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Following his 1910 election, State Senator Franklin Roosevelt ran for reelection in 1912 on a less-than-typical reformist Record, besting GOP challenger Jacob Southard and Progressive George Vossler by a wider margin than his 1910 win.
The 1910 NY SD-26 Election, a contest between Cousin of former Republican President Teddy Roosevelt, Democrat Franklin Roosevelt, and longtime incumbent John F. Schlosser resulted in an impressive win for the Hyde Park Patrician.
Yea heaven forbid we pay lawmakers and public figures a living wage
Very sorry but opposing and wanting term limits are something that is popular with a wide swath of the country and are fucking stupid and down right terrible for good governance
E-day is good for a left-wing Democrat compared to early?
Map in my Regular colors and by vote margin
The 2022 WI U.S. Senate election, a contest between Republican Incumbent Senator Ron Johnson, and Democratic Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes saw a surprisingly narrow R+1% victory for Johnson durring the red ripple that was the 2022 midterms.
As such, does Venezia keep th Venezia/Analilia voters due to regionalism or do they switch? (And to AA voters vote for him if there isnβt a progressive AA on the ballot?/do th burbs vote against that progressive AA because theyβre from the oranges & focus on campaigning there?)
This posits an interesting question of Ideology vs Regionalism. If I had to wager, had the oranges been in the seat, they would have voted for Tahesha way over Analilia MejΓa doing a full inverse of the 2025 assembly primary.
Venezia actually did better in Bloomfield than Carmen Morales (who was the districtβs top vote getter I. The primary) in 2025, with it and the wealthy burbs saving him vs the DfC candidate who was a councilwoman from one of the oranges/got aided by Baraka
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This actually posits an interesting question that has a lot of impact wrt Mike Venezia
On the one hand, they Predicted Zohran.
On the other hand, Sherrill +1%
and become the first non-Fusion Republican to win a citywide election.
The 1919 NYC President Of the Board of Aldermen Special election, a contest between appointed Democratic incumbent Robert L. Moran and Republican Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia following the resignation of elected Governor Al Smith saw La Guardia win
Something i do think Dems should take into account that since Trump has broken all these precedents, letβs take gerrymandering as an example, and we finally start to bring a gun to a knife fight, we get rewarded for it or at least face 0 negative
But Rβs are caught completely flat-footed
see weβre at the point of Republicans doing something bad cycle whee itβs time to say why voting for Democrats up and down is worse
Not even two months apart. Holy Mother Mary and her newborn baby in Bethlehem
Again: βOn this night, I feel like it should be noted that we REALLY need to repeal the 2001 AUMF as soon as practicableβ
She claimed the nomination, by her own admission, because Biden handed it to her & made it impossible for Pelosi/Obama (two actually smart political operators) to wrest it from her.
This action is reminiscent of her catastrophic & embarrassing 2020 Primary campaign, but with *gravitas*
Kamala gets a lot of grace for the position Biden put her in. But we have to acknowledge that sheβs also not a good political operator.
Went from feeling somewhat positive about her despite everything to strongly negative.
Worse decision than any specific decision she made in 2024.
The 2014 AK Senate election, a contest between incumbent Democratic senator Mark Begich, and former GOP Attorney General Dan Sullivan saw Sullivan narrowly best Begich in a divisive contest that ended up being the most expensive Senate Election in Alaska History
the consolidation of major media institutions by the presidentβs oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. butβ¦
It wasnβt as bad as the 2021 mayoralty β but it was still very racially polarized! bsky.app/profile/sage...
Like CBS broadcast isnβt already the most right-wing of the major networks π« π« π« π«
I live in her district and am the board president of a 100% occupied market-rate (βluxuryβ) condo building. Zero vacancy. The units besides mine are rented to tech workers, a dentist, etc. Zero diplomats, no idea where she got that idea. They live in Midtown East, her district is Brooklyn.