Now we need the other handful of states to get their asses handed to them. Looking at you: Ohio, Wisconsin, Utah, etc....
And that was brought to Clarence Thomas.. If there is any justice that would have been open to it, it would have been Thomas.
Handful? Lol. There are a lot of gerrymandered states out there. They all need to have their lines redrawn.
Handful of egregious offenders that have already defied courts and independent redistricting committees. I don't think we'll be able to completely get rid of gerrymandering. Only when it is too obvious.
Sounds like Alabama is getting a court-appointed expert to draw their map for Alabama. Did that happen in Wisconsin?
Unlike Alabama, Wisconsin’s gerrymandering didn’t violate the Voting Rights Act, so I don’t think the WI lawsuits actually said they were unconstitutional. Being a Democrat isn’t a protected class, so it is entirely fair to discriminate against them.
Abortion will be the key driver in Va elections. Hopefully, that will also bury all Youngkin hopes for higher office. University of Mary Washington Poll in Virginia finds Democrats with a narrow lead in the upcoming legislative elections, 40% to 37%. The most important finding: By a 57% to 35% margin, Virginians want abortion to remain legal “all” or “most” cases.
Virginia started early voting. On Tuesday, Oregon State House District 8 is having a recall election. I do not know when the last state legislative recall election was.
Interesting bit of infighting there. The current Representative is a Democrat that has held the position since 2004 and the recall petition was filed by a union that wants to take him out because he did not push through a pro-union bill that would have banned cannibas shops from preventing their workers from unionizing. https://www.opb.org/article/2023/08...aul-holvey-faces-recall-signatures-confirmed/
I am predicting the dems will win the house and keep the Senate in Va, putting a premature end on this clown in the red vest presidential ambitions.
It's probably notable that in Prince William County, Republican candidates for school board are playing down the ideology, keeping mum about their Moms for Liberty support, and downplaying their party affiliation. And to some degree, that's true for Board of County Supervisor candidates as well.
The DC suburbs and ex-burbs are where the Va GOP goes to die. The incoming government shutdown will not help them either.
Yup. Youngkin benefited from genuine angst about schools—combined with cynical exploitation of those concerns, with a generous side of hapless campaigning on McAuliffe’s part—but I think that well has run dry, at least here in NoVA. They have overplayed their hand.
Always fun to guess what new "crisis" brought about by liberals will be affecting schools/children just before the next general election. Will it involve race, gays, drag queens, transpeople, Muslims, Jews ... so many options!
In my local town, the crisis isn't in regards to schools. The crisis is... road diets and a potential apartment complex on the site of a nursing home that closed years ago. I'm not joking. And the hilarious thing is, the neighbors opposing this are nowhere near the affected area. At all. Last election, the thing the conservatives campaigned on was the location of a WW2 memorial. Like, seriously? And the conservatives lost on that front. There's a house in my neighborhood that is incredibly vocal about their conservatism and I've used that as a basis to vote against whatever they support. They have so many signs up it's insane. My favorite was either the sign saying, "If it can happen to Trump, it can happen to you" or the county executive sign saying, "Vote for keeping our money in the US, not in Switzerland." I actually looked up the candidate because it was so deep into conservative lore.
More for this..... A big Dem Win in Va will be a massive boost while burying Youngkin ambitions. “The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is pumping another $1 million into Virginia’s high-stakes legislative elections this fall, doubling its commitment for the year,” Axios reports. “For Democrats, abortion is on the ballot in Virginia’s off-year election, when all 140 seats are up in the state House and Senate.”
However much money was spent on the recall election was wasted. Through 62 percent counted, 90.13 percent voted not to recall. Paul Holvey joined then-Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as politicians who did better in their recall elections than regular elections. Tennessee votes on Thursdays, and Memphis elects a mayor tomorrow. That is the last Tennessee election this year. The remaining elections not on Tuesdays are in Louisiana, which votes on Saturday October 14 and November 18.
Keep it up Dems! Let's bury this clown in the red vest ambitions. “Democratic donors are going big on stopping Gov. Glenn Youngkin from taking control of the Virginia legislature,” Politico reports. “The States Project is investing more than $4.5 million in next month’s Virginia legislative races, building on its successful investment to flip several statehouses in 2022.”
Youngkins new-school lack of ethics is interesting. He's called for a Tik Tok ban but takes major contributions from a large investor in Tik Tok. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...or-despite-app-ban-china-warnings/ar-AA1hJrAW
“Abortion has surged as a key issue for women and Democrats for the Nov. 7 legislative elections in Virginia, the last state in the South to hold out against restrictions on the procedure in the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade,” according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. “Virginia’s off-year contests are the country’s only major races this year and could signal the national political mood heading into the 2024 presidential election.”
This is why Jen Kiggans is voting the way she’s voting for the Speakership. She’s in a swing district, and can’t afford adding to her headwinds.
This is head scratching....The dude has a 68% unfavorable opinion but still leading and will likely win.... A new Democratic Governor’s Association poll in Mississippi finds Gov. Tate Reeves (R) leading challenger Brandon Presley (D) 46% to 45%, with nearly 10% still undecided 15 days from the election. The poll also shows that among those undecided voters, 68% have an unfavorable opinion of Reeves, while just 2% view him favorably.