Socialist Candidates are winning around the country at local level election.is it a sign for future?

[Joel thakkar]

Won

1) Kshama Sawant - Won Seattle City election council Seat
Party : Socialist Alternative
Her opponent was democratic party backed candidate. He lost by more than 2000 votes. She got 50.3% vote - A clear majority.

Giving Tough Fight

2) Alondra cano - Won the Minneapolis City council seat - Although she is a democratic backed candidate...she won by just 229 votes. Her opponent was Ty moore - Socialist Alternative candidate. Alondra cano is also very good candidate but Ty moore is just more leftist candidate.

State Level

We all know that Bernie sanders is a self pro-claimed socialist and is in senate. I am assuming that Vermont local elections also elect socialist-view type candidates.

Do you think that it is a sign for something big in the future? I mean, it is just city election (or 1 state vermont) where socialist can compete and win..but a good campaign can win them big in the further cities and states?

Obviously, i would like them to win in hard-core blue states because it will make sure that they don't cut liberal votes to indirectly help republican candidate win the seat. Also they can easily win votes in hard-core blue states rather than swing states.

[Skidmore]

1. Ever hear the saying that

"One swalllow does not a summer make"? Not enough for a trend quite yet.

[sendero]

2. There are small signs...

... here and there that after 6 years of economic deprivation with no credible action by government to solve the problem they created through deregulation, that people are starting to not believe in the right wing economic message.

I expect a slow but marked move to the left as the nostrums provided by one side fail to deliver, just as the failure of the other side to deliver put the current thinking in power.

And the pendulum swings again.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. There does seem to be a trend toward left-alternatives, at least in the blue states.

Whether they identify publicly as "socialist" or not.

DeBlasio's 70% victory here is part of that.

This recession-without-end and a growing awareness of the excesses... foreign and domestic... of our rulers *seems* to have awakened a lot of people.

For whatever reason... it appears that people are voting more intelligently.