How Democrats Suffered Crushing Down-Ballot Losses Across America.

New York Times ^ | November 28, 2020 | Trip Gabriel

[karpov]

WEXFORD, Pa. — Just a few seats shy of a majority in the State House of Representatives, Democrats in Pennsylvania this year zeroed in on Republican-held suburban districts, where disdain for President Trump ran hot.

One of their prime targets was in the North Hills suburbs outside Pittsburgh, which are home to big brick houses, excellent public schools and “the fastest-trending Democratic district in the state,” according to Emily Skopov, the Democratic nominee for an open seat there, who gamely knocked on the doors of Republican voters in the days before Nov. 3.

She was half right. Joseph R. Biden Jr. carried Pennsylvania’s House District 28, after Mr. Trump had won it by nine percentage points in 2016.

But Ms. Skopov, the founder of a nonprofit group who positioned herself as a moderate, was defeated.

Across the country, suburban voters’ disgust with Mr. Trump — the key to Mr. Biden’s election — did not translate into a wide rebuke of other Republicans, as Democrats had expected after the party made significant gains in suburban areas in the 2018 midterm elections. From the top of the party down to the state level, Democratic officials are awakening to the reality that voters may have delivered a one-time verdict on Mr. Trump that does not equal ongoing support for center-left policies.

“There’s a significant difference between a referendum on a clown show, which is what we had at the top of the ticket, and embracing the values of the Democratic ticket,” said Nichole Remmert, Ms. Skopov’s campaign manager. “People bought into Joe Biden to stop the insanity in the White House. They did not suddenly become Democrats.”

[karpov]

Subtitle: "In statehouse races, suburban voters’ disgust with President Trump failed to translate into a rebuke of other Republicans, ensuring the party’s grip on partisan mapmaking."

[babble-on]

It’s the message no one seems to be getting about the election. What won was Moderatism.

[bray]

This of course is not more proof of voter fraud at the top of the ballot. Love to see all those crossover ballots who wanted a Repub congressman and a braindead President.

[dpetty121263]

The Left has no worries, next time they will just create more votes! Problem solved.

[marktwain]

Looks like more evidence of cheating to me.

Take votes from Trump and move them to Biden.

This is what it looks like.

[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

Busy manufacturing Biden ballot, not enough time to take care of all down ballots.

[Fai Mao]

State legislatures need to put a stop to the steal before the next election. It is literally the only hope. This includes states that were not swing states this time.

[Thunder90]

Republicans lost Senate races and the Presidency due to targeted Fraud. John James and Martha McSally lost due to this, as well as the reason runoffs are taking place in GA (which we will likely lose due to fraud in the runoffs).

[SauronOfMordor]

There can be no “moderate” Democrat legislators. They will vote as Party leadership tells them, or they lose all committee positions and reelection funding.

[Gen.Blather]

“Busy manufacturing Biden ballot, not enough time to take care of all down ballots.”

I suspect that many local ballots had different names on them for various lower level offices. If so, this means that the issue of preprinting ballots would be much more difficult. Anybody know if this is true?

If this is so, the various fake ballots would be easy to spot.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I don’t think so. There is nothing moderate about Trump, and Trump won biggly.

I don’t count on fish-wrap like the New York Times, to tell me so, though.

[babble-on]

I’m checking the results to see if you’re right. No, you’re not right.

[HamiltonJay]

Because there was no disgust with Trump.. it was Fraud.. period

[small farm girl]

Voting by district problems...exactly what I was thinking.

[CaptainK]

Because Joe Biden and Ms Harris are such moderates they are practically RINOs.

[deport]

moderate moderated moderates ...

[Liz]

Subtitle: "In statehouse races, suburban voters’ happily elected Republicans, ensuring the Repub’s grip on partisan mapmaking."

Heh....another of Obama's "bright ideas" that flopped bigtime.

In Massive Blow To Obama and Holder, Republicans Handily Won Virtually Almost Every House Race
A Huge Loss for Obama's dream: a permanent Dem majority
Thegatewaypundit.com ^ | November 20 2020 | Mike LaChance / FR Posted by SmokingJoe

.....one aspect of the 2020 race is being overlooked even though it’s huge. Not only did Republicans make considerable gains in the House, that no one expected, they won most of the races that will entail redistricting. This is like a double loss for Democrats Every 10 years, after the census, congressional and state legislature districts are redrawn to account for population changes. This gives whoever is drawing the maps the power to maximize the number of districts that favor their party — a tactic known as gerrymandering. And as we wrote last month, the 2020 election represented the last chance for voters to weigh in on who would draw those maps.

Both parties went into the election with a chance to draw more congressional districts than the other, but the end result was just about the best-case scenario for end result was just about the best-case scenario for Republicans. As the map below shows, Republicans are set to control the redistricting of 188 congressional seats — or 43 percent of the entire House of Representatives. By contrast, Democrats will control the redistricting of, at most, 73 seats, or 17 percent.

How did Republicans pull that off? By winning almost every 2020 election in which control of redistricting was at stake… (Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...

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latimes.com

CIRCA 2019 Obama and Holder take on partisan gerrymandering with redistricting

SOURCE https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-27/obama-partisan-gerrymandering-redistricting-u-initiative

Aug 27, 2019 — In one of his first public political actions since he left the White House, Obama unveiled Redistricting U on Twitter as an in-person training arm ...All On The Line, launched earlier this year, is a combination of Obama's "Organizing For Action" and former Attorney General Eric Holder's "National Redistricting Action Fund."

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cnn.com

CIRCA 2019 Ex-President Barack Obama announced a new initiative that will help volunteers influence redistricting efforts in states across the country. "Redistricting U," an extension of his "All On The Line" campaign, will send trainers to provide free training and tools to volunteers about their state redistricting process, gather feedback on ways to improve their communities and teach them how to be leaders in the fair map movement, according to the initiative's website.

All On The Line, launched earlier this year, is a combination of "Obama's Organizing For Action" and former Attorney General "Eric Holder's National Redistricting Action Fund."

Obama said he has always believed "training is at the heart of organizing." "It's why I made it a priority in my 2008 campaign and throughout our larger movement for change in the years since," Obama said in a statement on the group's website.

He added, "The movement for fair maps will determine the course of progress on every issue we care about for the next decade. And we can't wait to begin organizing when the redistricting process starts in 2021. We need to build this movement from the ground up -- right now."

This is the latest effort by Obama to push for voting reform and fight against gerrymandering. The Obamas have long pushed for increased voter participation and fought against partisan gerrymandering.

Redistricting map.

[trebb]

All tripe except to make a bigger case for fraud being committed.

[Bon of Babble]

I see it this way: The Democrats were so focused on stealing the election for Biden that they didn’t have the time/energy/manpower left to commit voter fraud for down ticket Democrats.

[Bon of Babble]

There are many reports of massive ballot dumps in the middle of the night with only the vote for Biden ticked off, nothing down ballot.