2026 Midterm Elections

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RockyMtnHoo said:
There needs to be some sort of failsafe in place for a state to recall an elected official if they do a total 180 after getting into office. Can’t imagine many who voted for (D) Fetterman are happy with how their state is being represented right now. I know it’s a crazy concept but elected officials represent their constituents…not themselves.
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I was just thinking of something that is related to your comment. Another play by Fetterman, and something he or others could do if they were subject to a recall is simply offer his vote up for sale on every vote rather than formally change parties.
 
I really doubt Fetterman changes parties. He's Joe Manchin. Not Arlen Specter (in reverse). Either way he will be serving one term in the Senate.
 
rodoheel said:
Platner will get plenty of DNC money as the party tries to flip an incredibly important Senate seat
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Schumer says that Sherrod Brown will be getting 79 million because Ohio is one of four top priority Senate races. It would be interesting to know the other states he has prioritized.

NC ?
Alaska ?
Maine ?
Texas ?
Michigan ?
Georgia ?
New Hampshire ?
Iowa ?
Nebraska ?
Kansas ?
 
heelinhell said:
Schumer says that Sherrod Brown will be getting 79 million because Ohio is one of four top priority Senate races. It would be interesting to know the other states he has prioritized.

NC ?
Alaska ?
Maine ?
Texas ?
Michigan ?
Georgia ?
New Hampshire ?
Iowa ?
Nebraska ?
Kansas ?
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Maine, NC, Ohio and Alaska would be my guess. Look, I think you're pearl clutching here. Everyone will get all the money they need. Maybe not all the money they want, but nobody ever gets that.

One way to know that Platner will get his $$ is that $$ goes way further in Maine than in, say, Texas. Talarico might want $100M. Maybe instead he gets $85M and Platner gets $15M. I mean, I don't know the exact numbers but the reason why NC is expected to gobble up more cash is that it's just more expensive to run statewide in a bigger state. I suspect that NC will not set a record, though, as I think the parties will not really be contesting the seat after Labor Day. Coop takes it running away.
 
mynameisbond said:
Gerrymandering is an abhorrent practice. I had to vote in favor of it here in VA in response to what Pubs were doing in TX and elsewhere. But it still left a bitter taste in my mouth.
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I would say abhorrent is not strong enough. It is, in its purest form, the means by which a true democracy becomes a mere electoral democracy, where elections happen but nothing changes.

That's especially true if we redistrict after every cycle.

Rucho v Common Cause is another one of those "worst opinions of all time" authored by this court, and it doesn't get enough attention because it's not Trump v. US, but it makes very little sense and is a radical departure from how the Supreme Court usually sets precedent. Suffice it to say, Roberts' position that "we can't ban gerrymandering because we can't define the line between enough and too much" was not followed in situations like, "gun regs are only constitutional when consistent with history and tradition, whatever that means" or "the president can be liable for unofficial acts, whatever those are."

As Kagan put it in her dissent, maybe she can't define precisely what is too much in all circumstances. But she can see that the facts of the case presented "too much" and issuing that holding is exactly how we have been deciding cases in our legal tradition for hundreds of years. It's also what Republicans usually claim to be doing.
 
mynameisbond said:
Gerrymandering is an abhorrent practice. I had to vote in favor of it here in VA in response to what Pubs were doing in TX and elsewhere. But it still left a bitter taste in my mouth.
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There should be a law against it. How about all district lines HAVE to be drawn latitudinally and longitudinally? No snake or Rorschach test lines allowed.
 
UNCMSinLS said:
There should be a law against it. How about all district lines HAVE to be drawn latitudinally and longitudinally? No snake or Rorschach test lines allowed.
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That won't come close to working.

I agree there should be a law. so do most people. What that law should look like is complicated. There are a lot of factors involved. For one thing, all the districts have to have the same population and that will generally be impossible with square districts.

There are experts who have proposed methods of addressing the problem. I can give you a preview of those methods, keeping in mind that I am also not an expert in this field so my understanding of the issue is less than 100%. If you want. It's probably not worth it. I would think "there should be a law against it" is as deep as most people need to go for our purposes.
 
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