2021 - 2024 Candidate news/polls/fundraising/ballot initiatives megathread

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GOP nominates a legal pimp in a Strong GOP district.  He defeated an incumbent, who is a hospital administrator.

Not that he’ll lose but yeesh

Who is this and what district?

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That's a lot of unnecessary caution for a lot of places that are heavily Democratic favored, primaries be damned. Shifting Iowa to tossup is the one place where they're actually ahead of the Atlas conventional wisdom.

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By overturning ballot initiatives, more lawmakers are rejecting the will of their voters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/08/14/daily-202-by-overturning-ballot-initiatives-more-lawmakers-are-rejecting-the-will-of-their-voters/5b724ae01b326b4f9e90a6f2/

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Really it's a bit unnerving when this start to becomes a trend, with lawmakers starting to think that the voters really don't matter and their opinions are irrelevant, so just toss aside initiatives they approve sometimes by overwhelming majorities. I'm beginning to think America needs a wave of initiative tampering laws, which essentially prevent lawmakers from making changes to initiated statutes unless they get the changes approved by voters. It would be a shame if they were so power hungry that they forced the people to tie their hands, because there are times when initiatives need some tinkering after the fact and it's much easier for lawmakers to do.

While ballot initiatives certainly have their issues, flat out ignoring them negates the whole point of having them in the first place.