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The battle for control of the Virginia legislature is still hanging in the balance, but the first round of returns from Tuesday’s off-year elections delivered one clear message: abortion rights are popular, no matter when or where they are on the ballot.

Good News. Kentucky re-elected Democratic governor. Virginia flipped house of delegates to Democrats, gaining complete control of state legislature.

Kentucky shows is that even in red states, Democrats have the numbers. This shows how critical showing up and voting is.

GOP/Republicans bad for climate change. They deny it, say it isn’t humans, etc. Democrats at least acknowledge we need to do something.

For those outside the US, we have first past the post voting, which inevitably leads to two political parties.

State governments hold a lot of power. They are almost completely over sovereign with certain restrictions and reservations of power by our federal government.

GOP (aka Republicans) = Right to far right. I.e. libertarian, fascist, conservative, Christian nationalist.

Democrat = center right to far left. I.e. conservative, progressive, socialist, neoliberal

Democrats have greater numbers by a good margin, but have lower voter turnout and are disenfranchised electorial due to gerrymandering.

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    1 年前

    I don’t think it has much to do with him. News organizations have to fill the time with something. They are always pondering these potential associations.

    I bet Trump earned the democrats more votes this year than Biden did. “Not a Republican” can carry a lot of weight when we’re talking about biohazardous dumpster fires versus regular politicians.

    • Jaderick@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 年前

      You’re right in that his only winning strategy is that he’s not Trump which is a bleak perspective on our political landscape. I’m not inspired to vote for someone, I’m chored with voting against someone else which is mega lame.

      Big media outlets are profit driven and I think them trying to fill that time with connections to Biden hurt all of us in a big picture sense, because the president can make things worse but the executive branch is not where real change comes from. It comes from the legislative branch. Outlets tying these races to the president are driving populist candidates into the zeitgeist, which is horrible.

      • Zink@programming.dev
        2·
        1 年前

        Yeah, though the media has always been bad about trying to attach every random thing to the current President. I guess the simplicity of having a single high-profile name and face to attach to things makes it simpler for the general public.