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Democrats Are on a Winning Streak That Could Transform Our Politics
The Nation ^ | 9/22/2023 | By John Nichols

Posted on 09/22/2023 3:48:56 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

In the past few days, Democrats have secured majority control of the Pennsylvania House and moved within one seat of ending Republican control of the New Hampshire House. Those wins are not aberrations. They are the latest measures of a nationwide blue wave that has seen Democrats outperform expectations in 24 of 30 special elections for open state legislative seats this year. Legislative contests that were once considered local or regional races are being nationalized, as concerns about abortion rights and voting rights—two issues that are up for grabs in statehouses—are putting Republican candidates in a perilous position.

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The numbers back up Williams’s assessment. On average, according to a fresh assessment by the data crunchers at FiveThirtyEight, Democrats are finishing 11 points better than the historic voting patterns of their districts would have predicted. That doesn’t mean that they are winning every race; sometimes, they are merely closing the gap in heavily Republican districts. But in other cases, Democrats are flipping Republican seats and raising the prospect that they will take control of legislative chambers that are currently controlled by the GOP.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1partyrule; democrats; demonicrats; elections; marxisttyranny; republicans; somuchwinning; states; winning; winningstreak
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To: DiogenesLamp
Married women have to manage a family, and you can't be making foolish decisions when you have responsibilities

Unfortunately, less people are getting married. So we have more single women. And they all need Uncle Sam to take take of her (and her children born out of wedlock).

61 posted on 09/22/2023 4:27:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: NohSpinZone
Our country has already been RUINED by DEMOCRATS!! OUR CITIES ARE CESSPOOLS, OUR GOVERNMENT....ALL OF IT ...IS TOTALLY CORRUPT!!

The DEMOCRATS are taking away ELECTRIC FANS, AFFORDABLE LIGHT BULBS....AIR CONDITIONING.....GAS POWERED CARS.....LOW FLOW TOILETS.....GAS STOVES.....and they are JUST STARTING!!

They are RUINING our SCHOOLS and OUR KIDS....ACTUALLY, there is NOTHING that DEMOCRATS TOUCH, that they DON'T RUIN! EVIL...PIURE EVIL!

62 posted on 09/22/2023 4:31:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Get REAL!!! WOMEN WANT TO MURDER THEIR BABIES...AND YOURS! PURE EVIL!

WE HAVE KICKED OUT GOD and HIS SON, JESUS, and MURDERED MILLIONS OF HIS GIFT OF LIFE....WE ARE DOOMED UNLESS WE GET BACK TO GOD!

You want to KILL YOUR BABY....go right ahead!

63 posted on 09/22/2023 4:33:36 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lastchance

They’re still liberal.

Socially liberal + fiscally conservative == liberal oligarch


64 posted on 09/22/2023 4:34:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Bobalu

yup. haven’t trusted elections be fair or honest in many many years. Glad some are able to document some fraud but their is much that slides.


65 posted on 09/22/2023 4:35:47 PM PDT by b4me
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To: napscoordinator
There are reasons beyond fraud.

You don't know that.

66 posted on 09/22/2023 4:37:05 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: NohSpinZone

Republicans have far more state and local offices to defend than Democrats. I think it will be different during the Presidential election.


67 posted on 09/22/2023 4:37:22 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: lastchance
They’ll tolerate run amok inflation for the sake of abortion and gender issues.

The same voters who voted for Brian Kemp in Georgia but for the POTUS, they casted their ballots for Joe Biden.

68 posted on 09/22/2023 4:37:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: NohSpinZone

Left wing BS...you can’t extrapolate a few idiot states into nationwide reality.


69 posted on 09/22/2023 4:39:06 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Ge0ffrey
Republicans have far more state and local offices to defend than Democrats. I think it will be different during the Presidential election.

As long as abortion remains an issue, we will probably see another repeat of the election of 2020.

New York is going to gerrymander their districts so Republicans will lose 5-8 seats in that state alone.

70 posted on 09/22/2023 4:39:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

bullcrap


71 posted on 09/22/2023 4:40:08 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: NohSpinZone

Can’t beat cheating.


72 posted on 09/22/2023 4:41:52 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: NohSpinZone

DemonRats have NEVER won an election without voter fraud.


73 posted on 09/22/2023 4:45:47 PM PDT by Conservative4Life (thy merchants were great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Rev18:23)
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To: NohSpinZone

Trump doesn’t stand a dog’s chance with how things are now.


74 posted on 09/22/2023 4:47:16 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: MinorityRepublican

“””Ronald Reagan was an actor. So he had a lot of training. That was why he was prepared to become President.”””

You don’t appear to know anything about Reagan.


75 posted on 09/22/2023 4:48:09 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Bobalu

Did you ever notice that even on this forum most people don’t seem to believe vote fraud has anything to do with it. They have a big list of other reasons though. Because conservatives like to be blind is why they are doomed.


76 posted on 09/22/2023 4:50:41 PM PDT by Revel
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To: napscoordinator

It’s almost pathological at this point. I group of folks with daffy political instincts have been in control of the party since 2016 (taking control away from a corrupt establishment with bad political instincts). Now that the new groups policies aren’t triumphing at the polls, it’s easier for them to tell themselves that all of the losses are due to fraud. For the record, I think that there is some fraud. I think there probably always has been to some degree. But, if I had to bet on it, these losses aren’t do to fraud. They’re happening because the new brand has motivated the opposition more than it’s own voters. I’d also venture to say that all of the supporters who badmouth all other Republicans as establishment deep staters have created this storm by ensuring that their voters don’t want to vote for other Republicans candidates because they now believe they aren’t worth it. They have created a cluster farm 🙄😵‍💫😵😳😒


77 posted on 09/22/2023 4:54:00 PM PDT by redheadedshannon
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To: NohSpinZone
Winning streak, is that what they call it now.?

Cards up you sleeve, dealing from the bottom of the deck, shuffling the cards under the table, that's all about skill in the mechanics of the game not about winning..

The professional politicians and lawyers own the game now. Honesty and fair play left that town a long time ago..

78 posted on 09/22/2023 5:01:31 PM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: NohSpinZone

I can’t believe this many people are that stupid. My only guess is that the art of stealing elections has been perfected.


79 posted on 09/22/2023 5:04:24 PM PDT by megaMAGA
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good luck with that. Have you heard the way a lot of the guys on here talk. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told my place is in a kitchen making sandwiches. I think you completely overstate the emotional stuff. Are you aware of how emotive & hormonal the modern male has become? 😉


80 posted on 09/22/2023 5:07:04 PM PDT by redheadedshannon
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