nice summation of yesterday's election victories [View all]

from Reddit contributors

-California passed Prop 50 by roughly 30%, allowing them to redistrict with the very express intent that it's for combating Trump's very public demands that Texas do the same thing to get him more seats in congress.

-Colorado voted to raise taxes on people making more than $300k per year to pay for all school meals in the state, by a 15% margin.

-Maine voted by 26% to protect absentee voting, and voted by roughly 24% to let the courts stop people from purchasing guns if the police and/or family/friends can show that the person is a danger to themselves or others.

-New Jersey voted in a democratic governor by a 13% margin.

-NYC voted Zohran Mamdani for mayor by roughly 9%, including just above 50% of the total vote (meaning the rest of the candidates could have dropped out and rallied behind Cuomo and it still wouldn't have mattered). He was polling at 2% in January, and managed to build his campaign to the point that he smacked the absolute shit out of known sex-pest and billionaire sympathizer Andrew Cuomo in the primaries. He is the first mayoral candidate since 1969 to recieve more than 1 million votes, and did it in spite of the democrats largely not supporting him (Schumer still hasn't endorsed him, and is in fact now refusing to say who he voted for. Hopefully we primary his bitch ass next year), as well as Cuomo being the establishment choice with the backing of a solid fistfull of billionaires and the endorsement of Trump, Elon, Stephen Miller, and George Santos.

-Pennsylvania voted to keep all three democratic state supreme court judges that were on the ballot, and all three of them by roughly 20%. This keeps a democratic majority on their state bench.

-Cincinnati reelected their mayor, who was running against JD Vance's half brother. He lost by a comedic 60%.

-Virginia is the big winner tonight. 11 seats in their state house flipped blue, giving the democrats a supermajority. They flipped the Attorney General to blue by almost 7%, flipped the Lieutenant Governor blue by 11%, flipped the Governor to blue by a whopping 15% against an absolutely vile incumbent, and every single district shifted blue, some by some pretty exceptional amounts.

Somewhat niche, but Georgia also voted for 2 Democrats on the Public Power Commission. A normally fairly hidden election that had surprising turnout.

Michigan went well too. Elected the first woman as mayor in Detroit

I live in a very conservative county in Colorado. There was a school board election pitting a group of former teachers and educators (labeled as progressives)against a group of “concerned parents” with no experience and a platform of keeping boys out of girls sports even though there hasn’t been a single trans kid in our community trying to compete in girls sports.

The conservatives are losing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ooslpc/reddit_how_are_we_feeling_about_tonights_election/