Posted on 09/15/2017 1:22:02 PM PDT by SMGFan
On Tuesday night, Democrats flipped two Republican-held state legislative seats -- one in Oklahoma, one in New Hampshire -- that Donald Trump carried in the 2016 election. That makes six turnovers from Republican to Democrat in contested state House and Senate races so far in 2017 -- and 26 out of 35 races (at the state legislative and congressional level) in which the Democratic nominee has overperformed Hillary Clinton's showing last November. (Worth noting: Republicans have yet to flip a Democratic-controlled seat so far this year.)
Republicans will, rightly, note that in each of the contested special elections for US Congress, Democrats may have improved on Clinton's performance but they weren't able to actually win. Close doesn't count in politics. Which is true! As is the fact that Republicans picked up a massive amount of state legislative seats in the Obama era -- well over 900 -- and were bound to give some of them back eventually. And that each race, of course, is unique -- and not necessarily indicative of any broader national trend.
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State houses - not U.S., but still an important harbinger.
My pants are wet.
Gerrymandering by judicial fiat is my guess as to what happened.
The McConnell Legacy is building momentum.
soon CNN will start including board of education results in their tally...
Can’t wait until Trump signs DACA and officialises permanent Democrat control at all levels.
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Ever see articles like this one when the Republicans were winning hundreds of state races? Me either.
The MSM, and especially cnn, is just a bunch of propagandists.
JoMa
State seats, meaning they are irrelevant. Republicans control more state legislatures now than they ever have.
Of course CNN is going to distort this into pushing their narrative.
Depends on if it changed the majority in the state. Otherwise merely a popularity vote.
I’m pretty sure they have LOST FOUR Congressional seats since the election of Donald Trump.
Dems lost over 1000 seats to Republicans in the 2016 elections. Winning 6 seats in state elections...yawn.
Republicans refuse to legislate. One can only conclude that their paymasters use them to defeat issues US citizens want.
How many congressional seats did we win in the same time period?
Or not. Statehouse races incredibly idiosyncratic.
I think my voter registration analysis are a much bigger harbinger of massive D losses.
Trump my have scared the GOP with his little meeting...Ryan yesterday was changing his tune...
I hear they also picked up 3 dog pound directors...
One fact I'd like to offer is that the Oklahoma seat mentioned is in Norman, home of OU.
Not the sole sanctuary, but a stronghold of the left leaning population of the state. And it's OK for me to say that, btw.
Wow!
This amounts to maybe at the very most, a 0.2% increase across the nation for Dems in State Legislatures.
The NH GOP seat was a Democrat seat through 2012 and he won by about 200 votes (1,200 to 1,000). Trump won the district by 17 points because he has wide appeal in this area (working class) and the guy who won is very well known, the organizer of Bike Week in Laconia.
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