General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou guys wanna hear some GOOD news?
New York's 9th Assembly district had a special election when the Republican in the seat quit to take another job.
That district went for Trump 61-38% last year. The Republican who just left has been there since 2004 and last election won with 69%.
Christine Pellagrino is their new Democratic Assembly member who won with 58%
Could this be a trend?
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)fingers crossed.
woodsprite
(11,911 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)seaglass
(8,171 posts)seaglass
(8,171 posts)else. I'm thinking the fact that she is a DEMOCRAT is what led to the win.
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)in the intrest of healing i'll just let it go
salster
(15 posts)Made my blood boil instantly to read that.
"Berniecrat or Trump", should be the motto of anyone who is so closed minded.
mcar
(42,302 posts)Congrats to her.
people are catching on. Tired of being lied to by people with low I.Q.'s like tRump. Let's get some SANE people in our government.
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)He has a 4:1 match donation thing going. I gave him $5 last nite.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I get those emails frequently - 2x match, 3x match, 4x match, etc. (Not just for Ossof, but for Rob Quist in Montana now as well)
Who is doing the matching? The DNC? DCCC? George Soros? Mark Cuban?
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)For sure it's rich liberals that want to defeat the repubs at every turn.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)I care because I suspect it's just BULLSHIT to tempt my last fiver out of my wallet on the fantasy notion that it's magically going to turn into FIVE fivers! It's like those "surveys" I get at least twice a month - asking the same inane questions, over and over. There's NEVER EVER any tabulation of the results of those surveys..... other than to count up the money that was provoked from contributor's purses and pockets.
At best, just beg for money to keep losing with. Don't try to play to my emotions to sucker me into emptying my coin purse! QUADRUPLE-matched! That could be some SERIOUS change in the end. And yet there's NEVER any accountability of it - it's only ON to the next deception.
Through the long (and sadly, fixed) charade that was the 2016 primaries, I coughed up two grand for a white-haired old gent that ran on integrity (Oh, OF COURSE! I know they ALL did - all spotless and sanitary-like! Sure! That's why DWS recused herself.) and I can't recall ONCE when a plea from his camp went out with the hocus-pocus of many-matched funds - or panderous surveys that were just a bad shell game of HEY! Open your wallet, dummy!
How many of you have given to Quist's or Ossoff's quests? Yeah, I LOVE having my intellect kicked in it's face. Send them a few bucks and sit back to receive the guilt trips that'll stuff you mailbox....... "QUADRUPLE MATCHED - if you send $3 dollars in the next 5 minutes!" "OMG! - ALL is lost! Have you SEEN how much we suspect the other side is POURING into our challenger's campaign???"
How long before we progress to SEXTUPLE-Matched? or Octuple-matched??? Just as soon as they sense you're out of steam for quadruple-matched. Just wait and see. OH! And send that 3 dollars before midnight. After midnight, the "matchmaker" turns into a pumpkin.
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)I do NOT click on his emails anymore. The subject lines drive me crazy! Almost sorry I donated!
Bad News
Awful News
we. fell. short.
Lost for Good
Tragic End
ENOUGH ALREADY!
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Quist's campaign is pulling the same crap. I wrote and told them: Keep insulting me - see what it gets you. :grr"
Neema
(1,151 posts)I wrote "You send waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many emails and the subject lines are all incredibly alarmist. We already have enough actual bad news to read every day without getting stuff like this every couple of hours in our inbox. It's like the Boy Who Cried Wolf. When you actually do have something concrete I need to be concerned about, I won't even give it a second glance."
Who knows if anyone read it but I did stop getting emails.
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)I've designated them as 'spam' now, so they're not jamming my inbox. I don't mind giving, and I give to many candidates, and it's a lot of money. I hate being treated like some low IQ sucker for my troubles, though. Just the other day I got a plea from Al Franken to donate to Quist. Okay, another donation for Quist, I thought. When they emailed the receipt I saw that Franken got half of the donation I thought was going to Quist alone! I don't mind giving to Al, I've given a LOT of money to him. I just thought it was a sneaky way to get more money for himself.
Boy, do we need campaign finance reform, or what?
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)The old "split it" donation wrangle. And AFTER you get fooled a few times, you start to really watch closely, how your generosity is tweaked. Yet, still , I find myself snookered. I don't like it!
And another thing to monitor is the repeat contributions phenomenon. Having given online for decades now, I've learned to pay attention to the details. I'm 72, but I'm conscious enough to know I'm not a dithering geriatric yet (and you KNOW the staffs of these folks LOVE to snag some less aware sorts with unintended monthly contributions option!). Clever how even tho Act Blue has already presented you the option of making your donation recurring - you get the blinking blue squares and the alert "Payment being processed" only to be asked again, if I wouldn't like to make it monthly.
And while we're at it, just how did the $3 dollar come-on get established? Or the $1 dollar one for that matter. OK, 3 bucks, sure, less than a drink at ManyBucks - I can do that! Then you're taken to a screen where 3 bucks (or one) aren't anywhere to be seen amongst the suggested donation amounts - the least usually being $5. There's a WAY less than subtle sly-cology being used here. And then they want us to support them because of their honesty and integrity!
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)Probably some super pac, but not sure.
I feel sheepish...hey, it must be true, right? It's on the internet!
I don't think they are ripping people off, though, because they come through Daily Kos, which is pretty reputable.
dlk
(11,552 posts)Citizen participation by voting is the basis of our democracy. By not voting, Americans give two votes to the person they don't agree with. This looks like it may be a turning point, however, doing everything we can to register voters, drive them to the polls and even helping pay for the ID they may need to register must be continuing projects. The other side never gives up and neither should we!
kacekwl
(7,016 posts)benfranklin1776
(6,443 posts)Every seat must be contested as these criminals, and any elected official not opposing this treasonous administration with every fiber of his or her being is complicit, must be driven from power as the damage they are doing to our democracy and the people's welfare is is incalculable.
malthaussen
(17,187 posts)... but there have been rumblings in other Republican strongholds. It's still some time to the 2018 elections, though, where any trend will be revealed.
-- Mal
rpannier
(24,329 posts)seaglass
(8,171 posts)New Hampshire Democrats flipped a state House seat in a district that Donald Trump won by 7% in 2016. No Democrat had ever won the district before, and the victory is the first seat in the country at any level to flip from red to blue after the election of Trump.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)It's called a wave. In 2010 there was a repub wave. The signs were all there. Many of us ignored it. I hope the repubs do the same.
PennyK
(2,302 posts)Next, get Peter King out of his seat. How I hat him!
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Flipping red districts in blue states is a good start.
Let's hope it's the beginnings of a wave.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)Red to Blue
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)Stay woke, Dems!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)We may have the beginnings of a massive democratic wave election in 2018.
demmiblue
(36,841 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Earth Bound Misfit
(3,554 posts)Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)More evidence that voters want Sanders-type of statespersons...
niyad
(113,259 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)The website has been wiped clean for the most part.
http://nyassembly.gov/mem/?ad=009&sh=comm
Saladino was elected as Town of Oyster Bay supervisor in January.
If the reporting is accurate, I'm not sure I've seen voter turnout this low. I'll take it.
Her main issue is education. Makes sense considering she has been an elementary school teacher for over a decade.
Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)I sure hope it's a trend. Especially in Texas...please let this be the break that we get to finally turn Texas blue.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)their systems, got rid of old/malfunctioning/ paperless voting machines and quit using Interstate Crosscheck. The recent SCOTUS ruling on gerrymandering is a great start.
DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts). . .sent volunteers to help win this seat.
http://nypan.org/
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)but also the other guys aren't worried and stayed home
Good news, we're competitive, but it will be closer in a presidential election year
murielm99
(30,733 posts)There were quite a number of local and state offices flipped in Republican areas in Illinois. We may be a blue state, but there are rural areas and suburban areas where republicans expect to win. Their turnout was low in a lot of those local races. Democrats won, in many cases where there had not been Democrats in office for a long, long time.
GOTV, people, even where they cheat and suppress the vote. We can do this. We have the numbers.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Let the games begin!
intheflow
(28,462 posts)No Democrat ran, but the very liberal Independent slammed the Republican candidate by almost 2-to-1 margin. That despite my only seeing a few lawn signs for her and 5 or 6 of the Republican candidates' supporters at the major intersection in town every day for two weeks for hours on end.
So maybe, hopefully, yes. This is a trend.