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> The ICE guys will be hanging around in urban neighborhoods with lots of minorities. Such as parts of Milwaukee and Detroit. Which they have been. How did th
by mcphage 9mo ago
> The ICE guys will be hanging around in urban neighborhoods with lots of minorities. Such as parts of Milwaukee and Detroit.
Which they have been. How did that go in the special election a few days ago?
- jeffbee 9mo agoThere was a recent first-past-the-post statewide special election somewhere?
- FreakLegion 9mo agoTaylor Rehmet just won a Texas senate seat by 14%. It was a 31% swing from the results in that district in the 2024 elections.
- jeffbee 8mo agoAs I said to the other guy, the way that Trump wants to disrupt elections is not applicable to district elections.
- FreakLegion 8mo agoYou said: > This is electionist cope. The elections are decided in a handful of states with narrow margins. And the other guy's point was that the backlash against Trump is significant enough that this time around elections may not be decided that way. As evidence: A Texas district that was Republican for 25 years, that voted Republican by a 17% margin in November 2024, just elected a Democrat by 14% (after he'd already won by 12% in November 2025). This is separate from the obvious fact that House seats are decided in district elections and are all up for grabs this year.
- mcphage 8mo agoState house elections, 2 of them in Minnesota: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/27/specials-elections-for-minnesota-house-district-47a-and-64a-favor-dfl-could-restore-tie https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/27/specials-elections-...