Wow, 72.6% is a landslide!
Is he even a little bit leftist or is he another two-faced, neoliberal Democrat that will push the populace even further right when he inevitably screws them over?
Harris won the district by 5%. It’s shifted 42% further blue in just 11 months.
While this is really hopeful news, be careful not to extrapolate too far. Turnout for a special election is not equal to turn out for a general or presidential election.
With 35 months remaining until the presidential election, it looks like we should see a about a 133% shift further blue.
Nice. But also this wasn’t even a close race. Damn.
The districting system is a flawed form of democracy. It can be manipulated, and a minority of voters can get a majority representation.
I can understand the origin of it, but not to let it continue when the flawed democracy of it is well understood.Agreed. Given what computers can do districting should be something done automatically with minimal human intervention. Plug data in and the computer figures out the optimal grid and suggests best places for polling centers for each district. No funny spaghetti monster districts.
That solves nothing. Humans are still the once’s feeding the criteria to the computer so it will just do whatever they tell it to.
