Special Election megathread (4/30: NY-26)

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People are acting like Turner is a total joke. She was an Ohio Senate Minority Whip.

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People are acting like Turner is a total joke. She was an Ohio Senate Minority Whip.

At this point, she is a total joke  And she was Senate Minority Whip once upon a time and would’ve been a top-tier serious contender if this were 2015, but that was before she spent four years burning every bridge under the sun.  Again, this isn’t even an ideological thing.

Naw, it's pretty clear that some don't like her because she endorsed Bernie and isn't a mindless neoliberal drone.

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Nina Turner in........literally hundreds of Republican ads. Nice job, genius.

This seat is D+ a bajillion, not an issue. If you're talking about being mentioned in other races nationally, I doubt it; she's hardly a known figure outside of progressive circles and there's limited mileage you can get by tying house members to some backbencher from their caucus.

The establishment always needs a scapegoat when crappy candidates like Shalala lose.

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Is Nina Turner actually behaving better now though? She was totally Susan Sarandon far left nonsense before this year.

"Behaving better..." I don't even get why you would care or be involved in politics if you're number one issue is a candidate's tone lol

I didn't mean tone, I meant her not being crazy anymore

Don't worry, they have corrupt neoliberal training when she gets to Congress.

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The main question I have is why Fudge even wanted to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the first place.

She didn’t. She wanted Agriculture and she spoke publicly about how she thinks black Cabinet members are often shunted to HUD.

To be fair, it would quite odd for a Congresswoman from a clearly entirely urban district to become Secretary of Agriculture. I suppose the Democrats are rather lacking in districts that include substantial amounts of farmland these days, but if there was going to be a black Congressperson who became Secretary of Agriculture, surely it would be someone like Bennie Thompson or Terri Sewell who actually represents a lot of farmers (though I don't think either of them in particular has focused much on agricultural issues).

That's what Shirley Chisholm thought at first.

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It doesn't matter with Keith Ellison, Bernie Sanders, and Nina Turner are frontrunners. Establishment purity trolls find a way to stop them.

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https://twitter.com/politics1com/status/1524115103867543553?s=21&t=_wOx-uMNH...

Pat ryan to face Molinaro in NY 19th special and general I assume.

Who knows what the district will be for next year.

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Apparently Della Pia swept every vote cast in Ithaca proper. It’s very rare for a candidate to win 100% of the vote in a batch of anything greater than about 30 votes. An 144 - 0 vote shows how toxic Rs are for these types of communities

144 seems way too low for the total number of votes in Ithaca proper.  The Tompkins County official results have (Della Pia first)

"City of Ithaca 1-1" 298 - 18
"City of Ithaca 1-2, 2-2" 285 - 21
"City of Ithaca 1-3" 283 - 20
"City of Ithaca 2-1, 2-3" 466 - 21
"City of Ithaca 2-4" 144 - 0
"City of Ithaca 3-1, 3-3, 4-1, 5-3" 157 - 7
"City of Ithaca 3-2" 397 - 17
"City of Ithaca 5-1, 5-2" 635 - 8
giving 2665 - 112 across the city as a whole.  So the 144 - 0 is just for one precinct, which looks to be the downtown area.

The surrounding Town of Ithaca was 2626 - 196.

Still, those are worse-than-DC numbers.

Well, the city of Ithaca is still more Republican than Detroit and Berkeley.

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Apparently Della Pia swept every vote cast in Ithaca proper. It’s very rare for a candidate to win 100% of the vote in a batch of anything greater than about 30 votes. An 144 - 0 vote shows how toxic Rs are for these types of communities

144 seems way too low for the total number of votes in Ithaca proper.  The Tompkins County official results have (Della Pia first)

"City of Ithaca 1-1" 298 - 18
"City of Ithaca 1-2, 2-2" 285 - 21
"City of Ithaca 1-3" 283 - 20
"City of Ithaca 2-1, 2-3" 466 - 21
"City of Ithaca 2-4" 144 - 0
"City of Ithaca 3-1, 3-3, 4-1, 5-3" 157 - 7
"City of Ithaca 3-2" 397 - 17
"City of Ithaca 5-1, 5-2" 635 - 8
giving 2665 - 112 across the city as a whole.  So the 144 - 0 is just for one precinct, which looks to be the downtown area.

The surrounding Town of Ithaca was 2626 - 196.

Still, those are worse-than-DC numbers.

Still more Republican than Detroit and Berkeley.

Wasn't there a pretty large precinct in Berkeley where Trump came in like 5th?

Maybe 4th in 2016. I think Trump might have gotten 2nd place in every Berkeley precinct in 2020.