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Taking a cue from the 2020 US Presidential Elections thread, where this was posted:
I agree with this. Downballot contests don't get enough scrutiny, and they really should. Not just congress, but smaller offices are important, as well. When you are in serious trouble, or want signals at an intersection fixed, do you contact the president of the united states, or your senator, or do you contact your local officials? National politics is about philosophy, local politics is about how we live, day to day.
To get started, lets look at congressional races in 2020...
Here is an article about how progressives like Alexandria Occasio-Cortez, Ayana Pressley, and Marie Newman won their primaries.
Here is an article about how Jamaal Bowman, Monderie Jones, and Cameron Webb did well.
McGrath defeated the progressive Charles Booker in Kentucky.
Where I live, we are focused on getting rid of congressman Scott Perry. Perry married an old high school friend of mine, so he might be a nice guy, but politically, he is just pure evil. I'm backing Eugene DePasquale, who is the democratic nominee against him. DePasquale is the Auditor General of Pennsylvania. Here's an opinion piece about Perry that DePasquale published yesterday in the Patriot News. I am not actively political class any more, but people who are tell me there are insane amounts of money pouring into our district for this contest right now. RCP is currently calling this contest a toss up.
So what are the downballot contests looking like where you are? Which contests are important to you?
That resulted in a conversation where people said we need a thread for downballot contests.As far as I know, before your mention, nothing at all was said on VVO about Jamaal Bowman's upset victory. Bernie supporters were calling it the AOC mement of 2020. When it appeared that he had won I came to VVO to see if he had been mentioned. I came days later when it was more certain he had won. I came here when his victory was official. Crickets.
I thought for sure that a group of people who were both progressive and informed by more than MSNBC would know about Jamaal and would be excited by his victory. Crickets.
I came here just now to see if Cori Bush rated a mention. Crickets.
I agree with this. Downballot contests don't get enough scrutiny, and they really should. Not just congress, but smaller offices are important, as well. When you are in serious trouble, or want signals at an intersection fixed, do you contact the president of the united states, or your senator, or do you contact your local officials? National politics is about philosophy, local politics is about how we live, day to day.
To get started, lets look at congressional races in 2020...
Here is an article about how progressives like Alexandria Occasio-Cortez, Ayana Pressley, and Marie Newman won their primaries.
Here is an article about how Jamaal Bowman, Monderie Jones, and Cameron Webb did well.
McGrath defeated the progressive Charles Booker in Kentucky.
Where I live, we are focused on getting rid of congressman Scott Perry. Perry married an old high school friend of mine, so he might be a nice guy, but politically, he is just pure evil. I'm backing Eugene DePasquale, who is the democratic nominee against him. DePasquale is the Auditor General of Pennsylvania. Here's an opinion piece about Perry that DePasquale published yesterday in the Patriot News. I am not actively political class any more, but people who are tell me there are insane amounts of money pouring into our district for this contest right now. RCP is currently calling this contest a toss up.
So what are the downballot contests looking like where you are? Which contests are important to you?