Stacy Abrams stock is sky high in Democratic (and national) politics. John Fetterman is not far behind though. He is smart, forceful and funny and has been rational voice and reassuring presence through the last few weeks of this clown show. He is going places. Leslie jones comments about him are funny as heck...lol This guy is tough looking and I want him to be my security pic.twitter.com/UfNymkqY7d— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) November 26, 2020
Rick Scott presents the GOP platform: This is why Dems need to go on offense now on democracy. Republicans, as always, will use their phony voter fraud allegations to demand more voter suppression. Rick Scott is garbage and a liar. Don’t reward this vile attack on the republic. https://t.co/JZL3TpBiqQ— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 26, 2020 “Too many brown people voting!”
Actually, Mr. Scott, 30+ court cases have shown just the opposite of what you state, that there isn't a shred of evidence suggesting that voter fraud exists, even in the smallest form. But carry on, it's Florida, you'll fit in just fine.
Yeah holding those seats are crucial for Democrats. The redistricting process in 2021 will be fascinating, as there's a good chance Republicans retake the House in 2022.
Here's the latest: NEW: The Herkimer County BOE has apparently revised its final, unofficial count. @claudiatenney (R) nets 35 votes, @RepBrindisi (D) 10. In the latest twist and turn in this race, Tenney once again leads by 12 votes in #NY22— Josh Rosenblatt (@JRosenblattTV) November 30, 2020 This was Miller-Meeks's fourth run for #IA02 after three unsuccessful bids. Just to put her apparent *six vote* victory in perspective: - 19,189 people left the race blank- 703 people voted for a write-in - 175 people accidentally(?) voted for both(per official canvass)— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 1, 2020
That sucks. Good that Cheryl Bustos resigned as the DCCC chairperson. They really blew it massively this term.
The first female senator from North Carolina was Bob Dole's wife Elizabeth, who was elected in 2002 and lost in 2008. How much power do incumbents have to draw their districts? The map is made as one thing, not districts made independently of each other. New York does have strange shapes. I have a friend in the same town as me in a different state assembly district. I live in a heavily white town, and my friend is a Republican who is in a district with heavily minority towns. One time in elementary school somebody called a bomb threat, and everybody had to walk to a nearby school. By the current map, that school is in a different state assembly district. I'm not going to try to find the map from then. That's the district that was represented by Elijah Cummings. I know people in both districts. I know people who moved from New Jersey 11, which had the biggest change in any district from 2016 to 2018, to Iowa 2, which is historically close. My uncle and aunt are Republicans in New York 22, and they have had their representative change so often. After redistricting, an incumbent was re-elected in 2012, but he wasn't their incumbent in 2010. After having him for two terms, he retired, and Claudia Tenney won in 2016 to hold it for Republicans. In 2018, Anthony Brindisi beat Tenney, and this is a rematch. Kim, Steele, Fischbach, Malliotakis, Mace, and Tenney if she wins beat men. Salazar, Hinson, Herrell, and Bice beat women. Miller-Meeks if she wins will be the only Republican to gain an open seat, as Democrat Dave Loebsack retired. Regardless of whether Miller-Meeks or Hart wins, all four districts in Iowa elected new members in 2018 or 2020.
I moved to NYC more or less as the last redistricting of Assembly and State Senate happened, and at that time incumbents had a lot of power in redistricting. I believe that an amendment in 2014 curtailed this slightly, but I guess time will tell. At the State level, NY's population is more or less static, but broken out by county it's really more that rural counties are depopulating at a modest rate while Urban and suburban grew slowly. Most upstate state senate districts are underpopulated compared to downstate. Similarly a Republican US House district upstate should get the axe when the state loses a district.
I’m a Democrat and I approve this message: Here's Lin Wood telling Georgia Republicans NOT to vote for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue next month."They have not earned your vote. Don't you give it to them. Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election for god's sake! Fix it! You gotta fix it!" pic.twitter.com/Uvj1QIpqFL— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 2, 2020
NEW: Rep Sean Patrick Maloney elected chair of the @DCCC for the 2022 cycleHe will be charged with protecting a razor-thin Democratic majority after redistricting and in Biden's first midterm— Ally Mutnick (@allymutnick) December 3, 2020
I know you mean elected, but as stated, I would say deVos and Kirstjen Nielsen are two women we don't need in government.
So this ************************ went to the Senate to get inside information so her can be a day trader. What a POS. Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) bought and sold stock in a company that sold “pain management alternatives to opioids” while a Senate committee he was a member of held meetings on how to manage the opioid crisis in 2016, WXIA reports. Perdue made “substantial profits” from the trades.
Corruption in politics? This probably goes on more than people realize. Bob Menendez (D) was part of a pay-for-play scheme, but he seems to keep getting elected.