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Maybe this will inspire more working-class people to run for political office.
I liked his premise. It's a good idea, appeal to the people who aren't voting.
A Republican just won an election in Seattle City Government for the first time in three decades. This election has seen some big shifts in the electorate, even in some deeply-Democratic areas. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/republica...
A "Republican" who has previous run as a Democrat and has voted for Democrats in all recent presidential elections. This says less about any shift in the electorate than it does about the extremism of the Seattle left.
NJ and Virginia governorships were both supposed to be easy wins for incumbent Democrats. So far, one has lost and one is too close to call.
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It's so bonkers. America has the most unfettered gun ownership laws in the developed world by a mile and somehow it's still a political wedge that can outweigh healthcare, fair taxation, education.
New Jersey (along with NY, CA) has the most unconstitutional gun control laws in America. If I have a daughter who's returning home late at night from University, I would want her to be armed for her own protection. Things like "taxation" are not the most important thing to her.
According to this website he won but according to ballotopedia he lost?
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> It is most certainly illegal to use hollow points in any instance in a case of self defense, even if the self defense is warranted. That makes no sense and if that's the case, it's definitely unconstitutional.
Also, who shoots hollow points at the range? They're super expensive.
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In theory it's possible for TX to split into 5 states. https://www.honestaustin.com/texapedia/texas-split-divide-in...
In theory, it’s possible for Texas to split into any number of States. I wouldn’t put money on it.
Such a theory (this really refers to the Texas-specific 5 state theory upthread; your “any number” theory, which presumably is the same theory that applies to any State, is valid, but not unilateral like the 5-state theory) exists, but it requires starting with a dubious interpretation of the act annexing Texas, and then flatly ignoring the act admitting Texas.
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Looking at decision desk, he's leading with 96% in: New Jersey State Senate 3 CANDIDATE | VOTES | PERCENT Edward Durr GOP | 32,682 | 51.85% Steve Sweeney DEM (Incumbent) | 30,352 | 48.15% 63,034 votes. Estimated 96% in. DDHQ, Updated 2021-11-03, 5:00:25 PM https://results.decisiondeskhq.com/nov-2-2021-elections
According to this[0] New Jersey State Senate District 3 has an eligible population of around 176,344 (74.9% of total) in 2010. So roughly a 35.7% turnout (with a lot of assumptions and bad data). I wish turnout was higher just so candidates were more representative no matter who ultimately won. But realistically when a single person represents over 150K citizens, it is hard to call it very representative regardless.…
That's misleading. It's the 158,476 registered voters that matter. Also has a very large unaffiliated voter base of 57,808 (36.5%).
> The district had 158,476 registered voters as of July 1, 2021, of whom 57,808 (36.5%) were registered as unaffiliated, 57,660 (36.4%) were registered as Democrats, 40,620 (25.6%) were registered as Republicans, and 2,388 (1.5%) were registered to other parties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_3rd_legislative...