So the President of the Iowa Senate lost re-election

[Atlas Force]

Old news I know but still

https://twitter.com/lrishConservNat/status/1595796584930869250

https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1596172797117534209?cxt=HHwWgsCoxfes36YsAAA...

[bagelman]

This district is in the fast growing western Des Moines suburbs (Waukee) and went from Trump +8 to Biden +1.7 from 2016-20. The rich boy right winger decided that the best way to hold onto this D trending district was to spout "groomer" hysteria.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/2022/11/09/iowa-senate-presidents-race-among-those-in-dallas-county-too-close-to-call/69611710007/

Chapman, 38, of Adel, said his top priority was lowering property taxes.

He got a lot of attention earlier this year for claiming in his opening legislative speech that media and teachers have a "sinister agenda" to normalize sexually deviant behavior against children. Chapman later filed a bill to apply to teachers and school administrators criminal penalties for the distribution of obscene material or hardcore pornography to minors.

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy. Rest in piss.

[ProgressiveModerate]

It seems like this cycle, Rs really suffered around Des Moines on the state legislative level. I wonder how much of that is longer term shifts and how much may have been specific to this election.

Rs really miscalculated on the redistricting thing though. Sure, they didn't have complete control, bu thtye did have influence and tried to get maps that'd give them supermajorities in both chambers. As part of this, they made like a bunch of Biden + 1 seats around Des Moines ig they thought they could hold even though they lost a bunch and there's a good chance between further population shifts and future cycles being better for Dems, they don't win many or any of them back.

Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to save Axne .

[Mr.Phips]

It seems like this cycle, Rs really suffered around Des Moines on the state legislative level. I wonder how much of that is longer term shifts and how much may have been specific to this election.

Rs really miscalculated on the redistricting thing though. Sure, they didn't have complete control, bu thtye did have influence and tried to get maps that'd give them supermajorities in both chambers. As part of this, they made like a bunch of Biden + 1 seats around Des Moines ig they thought they could hold even though they lost a bunch and there's a good chance between further population shifts and future cycles being better for Dems, they don't win many or any of them back.

Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to save Axne .

The IA-03 that was drawn was the most Republican district possible that contained Polk county.  She may well have survived in the old district this year.

[ProgressiveModerate]

It seems like this cycle, Rs really suffered around Des Moines on the state legislative level. I wonder how much of that is longer term shifts and how much may have been specific to this election.

Rs really miscalculated on the redistricting thing though. Sure, they didn't have complete control, bu thtye did have influence and tried to get maps that'd give them supermajorities in both chambers. As part of this, they made like a bunch of Biden + 1 seats around Des Moines ig they thought they could hold even though they lost a bunch and there's a good chance between further population shifts and future cycles being better for Dems, they don't win many or any of them back.

Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to save Axne .

The IA-03 that was drawn was the most Republican district possible that contained Polk county.  She may well have survived in the old district this year.

The new config is only 0.2% redder, so prolly not.

[Tekken_Guy]

This seat wasn't supposed to be up until 2024 and Chapman tried to snag an extra seat for the GOP two years early.

I imagine Garriott's now a top recruit to take on Nunn in 2024 if Axne doesn't seek a rematch.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

I'm sorry, how do you become President of the Senate at 38?

[Schiff for Senate]

This district is in the fast growing western Des Moines suburbs (Waukee) and went from Trump +8 to Biden +1.7 from 2016-20. The rich boy right winger decided that the best way to hold onto this D trending district was to spout "groomer" hysteria.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/2022/11/09/iowa-senate-presidents-race-among-those-in-dallas-county-too-close-to-call/69611710007/

Chapman, 38, of Adel, said his top priority was lowering property taxes.

He got a lot of attention earlier this year for claiming in his opening legislative speech that media and teachers have a "sinister agenda" to normalize sexually deviant behavior against children. Chapman later filed a bill to apply to teachers and school administrators criminal penalties for the distribution of obscene material or hardcore pornography to minors.

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy. Rest in piss.

Good background info, thanks - and yes, I absolutely agree, this scumbag deserved his fate.

Just in terms of the state legislative leader being in a district with adverse trends losing reelection, this really reminds me of Carrie DelRosso flipping her seat red in PA after thirty years back in 2020.

[Schiff for Senate]

It seems like this cycle, Rs really suffered around Des Moines on the state legislative level. I wonder how much of that is longer term shifts and how much may have been specific to this election.

Rs really miscalculated on the redistricting thing though. Sure, they didn't have complete control, bu thtye did have influence and tried to get maps that'd give them supermajorities in both chambers. As part of this, they made like a bunch of Biden + 1 seats around Des Moines ig they thought they could hold even though they lost a bunch and there's a good chance between further population shifts and future cycles being better for Dems, they don't win many or any of them back.

Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to save Axne .

The IA-03 that was drawn was the most Republican district possible that contained Polk county.  She may well have survived in the old district this year.

I know this one probably wouldn't be compact enough to stand muster, but here's a Polk County district in IA that's quite a bit redder than the IRL commisssion-created IA-03 (admittedly, this is with 2016 rather than 2020 results, but I don't believe the seat swung enough to the left in 2020 to vote to the left of the IA-03 the commission created).