Throwing the boys a bone: Democrats flip Iowa state Senate seat, breaking GOP supermajority by 6ixStringJack

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Throwing the boys a bone: Democrats flip Iowa state Senate seat, breaking GOP supermajority

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UPDATED: Thursday, August 28, 2025 18:43
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025 11:52 PM

I can't believe with all the clickbait and bullshit you two have in your regular daily diet that you missed this story today... You're slipping.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5471284-drey-victory-breaks-gop-
majority/

Don't worry about it though. Just like I've always said, Democrats have an uncanny ability to win nearly every special race that is ever held, all across the country. I'm not exactly sure how they do it, but the Republicans should figure that out and either follow their lead if what they are doing is on the up and up, or fix the system if it's broken and underhanded illegal actions behind the scenes are what leads to this phenomena.

That seat and the Republican super majority will flip right back to Republican the instant they have their next real election.

Meanwhile, the House Republicans in Iowa are now learning a lesson as they temporarily lose that super-majority status that they took for granted.

They won't be likely to do again for a long time in Iowa.

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Thursday, August 28, 2025 9:06 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

When people don’t vote, Democrats win
Everyone needs to learn the new politics of turnout

By Matthew Yglesias | Aug 28, 2025

https://www.slowboring.com/p/when-people-dont-vote-democrats-win

Back on August 5, there were two special elections for state legislative seats.

Democrats won them both. In Delaware’s House District 20, the Democratic candidate narrowly won a seat that Kamala Harris carried by a 54-45 margin — a poor showing for Democrats, even though they won the seat. The other race was in Senate District 4 in Rhode Island, a 55-44 Harris district. And here, Democrats won by a whopping 83-16 in a massive overperformance.

We can’t learn much from any one special election race, since there are dozens of idiosyncratic factors at work. But special elections in the aggregate do convey some information about the national political climate.

So far in 2025, Democratic candidates in special elections are running 15.5 points ahead of Kamala Harris and 11.1 points ahead of Joe Biden’s (much stronger on average) baseline from 2020.

This is telling us that the national political climate not only favors Democrats, as you would expect for the out-party under an unpopular president, but massively favors them. Slow Boring readers know I’ve been dooming about the upcoming Senate races, but if Dems can actually run nearly 16 points ahead of Harris, then Ohio, Texas, Iowa, Florida, Alaska, and potentially even Kansas are all on the map. And that’s exactly what the party needs to meaningfully contest for a Senate majority, check the MAGA-fication of the federal judiciary, and actually make policy change in 2028.

So is everything fine? Am I totally wrong about the need for ideological adjustments?

Much More at https://www.slowboring.com/p/when-people-dont-vote-democrats-win

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, August 28, 2025 6:43 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
When people don’t vote, Democrats win
Everyone needs to learn the new politics of turnout

This isn't new. This has always been the case.

It's why I laugh when Ted posts an article or video of a Democrat winning a special election like it means something. Democrats win every special election no matter how deep red the state and local government is.

I'm sure it's because all the teachers in school hand out the fliers to the kids and get at least some of their parents to vote for something.

It's like when they lied to the parents here about increasing property taxes "by only $20 per year" right before the house of prices skyrocket under Joe Biden*'s terrible leadership and we all got hammered with a second huge increase. And it turned out that "$20 per year" referendum actually amounted to 1,500% more than they lied to the parents it would be. They put this on an off-year PRIMARY election because they knew it wouldn't fucking fly if they tried it during a Presidential GENERAL.

We need to ban any referendums from being voted on in any election other than Presidential General elections going forward so Democrats can't keep pulling this shit on The People.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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