You can. It's pretty much over. Those aren't analogous situations.
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You can. It's pretty much over. Those aren't analogous situations.
Very well. But if you're wrong on this, you get demoted down to bulbasaur.
47 points?! That can't be right...
The remaining vote to come in is most republican, but Watkins has a 3,000+ lead with 80% in.
Also:
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thepotatoman
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Colorado's Jefferson County education board recalled, so overall I'd consider tonight a big liberal victory in colorado too.
No more rewriting history for them.
No more rewriting history for them.
They are, but the nearest R candidate is nearly 200,000 behind the weakest Dem candidate with 65% reporting. There aren't enough votes for them to catch up.
Yeah, seems like another GOTV fail in an off year.
Black Republican
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RIP the dem party in Kentucky, wipe out
RustyNails
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nice work ky
Well they still control the AG, the Secretary of State and the State house...
benjipwns
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Most people focus on the Presidential elections. But the Solid South didn't truly break until 1994 for Governors, Congress and State Legislatures. (You can see the decline start in those Virginia graphs from 1968 forward though.)
It's also recently that blue states became YES, BLUE at the state level: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/red-blue/
California is unique for the mainland in its slow transfer to complete dominance by the Democratic Party. Even New York has had split legislatures and Republican Governors (like George Pataki, available now for President!) and even NYC Mayors at regular rates in modern times so it hasn't fully transitioned from Republican stronghold to Democratic one just yet like California has.
Hawai'i is different, other than Linda Lingle it's almost a one-party state. There's exactly one Republican State Senator. There hasn't been more than three (out of 25) except for one term since 1989. There's been less than 10 out of 51 House Republicans since 2007. (Currently 7.)
There's never been more than 19 Republican House members and 10 Republican House Senators since Hawai'i's first "normal" elections in 1962. After Hiram Fong retired there's never been a Republican U.S. Senator, and other than Pat Saiki's brief period 1987-1990 and Charles Djou, taking advantage of a special election where neither major Democrat would drop out so he won with 39%, for 2010-2011, there's never been a Republican member of the U.S. House.
Aaron Strife
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More than can be said for several blue states.
OuterLimits
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Glad to see the Republicans will likely keep hold of VA Senate. Looks like (R)Sturtevant will barely beat (D) Gecker. A ton of ads were shown for that race on both sides.
It's been a long time since I've lived in Hawaii, but the people I know say that it's actually become a notorious machine politics state because of how one-party it is.
Also, the main reason Hawaii has had so many Democratic US Congressmen is that it just always reelects the incumbent in every election unless they die.
Also, the main reason Hawaii has had so many Democratic US Congressmen is that it just always reelects the incumbent in every election unless they die.
Bam Bam Baklava
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I'm just shocked Virginia is so resistant to low turnout, anti-Obama, wave years. Bodes well for 2016.
The Republicans know Hawaii isn't traditional american or something like that.
QuiteWhittle
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at Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin.Hawaii's been majority minority since it became a state. The GOP has no message there.
benjipwns
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Or they stupidly run for Governor then stink at it so much even the Democrats kick them out.
Frank Fasi pulled the old Southern State thing where a popular but not quite enough Democrat avoids the primaries by running as a Republican so he could get the Mayorship back. He was Mayor 1969-1981, 1985-1994. (A few southern Republican Party basically came into real existence (with regular staff and funding, etc.) because of so many people doing this. In the early 1990's Buddy Roemer pulled it in disastrous Lincoln Chafee/Charlie Crist like fashion. Then later ran a doomed campaign for President. Just like Chafee and hopefully Crist.)
Mufi Hannemann almost did in the same thing in 2014 because he had angered so many in the Democratic machine over years of patronage clashes, but then Manny Pacquiao endorsed Duke Aiona so he ran as an Independent. (This last part may or may not be in the correct order of events.)
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/p...c_Supreme_Court_race.html#q2ATixdJHReOGWsz.99
I'll take this win for the night.
benjipwns
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Well, it is a sovereign nation, the Kingdom of Hawai'i. Which is why Obama isn't eligible to be President of this Republic.
Orbis Tabula
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I sure hope I don't need healthcare any time soon.
Basileus777
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More states will be joining them soon enough. NJ is less than a decade away from being majority non-white.
OuterLimits
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Hillary should have a slight advantage, although it is by no means a lock for her in the state. Also depends on who is running against her and what happens in next year. A year is an eternity in politics.
benjipwns
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Another e-mail scandal takes out a Democrat.
Hawaii was almost completely GOP dominated until statehood. Hawaii seems like one of those states that, due to it's peculiar formation, is probably going to vote one party for a long, long time.
Captain Pants
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I got out of work and voted today. Boise should re-elect Dave Bieter, a democrat. Here's hoping anyway.
benjipwns
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One reason is because as a Territory, their high political positions were all essentially appointed by the President since he appointed the Governor. And that creates political careers.
Their non-voting House seat was mostly dominated by two guys (one of whom was a Prince of the Kingdom) who served until they died and the one guys wife. So in other words, nothing's changed on that front. Together those three served 33 of the first 59 years. Add in another feller who resigned to join the war and you get 45 years.
Oh, and the freakin' Doles were Republicans. They kicked the bucket right as it moving towards statehood which probably helped.
benjipwns
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I typed in "Boise" into Google and this is the first news result:
The election story on there has Bieter winning with 74% of the vote so far.
cartoon_soldier
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Dems really need a new DNC chair.
DWS is just bad at her job.
DWS is just bad at her job.
Captain Pants
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Ha! Awesome. When I checked just a bit ago none of the districts were reporting. Then again, it can't take that long to count them. No one else I know voted today. Every now and then I get the feeling that 500 like minded people could completely change this town just by showing up to vote on non-Presidential election years.
The obvious replacement is Chafee.
benjipwns
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Well, technically, his point still stands. The Paulites were the only ones who actually bothered to find out how the delegates were actually selected. Everyone else went home after the straw poll and never came back, let alone attended the convention.
This happened in a lot of caucus states.
The Obama team did the same thing. If you remember, they worked out pacts with Kucinich and Edwards people in different states. The fact that Mark Penn didn't know how caucuses worked probably helped too.
Alan Grayson.
RastaMentality
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Sorry to be kinda clueless but what does the party chair have power over in the state elections? Getting the GOTV message out?
how does that work? WA is a D state now.
Retromelon
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Low taxes, shrinking bloated and inefficient government, and personal responsibility does not discern between ethnicitiy
benjipwns
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