2025 & 2026 Elections

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Not surprised at all. The opposition party has historically done well in midterm elections since the Second World War, with relatively few exceptions. All these polls showing that people are unhappy with Congressional Democrats doesn't take into account what many here have already said - much of the unhappiness and frustration is coming from Democrats themselves who wish the party leadership was more vigorously opposing Trump, but that certainly doesn't mean that these people are going to vote Republican next year. If they vote they're likely to vote straight ticket Democratic, no matter how unhappy they might be with certain leaders within the party right now. The issue is getting them motivated to vote, but Trump and his fellow pubs seem to be solving that possible issue very nicely all by themselves. And that's not even including the anger of independent voters, as this poll illustrates.
 
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*Obligatory “take this with a huge grain of salt, it’s a long way until next November, this seems like hopium and wishcasting etc. etc. etc.* but this is at least *a* promising data point for now.
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It would be a major upset for the Dems to gain less than 20 seats, imo.
 
In very local election news BJ Barham the lead singer of American Aquarium is running for a seat on the Wendell town council

American Aquarium frontman BJ Barham runs for local office in Wendell MSN
 
Only town in America that is named for someone that bears their middle name.
 
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CFordUNC said:


*Obligatory “take this with a huge grain of salt, it’s a long way until next November, this seems like hopium and wishcasting etc. etc. etc.* but this is at least *a* promising data point for now.
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Interesting and encouraging, but I agree with your caveat at the bottom. Further, while I don't fully understand the numbers and this might be taken into account, I am ASSUMING that the "generic ballot" means that it does not account for Gerrymandered US House of Representatives Districts. I live in a Blue area of Mecklenburg County. Jeff Jackson was my representative in the US House when the districts were un-Gerrymandered for one election - 2022. However, now I am back in a Gerrymandered district where I and people like me are outvoted by folks from Union and Gaston Counties. Primarily, these folks work in Mecklenburg County, but moved to Union and Gaston Counties to free themselves from the oppressive liberal overlords who actually created the jobs that employ them.
 
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Posted on Social Media by a friend (Publicly):
“This isn't as alluring as the Epstein story, but in every NC county today, a new Board of Elections is being sworn in. Pictured here is the newly-sworn board in Buncombe County (which doesn't look representative of our population). The wise old man on the left is Jake Quinn. Up until today, he was the chair of the board. Under his leadership, Buncombe won national acclaim for their ability to run a smooth election in the days following Hurricane Helene. But because we have a Republican led General Assembly, drunk on power, they stripped Jake and all NC counties of their previous democratic leadership who were chairing election boards. They did this to further put their thumb on the scale of democracy to unfairly favor themselves.

Voters didn't vote for this. But we will surely bear the burden of longer lines at polling places, fewer places to vote, and more citizens being turned away from their right to vote. We have to demand more integrity from State legislators.“
 
I have known two folks in Orange County that served for years in Election leadership They were both serious community leaders The one in my neighborhood gave equal amounts of crap to Dems and Pubs if they skirted any rules at all. There was just not any "cheating" going on. Lord knows what kind of Yahoos will be put in charge and what their overlords will instruct them to do
 
mpaer said:
I have known two folks in Orange County that served for years in Election leadership They were both serious community leaders The one in my neighborhood gave equal amounts of crap to Dems and Pubs if they skirted any rules at all. There was just not any "cheating" going on. Lord knows what kind of Yahoos will be put in charge and what their overlords will instruct them to do
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Of one thing I am certain, if any Democrat in the future finds themselves in the position that NC Supreme Court Justice Riggs did in last year's election - they are leading by a tiny percentage of the vote and their Republican opponent won't concede and keeps contesting the vote - then that Democrat will lose any future elections of that nature. The NC GOP will simply throw out enough votes for the Republican to win, and the state courts will confirm it. Virtually any close election will now go to Republicans almost by default.
 
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Of one thing I am certain, if any Democrat in the future finds themselves in the position that NC Supreme Court Justice Riggs did in last year's election - they are leading by a tiny percentage of the vote and their Republican opponent won't concede and keeps contesting the vote - then that Democrat will lose any future elections of that nature. The NC GOP will simply throw out enough votes for the Republican to win, and the state courts will confirm it. Virtually any close election will now go to Republicans almost by default.
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Moral of the story - don't make the election close. Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote (at least while we still have a vote).
 
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