Double Play

Two weeks ago, I wrote here about a state Senate Special Election in Kentucky, for the 37th district.  It didn’t get any national coverage because it was just for a state Senate race.  Also, it was when a very Blue seat which Democrats held by 21 points, so they were expected to win.  What was not expected, though, is that they won the Special Election by 47 points!  A remarkable pick-up of 26 points.

Well, it was no fluke. 

Last night, in the Blue 16th district in Iowa, Democrats duplicated that.

In the 2024 general election, Kamala Harris had won the election in that district by 16 points.  So, winning the Special Election was expected.  What was not expected, though, is that -- well, I have to repeat myself -- they won it by 43 points!  A remarkable pick-up of 27 points!

(And even better, the win kept MAGOPs from having a supermajority in the state Senate.)

As in Kentucky, I have no idea if Independent and even some right-wing voters were so upset with the MAGOPs that they voted for Democrats -- or if MAGOPs were so discouraged by their party that they stayed home.  But ultimately, the reason doesn't matter all that much, because the result is the same.

This is the public responding to the MAGOP party running for election, not about Trump alone who isn't officially on the ballot.  Even if the MAGOP candidates, here and in Kentucky,  are local and not in Washington, they are supporting and enabling the racist, pathological lying, anti-Semitic Trump with dementia just the same, and all he stands for and all his positions without criticizing him, and are tied to him at the hip.  

A very good way to end the year and head into 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmWlNI4Zl2s