Dems had some huge wins in ALL of Tuesdays special elections, great looking chart!

[KelleyKramer]

This is VERY encouraging, Dems posted some massive gains all across the country, including +23% in Kentucky!

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What a night! With most of the vote in, Democrats have overperformed in every special elex tonight, ranging from 7% in the NH state House redo election, to 23% in KY!

Add onto that their 9% overperformance in LA on Saturday, and the avg swing from 2020 Prez now sits at ~D+5%!

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[Sky Jewels]

1. We are royally pissed off.

You want to turn women into third-class citizens? Well, you shall pay a heavy price.

[calimary]

15. Damn straight!

They have underestimated the wrong team.

Just like they seem to have consistently underestimated the power and brains and resourcefulness and stamina of women.

Whenever I think a man is getting uppity about his gender’s supposed superiority, I also think “okay, tough-stuff. YOU try pushing a 5-8-pound baby out through THAT little hole. You tell ME who the weaker sex is.”

[Sky Jewels]

19. Yep. My first was a big guy, sunny-side up, stuck in there for 24 hours.

No epidural. It hurt like a mother ... literally!

[Haggard Celine]

2. That is great news!

Makes me feel more comfortable.

[Celerity]

3. Wonderful news from my wonderful Congressman!

[SunSeeker]

4. This is why Republicans want to end Democracy.

They can't win fair elections.

[SuperCoder]

5. Excellent

Cast those m*therf*ckers into the abyss!!!

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Twitter replies:

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[KelleyKramer]

7. Ha Ha! Thanks for that

There are some great zingers in there

Thanks!

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Sometimes the replies are priceless, these were definitely worth checking out...

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

9. excellent

[Phoenix61]

10. Go figure most Americans don't want to be 1950's fascists.

Add to that pissing off a huge group of women is never a good move, politically or otherwise.

[TheRickles]

11. The numbers are a bit confusing.

As I read it, the 2016 and 2020 columns are not totals but are also "margins" (ie, % of vote that went Dem minus % that went Rep). And these are some very, very blue districts, except for NH, which actually flipped R->D.

So the D margin has increased in all of these districts, which is great, though where that final figure of 4.6% (the 2023 average) comes from isn't obvious. All the other margins in the blue column are much higher, ranging from 6.9% to 33.3%. Perhaps I am missing something....

[Peacetrain]

12. That is so good!!.. we got a group of Magas on the right getting in bed with Putin

Good to see people are just not going to put up with it

[FakeNoose]

13. The 3 special elections in PA were for the state House

Also I believe the KY special election was also for the state House. I'm not sure about the others.

[CaptainTruth]

14. Now we need to pull out all the stops in 2024!!!

[Johnny2X2X]

16. There is a blue wave coming

Biden is doing an A+ job and people are starting to notice. The GOP is further out in la la land after they got roundly rejected in 2022 for it.

[Sky Jewels]

20. And young people--especially young women--are PISSED OFF about

- abortion
- guns
- global warming
- being shat on in terms of student debt, unaffordable rent, low-wage jobs, etc.

Meanwhile, the (generally, not all, I know) conservative Silent Gen is dwindling to a very small portion of the voting population. Zoomers + Millennials are overtaking Boomers + Gen X in terms of vote numbers. It's a beautiful thing to see.

(Again, I realize not all Boomers and Gen Xers are conservative...I'm speaking in generalizations here.)

[pandr32]

17. Hopeful news.

Democrats are doing the heavy lifting while the right whines and complains.

[PatSeg]

18. Wow, this is great news

Hopefully we can maintain the momentum through 2024 and if republicans keep riding the crazy train, we probably will.