2023 Elections

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Whatever happened to Rick Santorum?

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NYT has called Virginia Senate for Dems with two still in play, looking real good for the House. 48 to Dems, 41 to Republicans with six more leaning Democratic (52 needed).

FU Youngkin.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ature.html

CNN

Virginia State Senate, 40 seats
Needed to control: 21
21 Democrats - Winner winner chicken dinner
16 Republicans

Virginia House of Delegates
Needed to control: 51
50 Democrats - at least a tie
43 Republicans

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Virginia House of Delegates
Needed to control: 51
50 Democrats - at least a tie
43 Republicans

NYT just gave the 51st to Dems to 42 Republican. It's a flip.

One too close to call and two <2% Republican lead. The rest looks Republican.

[O Really]

Mississippi guy didn't do enough with the Elvis connection. He could have made the campaign more fun for everybody. Fake Elvi assistants, free weddings with an Elvis, shuffle dancers at campaign events...

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Mississippi guy didn't do enough with the Elvis connection. He could have made the campaign more fun for everybody. Fake Elvi assistants, free weddings with an Elvis, shuffle dancers at campaign events...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQrlBIMTzIM

Mississippi Rs could run electronic raves with Ecstasy and still get elected.

Origins, according to Wiki:

The Melbourne shuffle is a rave dance that developed in the 1980s. Typically performed to electronic music, the dance originated in the Melbourne rave scene and was popular in the late 1980s and 1990s. The dance moves involve a fast heel-and-toe movement or T-step, combined with a variation of the running man coupled with a matching arm action. The dance is improvised and involves "repeatedly shuffling your feet inwards, then outwards, while thrusting your arms up and down, or side to side, in time with the beat". Other moves can be incorporated including 360-degree spins and jumps and slides....

In 2009, the German hard dance group Scooter featured dancers Pae (Missaghi Peyman) and Sarah Miatt performing the Melbourne shuffle on the streets of Melbourne (Australia) in the music video of their single J'adore Hardcore....

Scooter - J'adore Hardcore (Official Video HD)

Who knew?

Supposedly one of the greats


Shuffle Dance Girl - Elena Cruz

Excellent, but techno drives me batty without the right drugs on board. This illustrates how shuffle evolved from techno, though:


The Melbourne shuffle from the original master tape

Backstory at the link. Pre-TikTok viral dance.

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Mississippi re-elected Thad after he talked about the gun he’d had with certain farm animals.

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CNN

Virginia State Senate, 40 seats
Needed to control: 21
21 Democrats - Winner winner chicken dinner
16 Republicans
Now 21-17

Virginia House of Delegates
Needed to control: 51
50 Democrats - at least a tie
43 Republicans
Now 51-44

NYT just gave the 51st to Dems to 42 Republican. It's a flip.

One too close to call and two <2% Republican lead. The rest looks Republican.

Phew.

Democrats win in several states on abortion rights and other highlights from Tuesday's elections


Election 2023 Ohio Abortion
Issue 1 supporters celebrate as Rhiannon Carnes, executive director, Ohio Women's Alliance, speaks at a watch party, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Columbus Ohio. Ohio voters have approved a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. The outcome of Tuesday’s intense, off-year election was the latest blow for abortion opponents.

... Abortion rights supporters won an Ohio ballot measure and the Democratic governor of beet-red Kentucky held onto his office by campaigning on reproductive rights and painting his opponent as extremist. A Democrat won an open seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after campaigning on his pledge to uphold abortion rights. And Democrats took full control of the Virginia statehouse, blocking Republicans from being able to pass new abortion restrictions and delivering a defeat to Gov. Glenn Youngkin that may douse any buzz about a late entry into the GOP presidential primary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zr3ZyoBGyw

... Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was reelected in a state that Trump had won by 26 percentage points. Beshear had criticized the abortion views of his Republican challenger, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, in debates and television ads. One Beshear ad featured a woman who miscarried after being raped by her stepfather at age 12 expressing disbelief at Cameron's opposition to abortion in cases of rape and incest....

Youngkin didn’t really have a path forward in the presidential primary — his window to get on the ballot has already closed in some states. Virginia has an unusual single-term limit for governors, making Youngkin’s political future even more of a question.

Whatever he does, he’ll have to explain 2023. And he'll face unified Democratic control of the statehouse for the rest of his term.

Awww, sucks being a chastened lame duck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoyvvEWHodk

... Former Biden White House aide Gabe Amo will become the first Black member of Congress from Rhode Island after winning the special election in that state’s first congressional district.

The son of West African immigrants, Amo emerged from a 12-candidate September primary to succeed retiring Rep. David Cicilline....

And Philadelphia will have its first female mayor after Democrat Cherelle Parker defeated Republican David Oh in the overwhelmingly Democratic city.

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[O Really]

Mississippi re-elected Thad after he talked about the gun he’d had with certain farm animals.

"...gun with animals"?
Is that the same as fat-fingered "fun with animals"?

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Cows With Guns Animation Cartoon - Song by Dana Lyons

If you prefer:

Cows with Guns - Official Claymation

Cows With Guns [HD Animation]

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I’ve been doing much better at proof reading my longer posts, but hell, it was so short there couldn’t be mistakes.

But yep, a gat gingered f can be a g.

During his senate campaign Thad bragged about having fun with animals.

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2023 election results: Historic firsts in Virginia and Rhode Island; Moms for Liberty fails and other important outcomes you may have missed
For the most part, Republican culture war issues failed to resonate

... History made in Virginia

Danica Roem became the first transgender person elected to a state legislature in 2017, when she won a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates. On Tuesday, Roem made history again, prevailing against her Republican opponent, former police officer Bill Woolf, to become the first transgender person elected to the state Senate (in the South)....

Coming to a library near you - State Senator Reading Hour.

Republicans fall short in New Jersey

... This year, Republicans hoped to use cultural issues to win back control of either the state Senate or Assembly. The deepening unpopularity of President Biden and a new corruption scandal involving Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat, seemed to work in their favor.

... Democrats held on to both the upper and lower chamber of the state legislature in Trenton....

GoWhack9Go

School boards show culture war limits

... On Tuesday, candidates supported by Moms for Liberty lost in Bucks County, Pa., and Loudoun County, Va., where suburban voting can sometimes point to developing national trends. Candidates affiliated with the extremist organization also fared poorly in Iowa, where three school boards in suburban Des Moines flipped to Democratic control....

Rather than bizarre wingnuttery and vile bigotry maybe Moms for "Liberty" should try reading to kids.

Gotta feel optimistic heading into 2024.

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CNN

Virginia State Senate, 40 seats
Needed to control: 21
21 Democrats - Winner winner chicken dinner
16 Republicans
Now 21-17
21-19 Final

Virginia House of Delegates
Needed to control: 51
50 Democrats - at least a tie
43 Republicans
Now 51-44
51-45 so far.

Cynical Vrede too: Two Manchins away from deadlock

NYT just gave the 51st to Dems to 42 Republican. It's a flip.

One too close to call and two <2% Republican lead. The rest looks Republican.

Phew.

Also, one of the Central Park 5 was elected to the NY City Council. FU Dolt .45 and GoYusef SalaamGo!

Abortion rights are now 7-0 at the state level since Dobbs, including red and purple states.

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It could have easily been 22-48 in the Virginia State Senate. However, the Dem literal sexy nurse lost by less than a thousand votes, 51-48. Too bad, but good on the likely lecherous 16,912 that stuck with Gibson O Susanna!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia-dem ... 20545.html
https://enr.elections.virginia.gov/resu ... 2b2642af30

The VA House is still 51-45 Dem, or CNN has stopped updating.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2023

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The VA House is still 51-45 Dem, or CNN has stopped updating.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2023

51-48 with one not called.

Taylor*incumbent Rep.Republican 50.4%
Adams Dem.Democrat 49.6%

Guess CNN got lazy.

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The VA House is still 51-45 Dem, or CNN has stopped updating.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2023

51-48 with one not called.

Taylor* incumbent Rep.Republican 50.4%
Adams Dem.Democrat 49.6%

Guess CNN got lazy.

Elections have consequences.

Note:

Opps, I put this in 2024 Elections by mistake.

It ain't yo' daddy's Virginia no more.

Newly empowered Virginia Democrats nominate the state's first Black House speaker, Don Scott