Yep. As soon as I saw that Stein was veto-proof by a single vote in one house of the legislature I knew the GOP high command in Raleigh would be plotting how to get one Democrat to switch. Hopefully Tim Moore won't sleep with another Democrat to convince them to change, but I wouldn't put anything past these guys. I certainly hope that NC Democrats have wised up and are keeping their eyes and ears open to any rumors of shenanigans going on.
Tim Moore won’t be in the upcoming GA.then will be heading to Washington as the representative for Mc’s 14th US Congressional District (sort of Jeff Jackson’s current district but totally got redrawn so a democrat couldn’t win it).
How in the heck did I miss that
Probably the dearth of major political news overall this year made you lose track?
Fair enough, thanks. But do you think it’s fair to say they won the ones that are a little less political in nature? I would assume the Auditor or Agriculture guys aren’t people the Dems fear in the same way they feared some of the others in the higher profile races.Yes, about half of them.
Also won all the judicial races, unfortunately.Yes, about half of them.
Yes, I think it is fair to say that the Dems won the key political positions and the Pubs the less visible administrative posts. I was a little surprised Hunt won, TBH — she seemed to run a nearly invisible campaign.
If the GOP hadn't packed the federal judiciary and Supreme Court with Trumpers then that might have been a way to eliminate the gerrymandering, but of course that's not possible now. And one of the reasons (among several) that they have worked so hard to pack the federal judiciary since Dubya got elected in 2000 was for precisely this purpose - to allow the most extreme gerrymandering and voter restrictions to remain in place. IMO, the only way that NC Democrats will ever again win a majority of the state legislature will be to retake control of the NC Supreme Court. And given that the GOP will have a 6-1 majority starting in January that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. It's going to take a long time for NC Democrats to win back control of the NC Supreme Court, much less the state legislature. The ugly truth is that the NC GOP will almost certainly retain control of the state legislature into the foreseeable future, maybe right through the 2030s.
I was looking at the composition of the Court and 2028 is the earliest Dems can regain the majority. The only seat up for grabs in 2026 is the lone Dem on the court (Anita Earls) so she must defend her seat, and then we have to flip all three Pub seats up for reelection in 2028 to gain a 4-3 majority. If Trump does indeed execute the terrible agenda he has promised, the political climate over the next four years could be conducive to making this possible.
Wow, I didn't think she had a chance. I hope this doesn't turn out like the 2020 NC Chief Justice race. Beasley and her GOP opponent were so close they switched leads a few times, but at the end her opponent won by something like 400 votes out of millions cast.
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