It was a good night for Democrats and social democrats, with a big blue sweep all across the country. Mamdani won, although I think it helped that a corrupt clown like Cuomo (who was endorsed by Trump) was his opponent. Virginia turned a vibrant shade of purple. The California referendum on legalized gerrymandering passed, which I have mixed feelings about. Trump is literally hated by a significant fraction of the population, and I think he’s dragging the Republican party down. The Democratic party is also down — let’s hope that the leadership learns to recognize that their tepid timidity is not exactly electrifying the electorate.
Here’s one good summary of yesterday’s outcome.
He’s not right about Omar Fateh, who is running against Jacob Frey for mayor of Minneapolis. Minneapolis has ranked choice voting, and while Frey is ahead in the first pass, he didn’t reach the threshold — it’s going to take a few more days to tally up all the votes. Also, Kaohly Her, a Hmong woman and DFL candidate, won the St Paul mayoral race.
This is a good start to retaking the country from fascists. It is not the bigger 2026 midterm elections, though, and most definitely not even close to a 2028 presidential election, but we’re going in the right direction. I’m sure Trump is already annoyed and might be scheming to commit even more radical crimes in the near future.
Hmmm.. grteat tohave this good news fromUSoA elections.
Stil worried over how fair the mid-terms likely won’t be.
Good news. 2026 will be a wipe out for the House of Representatives. The Senate may flip too. Buried deep in the 2025 project is a ferocious program of privatization, selling off many government functions to oligarch billionaires. Destroying Social Security and Medicare et al is just a beginning. The GOP may have doomed itself with such insanity long term.
https://inthepublicinterest.org/privatization-report-3-18-2025/
That’s assuming we still have free and fair elections in a year. Trunk and Hegseth have made public plans to deploy national guard troops to all 50 states to help “supervise” the 2026 election. We’ll see what that does for Democratic turn out…
@3 IX-103, the ■■■■ing idiot
According to German satirical news website Postillon, you have to be afraid of even more drastic countermeasures.
@ ^ lasius : Yikes! Actually, yeah, wouldn’t put it past him..
@3 IX-103, the ■■■■ing idiot : Yup. Fear that’s a very big IF these years. Under this regime.
@2 cheerfulcharlie : I wish I had your confidence and could believe that – starting with the idea that there’ll be mid-terms next year at all. Hope you are right but afraid I very much doubt it – if the electiosn are free and fair Trump will lose badly – and that’s why I don’t think there will
All in all, a good day. But, over at Fox, this was their headline :
Clinton celebrates Dems’ victories as socialist Mamdani set to take control of America’s biggest city.
I literally snorted up my tea upon reading that. Clinton? WTF? Why any focus on her at this late stage? As for the dig at Mamdani, that’s no surprise. Get ready, they’ll hammer the Dems with the socialist label for the next year. It’ll be their new Woke, CRT, and they/them all rolled into one.
@6
Because they literally all have one brain cell, and one of the biological equivalents of a computer’s “bit”, has been stuck on “Clinton”, for a long time now. So, every time they try to compute literally anything the answer is like 2+2 = 3 + Clinton.
What will be important in future elections. Saving Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, Women’s healthcare and more. No amount of cheating on the part of the GOP, will help. Sweeping the swarm of idiots Trump put into the government such as Roadkill Kennedy Jr. out will make voting Democratic attractive. Attempts by the GOP to cheat infuriate many and backfire hugely. Reining in the nonsense of ICE will be an issue. Adding voting booth “Monitors” sicced on America by the GOP will be just as unpopular. Killing Project 2025 dead will be a grand thumb in the eye of the GOP.
Passed by a huge margin.
It was 64% yes to 36% no.
True. Trump is trying very hard to impoverish the entire US population while handing the US to the ultra-rich oligarchy.
The GOP is fully complicit and will destroy the USA if they can.
One thing this election has shown in flashing neon lights with fireworks and sirens it that the US people want leadership and resistance to the destruction of the US democracy.
Old white guys like Chuck Schumer, the Democratic party leader of the Senate are obsolete. Schumer does a great imitation of a house plant and that is about it.
We’ve been a democracy for 236 years and it was working well up until January, 2025, when Trump was elected.
Me too, but I voted for it. Unilateral disarmament is not an effective strategy. A federal prohibition on gerrymandering would be nice, though unlikely, and perhaps unconstitutional.
As a California voter, we were being swamped with anti-Prop 50 messages (the redistricting proposition) for several months. Literally, a postcard in the mail every other day as well as continuous ads on cable, much of it being paid for by Charlie Munger, jr, trust-fund baby of Charlie Munger, Sr, former vice-chair of Berkshire-Hathaway. This stopped about a month or so ago. Apparently, the GOP backers being hit in the head by a brick with polls showing it was going to pass overwhelmingly, decided the effort was fruitless and backed off. It passed overwhelmingly. People here really hate trump.
I voted for Newsom’s legalized gerrymandering to slap Trump’s and Greg Abbott’s face. I can’t do much but vote, and often for things and people I don’t fully approve of, as signals to the powers that be.
Just to prove how out of it he is, Trump is digging in his heels about releasing the SNAP funds. He’s also demanding Democrats get back to work to end the shut down. As I understand it, Democrats are in Washington and ready to work. Johnson has sent the Republicans home. Little brats can blame other children only so long.
I note that in the article about Her’s victory that the St. Paul city council is now entirely women. That’s a good sign. Elect more women in 2026. The fact that the 119th Congress is still about 70%-75% straight white Christian men is a testament to just how lopsided our government is.
I wonder how practical it would be for Democratic voters in 2026 to have their votes notarized or some other method of being able to PROVE that they voted the way they claim they did.
The Virginia results were way better than I and probably most people expected. Spanberger was a very strong gubernatorial candidate so that helped tremendously. Jay Jones was almost not expected to win the Attorney General race, especially by a such a decent margin considering his controversy leading up to the election, that the Republican incumbent outspend him by a large amount and the GOP incumbent while being a Trump minion, was still seen as a strong candidate nonetheless. And Ghazala Hashmi winning by a double-digit margin for LT. Gov. was way better than I expected. And Virginia Dems picking up so much seats was mind-blowing.
The New Jersey election was not as nearly as competitive I thought it would be, I expected Sherrill to win by a narrow margin, maybe 3-4% at best but I was already to accept the fact she might lose too. The other elections around the country were also surprisingly good (I live in WA state and the Dem candidates look poised to win all the special elections that were in highly competitive seats, and most progressive candidates seem to be on track to win over moderates in Seattle). Also, In Aurora, Colorado, one on the Republican city councilors (Danielle Jurinsky) that spread the Venezuelan gang myth that Trump then adopted will handily lose her seat to a rational candidate despite her raising a insane amount of funds for a such a hyperlocal race.
And Mamdani won the NYC mayoral election despite all the smears and attacks. And California voters supporting prop 50 by such large margin was stunning to me as well. Voting works and I almost lost sight of that because of how awful everything feels at the moment. This was a good day.
Another one: Mary Sheffield, a Democrat, won the election for mayor of Detroit to become the first woman mayor of the city. I gather it’s nominally a non-party election.
Also seeing that Democrats flipped two seats in the Mississippi Senate…Mississippi!…costing the GOP their supermajority there.
I think it would be terribly ironic if Republicans carve out “Red” districts only for those districts to vote “Blue” because GOP politicians are so corrupt and inept.
Topical and spidery clue from today’s Guardian cryptic crossword:
American Right are rebuked, including number one web users (9)
ARACHNIDA
… Trump … might be scheming to commit even more radical crimes in the near future.
Might be??!? Please elucidate whatever grounds for doubt you perceive.
Ah, if only Dick Cheney had lived one more day, so that he could have gone to Valhalla knowing how thoroughly USAnian voters rejected his party…
Pierce R. Butler @ #18 & #19 — I’m sure your implication is correct: Taco will continue to scheme to get richer and stay in power (and out of jail). I’m not so sure about Cheney. Though he was as despicable as Taco the two were at complete odds. It seems that Trump’s GOP was not Cheney’s GOP.
robro @ # 20: … Trump’s GOP was not Cheney’s GOP.
Indeed: Trump took it away.
Liz Cheney’s attempted pushback against the Trumpistas always seemed to me not a matter of principle, just an attempt to reclaim the power of the Bush-Cheney faction within the Republican Party.
Viewed that way, it came as no surprise whatsoever that she failed utterly.
Valhalla is only open to warriors that die on the battlefield. Old men who die in bed go to the hall of Hel.
A question: Do you think the election result will stiffen the spines of the Democrats in congress during the shutdown?
(Silly question, they will find some excuse to fold. They always fold)
That is a silly question, because the Dems that are currently in office are in no way responsible for the R majority shutdown. America is quite accurately blaming the Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Dumpster for their incompetence.
I can’t find a single election that the Dems didn’t win, even in districts that are supposedly Republican strongholds like Mississippi and Georgia.
Ahem. Officially the longest shutdown of government in history.
(In this case, they have not folded yet, have they?)