52-48. That's actually more shameful!

[Vermillion]

 

[Tusk]

26 minutes ago, Espresso said:

 

That Santorum quote is not going to go well for the GOP at all. 

[Living To Tell]

[ClashAndBurn]

6 hours ago, Monster Megamind said:

israel eliminating Hamas

literal fantasy- Israel doesn't even want to eliminate Hamas, they want to keep it as a boogeyman so that Palestinians never know peace and can never achieve nationhood. Even if Hamas leadership wasn't operating from abroad in Qatar and Lebanon, among other places, something else more violent would pop up to replace it seeking revenge.

[ClashAndBurn]

Philadelphia elected a stop-and-frisk Democrat to be mayor @Communion

 

 

 

[Monster Megamind]

30 minutes ago, ClashAndBurn said:

Philadelphia elected a stop-and-frisk Democrat to be mayor @Communion

 

 

 

Imagine how tired voters must be of the crime, to vote for a stop and frisk candidate in 2023, even in a high turnout election.

[Price of Fame]

8 hours ago, Bloo said:

I agree.

This is historically false and intellectually lazy. 

you just described that poster's whole post history in the politics threads 

[Raspberries]

Quote

On abortion, Stephens said in a statement that the state legislature has “multiple paths that we will explore to continue to protect innocent life.” This loss, he added, is “not the end of the conversation.”

 

Huffman, via a spokesman, made similar remarks.

“This isn’t the end. It is really just the beginning of a revolving door of ballot campaigns to repeal or replace Issue 1,” he said.

On marijuana, Huffman said lawmakers “may consider” amending the new state law to “clarify the questionable language regarding limits for THC and tax rates as well as other parts of the statute.” Stephens suggested lawmakers would alter how tax revenue from marijuana sales is allocated.

 

 

 

Edited November 8, 2023 by Raspberries

[spree]

2 hours ago, Tusk said:

That Santorum quote is not going to go well for the GOP at all. 

I hope that blows up more.  I saw that live.  What is he insinuating?  That a rigged election is more fair?

[ClashAndBurn]

42 minutes ago, Monster Megamind said:

Imagine how tired voters must be of the crime, to vote for a stop and frisk candidate in 2023, even in a high turnout election.

Maybe cops should do their jobs instead of seeking out random black people and killing them.

[Sannie]

29 minutes ago, Raspberries said:

 

 

My ******* God, these people are just too ******* stupid. How many times do they have to lose before they let it go? They can still think abortion is wrong morally, but leave it out of politics. It is clearly a losing issue.

[Bears01]

“Do what we want you filthy cretins!”

[Kassi]

What's worse is that Republicans are unable to reconcile their HOSTILE, ANTI-FAMILY slate of policy positions (e.g. no healthcare, no housing, low wages, pro-poverty, pro-mass shootings, pro-climate catastrophe, etc) with people not wanting to have kids.

 

They'll be damned before they ever budge on their party platform.

[Kitty Kat]

 

[Bears01]

 

[Monster Megamind]

1 hour ago, Kitty Kat said:

 

For democrats to win Kansas, winning Wichita is absolutely essential... Looks like today is not that day... But hopefully by 2030🤞

[Monster Megamind]

 

 

[If U Seek Amy]

16 minutes ago, Monster Megamind said:

 

 

This one has been so funny to me cause they're so close in numbers but not at all in a pattern I or many expected.  I think many expected Abortion one to be more popular and pass, with weed also passing but a bit less popular. But instead the suburbs were a bit more intolerant of weed than abortion and many rural areas picked up on weed but not abortion. Like it seems obvious now because being an Ohioan I know the rural people love getting high in many places. But I figured the Republican rhetoric about the evils of issue 2 would scare most away still

[If U Seek Amy]

Of course with Issue 2 in Ohio already Republicans are looking at ways they can mess with the issue with their supermajority. Thankfully it seems at least some are saying they will not fully repeal it and only want to amend it. But of course the issue notes that the tax dollars are to be intended for social/job programs, the administration/regulation of the industry, and for education about missue of marijuana, and they want to change that they are saying. So basically instead of using the tax dollars for good and the system itself they want to personally profit most likely. I hope if they do change things and piss off Ohioans even more it costs them even moreso next year

[HEAVYONIT]

1 hour ago, Bears01 said:

 

 

He is doomed in 2024. Mark my words. He's winning in some polls now but he has zero media coverage. Once major news networks start airing his rambling and insanity, people are going to remember VERY quickly why they didn't vote for him in 2020.