elections 2020 and also february 2021 now

[palmer eldritch]

2019....That's all folks---

The 2020 downticket bullshit zone

2020 Senate



2020 GOVS

[palmer eldritch]

finally, a thread to talk about who is going to beat Cory Gardner

[big zorb]

joni ernst gonna get got

[palmer eldritch]

the LA gov race should be getting underway pretty soon, as Kennedy is going to make an announcement about whether or not he'll run on Monday. the only statewide elected Democrat in MS is running for the open gov seat. and Bevin in KY is really not the most popular dude. together with the VA state legislature, it will be a unusually active off year

[shark week]

do gerrymander lawsuits go in this thread?

[palmer eldritch]

yeah definitely. I can barely keep up with the state of those things.

[tgk]

Weird to think that we could go from having no chambers in 2016 to getting them all back in 2020. Not even that much of a stretch really.

[palmer eldritch]

I'm not sure what's happening at the moment in NC. there was an order to redraw the Congressional district lines before the election, but no one on either side of the lawsuit wanted that, so the lines are in place but they're considered harmful enough by the district court that redrawing and holding special elections before 2020 can't be ruled out (but the appeals usually take so long on these things, idk)

[Ted Pikul]

Will Cynthia Nixon primary Schumer

edit: apparently not

[tgk]

2020 Senate

looks a hell of a lot better than our 2018 map

[tgk]

Will Cynthia Nixon primary Schumer

edit: apparently not

AOC

[delgriffith]

Cynthia will run for mayor in 2021 is my guess.

Placeholder post.

[Ted Pikul]

Will Cynthia Nixon primary Schumer

edit: apparently not

AOC

seems like she's headed for house leadership eventually tho

[tgk]

If we need 3 senate flips to get 50/50 (with D vp as tiebreak) most likely states to flip seems CO, AZ, and then Maine and Iowa? I guess we need to prepare for a dougie jones loss too so i guess we'll need another flip as well

[palmer eldritch]

your path to having control of the senate to me seems like:

win AZ, CO, NC, ME, lose AL, win presidency. pretty tough but at least it's mostly a map for offense.

[tgk]

At this point i feel like Iowa is bluer that NC

[big zorb]

joni ernst is 100% getting the boot

[hyperbole man]

def feel like we can knock off bevin

[manierisme]

its a misnomer to say that iowa is bluer or redder than anywhere imo, it's just uniquely swingy

like it had the only county in the us that obama won by 20+ in 2012 and trump won by 20+

[delgriffith]

joni ernst is 100% getting the boot

And that's the tea, sis.

[big zorb]

its a misnomer to say that iowa is bluer or redder than anywhere imo, it's just uniquely swingy

like it had the only county in the us that obama won by 20+ in 2012 and trump won by 20+

i posted this elsewhere but a lot of iowans earnestly believe the best government is netted by having one term of democrats, then one term of republicans, and repeat

[palmer eldritch]

def feel like we can knock off bevin

he had a 30/55 approval rating in the Morning Consult October gov ratings so, it seems plausible

[alaska]

Man

[palmer eldritch]

Iowa had decent results for 2018 congress but Reynolds held on and the democrats couldn't flip the state legislature despite a D+8.7 national environment. I'm not optimistic about its future.

[palmer eldritch]

Democrats actually lost 3 Iowa state senate seats in 2018!

[big zorb]

Iowa had decent results for 2018 congress but Reynolds held on and the democrats couldn't flip the state legislature despite a D+8.7 national environment. I'm not optimistic about its future.

i think there are good things happening here, honestly, but things are gonna be fucked at the state level w/r/t the state house because the only people who live in those rural districts are old white people who feel they've been abandoned by the world and vote purely out of spite

interestingly a dude i knew at the u of i in 2008 won one of two seats that ensured republicans control the house there. he is a libertarian douchebag.

[joe]

god relying on NC to get senate control seems like quite the death wish

[big zorb]

grassley is 85, too. dude might step down before 2022.

[shark week]

god relying on NC to get senate control seems like quite the death wish

it's gonna take a big upset somewhere

maybe Bullock taking out Daines in Montana or fielding a star candidate to beat Perdue in Georgia

[alaska]

man it's so sick that my basic human rights are staked on a psychotically broken board game