Posted on 02/07/2018 7:33:51 AM PST by Pinkbell
(Reuters) - Democrats won a Missouri special election on Tuesday for a state house seat in a district that President Donald Trump won in a landslide victory during the presidential election.
The win in Missouri was the latest for the Democrats who have ridden an anti-Trump wave to several special election victories in areas around the country, including in races in Wisconsin and Alabama.
However, Republicans easily won three other state house seats in Missouri on Tuesday and still have a super majority, the ability to override a governor’s veto - in the chamber.
Democratic Mike Revis defeated Republican David Linton by 3 points for the District 97 state representative seat in the Missouri House, a district Trump won by 28 points, according to the Missouri Secretary of State website and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
Since Trump’s inauguration, Democrats have flipped 35 contested seats, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
However, the good news is that we won the other 3 seats easily, but this makes a better headline for Reuters of course.
People can not get complacent, though. Obama lost over 1,000 seats. Our people have to turn out for every election.
The media works with the Dems to make sure AS FEW PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE know of these special elections. The Dems then use their social media to activate their base.
Results: 10% of Republicans vote, 20% of Dems vote - Dems win...but it doesn’t mean crap regarding the mood of the voters.
So this is not an issue in major elections, where the media can’t hide it, but it is being done in these special elections.
Good points....and where in Hades was the RNC?
Already covered and recovered and recovered in other threads.
How many out of town buses on the traffic cams?
Not a big deal to my mind, but here’s how to prevent it: Conservatives find DINOs to run in ‘Rat primaries.
We have a special election coming up here in Western PA for a seat that was held by an (R) for 14 years. The Dems are going after it aggressively, running a good-looking young former Marine.
From the commercials he is running, it is virtually impossible to tell that he is a Democrat.
I think their strategy in these districts that went heavily for Trump is to tack to the right, and try to confuse voters.
Attention all businesses planning on investing and expanding. The voters in this district are not interested, do not waste your investment there
I live in this county (Jefferson County, MO). I consider myself pretty attentive to politics and I read the local paper every week. However, I had NO IDEA this election was taking place. By a coincidence I was even at the school where elections are normally held and saw no unusual polling activity, which tells me the polling place was different for this special election.
I suspect the local RNC figured this county went 65% for Trump so why spend the money on promoting it. Part of me thinks maybe this is a good thing to happen as it might wake up the RNC to the risk of complacency in the 2018 elections, but that assumes a lot.
I get no sense that the county is turning blue but the few Democrats left are zealots against Trump, so I’m not surprised they somehow got more people to this low key election.
I’m from St. Louis. This is a heavily union area. The Missouri Legislature just passed Right To Work. Case closed..... don’t let the media read more into it than is there.
This was union payback.... nothing more.
Many, many thanks for the realtime report.
“However, Republicans won three . . . “
Oops, they should have buried this deeper in the story. You mean all the narrative about the dim winning DOESN'T MATTER??
Turnout was 15%. Many people didn’t even know there was an election.
To compare to 2016 is asinine. There were more than 13000 votes in this district in 2016. The GOP incumbent didn’t have a democrat challenger. His sole opponent in the race, a Libertarian got more votes in a losing effort than were cast in the whole district.
Also, this isn’t a “deep red”district. Claire McCaskle won this district by 12 points in 2012. The prior GOP incumbent barely eeked out a 51-48 win that year.
HD144 is much more traditionally Democrat and the GOP kept that one.
Roosters and the AssPress and Twitter trash are harping on something that doesn’t correlate at all.
We have upcoming specials in MN on February 12 and FL on Feb 13 and the big Congressional Race in PA18 on March 13.
Can we get a ping list or something and mobilize Freepers for these?
The rats and media have been keeping these super quiet until they happen, push their base out through DU and Share Blue and then run to the media after the fact when there was only 15% turnout.
https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_special_elections,_2018#February_6.2C_2018
Yup; thousands of Chrysler plant workers turned out to support the guy.
Still turning out hundreds of Chrysler sedans, eh ?
Here’s another thread on the MO election with some 66 comments
if anyone cares to scan thru them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3629979/posts
Democrats snag Republican Missouri House seat, lose 2 other contests in special election
Hacking Democracy - The Hack
If things were reversed the headline would read: "Democrats win 3 of 4 seats in Missouri special election".
True that.
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