I swear these days I try like mad to avoid post Dem win election coverage bc these days a raft of progressives win... and the DNC will just trout out the fucking Hillary era Dems to claim the wins as a mandate for the most centrist voices in the party.
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This is about the be the lease serious US election thread.
But combing through the results there's a lot of confirmed and shifts in US political power...
But like... by turn out... this shit wasn't a "Blue wave"... BLACK voters turned out in high numbers and voted consistently af for PROGRESSIVES when available and democrats in droves.
One of the clearest signals right now is a re-asserertion of the importance of the Black vote in America.
Now go tell that to MAGA so they croak on the news
Georgia is notable for lifting the number of Black voters who had skipped the previous election but turned out this year.
Meanwhile more white GA voters than usual simply didn't vote at all.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/surprising-turnout-rates-2026-midterms
Meanwhile Hispanics had an outlier year many hope will stick. HIGH voter turnour and some of the least support for conservatives we've seen in KEY races.
However.... ummm its SHOCKING to ppl like me to see OVER 40% of Latino men are STILL voting for conservatives.
Fair bit of online debate this week about why and how.
Imo the big question is will the Latino step left this cycle stick when Trump and ICE aren't in the headlines?
https://www.as-coa.org/articles/how-latinos-voted-2026-us-midterm-elections
Sadly we have a lot of realtime statistical evidence for one of the US' oldest political pattern remaining fully at play... and clearly 40% of Latino men and nearly a 3rd of Latino women are hoping for the pattern to hold as their solution to rising fascism.
Hispanic conservatives aside... Texas still went to the left in a much larger way due to the hispanics who switched sides and the massive Black voter base turnout.
And I gotta say a Texas speaker of the house that looks and sounds like my grandma is a pretty good outcome.
I hope the old lady gives them chuds hell just by existing!
A really interesting win is Scott Colom in Mississippi who ended up winning his race.
Earlier this week he was ALREADY complaining about DNC leadership choices.
He grew up with a family of lawyers and polticians and I think he's got some of the smartest approaches to widening the democrats big tent so it STICKs in the South.
I've been reviewing Scott Colom's ad campaign today and I'm VERY impressed with his range. He really nails both high end high production ads
Meanwhile for every high end, high production ad Scott Colom did several EXTREMELY low budget down to earth ads.
I really don't agree with the guy on every issue but HE's absolutely right about the DNC's current leadership being insanely out of touch and unable to speak the people's language.
He clearly ran a campaign SERIOUS campaign.
We NEED to study this man's approach, its a serious winning strategy for the south.
Why is this race such an interesting one to watch?
Scott managed to flipped a key conservative Mississippi district where people are so fucking racist they named their county in honor of the KKKs first grand wizard.
Anyways, I'm gonna stop praising Senator Colom and posting his ads but god all of his ads feel like skits my cousins in the south made.
Just stupidly down to earth and asking the sorts of questions that even MAGA voters genuinely might ask.
The last detail about Colom's race I dig into is that Biden initially nominated him for a Federal Judgeship but Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked his confirmation.
Had she confirmed him... she wouldn't have had to take him on in this race at all.
But instead Colom didn't back down and he ran for Hyde's seat instead.
Winning by razor thin margins.
Across the south something is VERY clear... tons of these races in the South were shamefully underfunded YET they have been insanely CLOSE races especially with Black politicians.
The story of Jamie Davis' campaign in Baton Rouge nearly winning on $0.06 spent per won vote against a Trump endorsed opponent who spent $9 a vote!
The DNC needs to support Southern races!
https://ballotpedia.org/Jamie_Davis_(Louisiana)
#JamieDavis #TheSouth #TheBlackVote #BlackMastodon #Louisiana #GaryChambers #BatonRouge #DNC
I could talk all day about Black voter turnout but to understand what -actually- is propelling the Democrat rise right now you also have to pay attention rural white voters in majority white districts.
Places like North Carolina's 11th district it easy to see how candidates like Jamie Ager won.
A focus on TRUE working class Southern politics.
- FEMA funding
- Cheaper health care
- Lowering inflation
- Ending Trump corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/11/03/us/elections/results-north-carolina-us-house-11.html
Now don't get me wrong the US left & DNC tea leaves readers like me will debate who gets credit for these "blue" wins until the heat death of the universe.
But one thing is clear Trump and the Republicans lost BIGLY. They have no one to blame but themselves
And we're all laughing at MAGA for putting their electoral future in Trump's hands.
Only time will tell how that shit stain on American history will react (probably bombing Iran more) but for now this week is funny af
So if you've been listening closely to each of the politicians who pulled of BIG upsets above you might have noticed something similar between them.
- FULL fledged support for Medicare for All
- Ending military support to Israel
Those seem to be the TWO top election issues lately and the comedians(above) and entertainers especially like Charlamagne tha God have been harping on both of these issues for years now and has been constantly underscoring how the DNC leaders are in the way.
Now while the critiques of Chuck and Hakkim is very on time it's clear the Zionist in the DNC are still hoping to retain control of the party.
Here's everyone's favorite rising Democratic Zionist, Elissa Slotkin, who appears to be pretty stoked about being asked if her Zionist ass should be put in power.
While she does have a great question about the Dem's 100 day plan no real reform on the Israel issue will be coming from Slotkin.
So don't fall for it.
@nullagent They always do that. The role of centrist "leftists" is to prevent a mass movement. The Clintons are good at it, which is why they have been rewarded with wealth. See also Tony Blair in the UK and Felipe Gonzalez in Spain
A great clip from Marc Lamont Hill on the latest election news.
#MarcLamontHill #Midterms2026 #BlackMastodon