Overall a Horrible Election Day. What Happened?

Self | Nov 5, 2025 | Fwdude

[fwdude]

We apparently are not on a roll with some kind of conservative momentum. Leftist Democrats of the worst kind made inroads into political power yesterday.

— NYC elects a radical Muslim. — Virginia threw out all reason and elected radical leftists to the Governorship and Attorney General, who had made violent threats. — Democrats flipped two red seats in MS breaking the Republican supermajority. — in my neck of the woods, Texas senate district 9 is going to a run-off after a DEM bested two Republicans for a plurality of votes.

This was surprising as the polling place I revisited was packed to the gills in an off-off-year election in a conservative area. Overall, there were no spectacular Republican victories to make inroads into Democrat comtrol. I don’t think this bodes ill for the 2026 mid-terms.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Texas state Senate district 9 race came down to casino gambling. The losing Republican (John Huffman) was funded by billionaire Miriam Adelson, widow of the late prominent Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, who owned the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Venetian hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip.

On the other side, winner Leigh Wambsganss is a Christian nationalist who was funded by billionaire Tim Dunn, who opposes casino gambling on moral grounds.

It's very likely that this seat will be held by the Republican, but the reason that Huffman didn't step down is rival Republican billionaires funding each candidate on opposite sides of the legalized gambling issue, and neither was willing to step aside.

-PJ

[HossB86]

Pretty simple as to what happened in Virginia:

Three or four big counties — north and east — and all liberal. They controlled the vote by numbers, so the rest of us have to pay the price.

Virginia and other states need some sort of electoral college system for state elections. It’s gotten WAY out of control. Virginia is pretty much done.

Hoss

[cableguymn]

Democrats always do well and off your elections. Republicans just don’t show up.

[aquila48]

The thing that's puzzling to me is he claims to be a Muslim, yet he says he's all for gays and trans rights and his wife dresses very conventionally (shows a lot of skin). All rather un-muslim behavior. So, what gives?

[ncalburt]

That is bad news .
It was. white county a few years ago .

[ncalburt]

lol

[ohioman]

GFY Captain Doom! This is a war and you want to concede and admit defeat when the fight is just now becoming bloody.

[Tallguy]

Northern Virginia was probably the only area where you could point to the government shutdown as a real factor.

[cableguymn]

Generally, it takes a while to turn a ship around and many are still feeling the fallout of the Biden economy. I know a guy who had to sell his house to pay off all the debt he incurred over the Biden economy trying to save his business. Business still hasn’t really turned around for him but now he’s not spending $10,000 a month in payments however if he doesn’t quit soon or things turn around, he’ll just run those bills up again and not have another asset to sell

[cgbg]

Traditionally our issue with polls is that they are slanted to help Democrats.

See the New Jersey problem yet?

[Alberta's Child]

My issue with GOP polls is that they are slanted to make races closer than they appear — to raise money for futile campaigns.

See why I ignore them?

[cgbg]

I have followed politics for decades.

It can happen—but it is very rare for a poll to heavily overstate Republican support.

[pierrem15]

Very good point. If the Dems had chosen anyone except the worst performing Dem candidate from 2020 after dumping His Senility, Trump would probably be in jail right now.

[Alberta's Child]

Here’s where you’re wrong: Almost all of these races were in places where Trump’s involvement would have made things even worse for the GOP candidates.

Trump didn’t ignore these races out of spite. It was out of necessity. That’s why these GOP candidates never wanted him to be actively supporting him.

[Alberta's Child]

You have to see who is doing the polling. Heck … in off-year elections even the MSM may overstate GOP numbers just to give people a reason to watch or read the news.

[cgbg]

It is an interesting theory—but you need a lot of historical data to substantiate that claim.

[TornadoAlley3]

No ground game. Candidates matter. $ matters. Republicans are so bad they will not win without Trump on the ballot. Nuke the filibuster or Republicans will lose everything.

[CFW]

Yep. For instance, Democrats expand majority in Virginia House of Delegates, flipping 13 GOP seats

Republicans lose supermajority in Mississippi Senate after Democratic gains

Democrats secure supermajority in New Jersey Assembly with 5 pickups from GOP

[dfwgator]

We can’t get good candidates, because frankly, good people don’t want to get involved in politics, especially since they already have a good comfortable life in the private sector. Why sacrifice that, and have to put up with all the crap a conservative candidate has to face these days?

[Alberta's Child]

For me, the big tell is that you posted your concern about how the GOP allegedly underperformed compared to the polls … while I have to accept this at face value because I have no idea what a single poll even said as I’ve been ignoring them for years.