During President Obama’s terms in office Democrats lost their shirts, pants undrewear and sock’s of elective offices country wide….
They are slowly….
But solidly, getting their clothes back….
Piece by piece
Democratic candidate Lauren Arthur won a special election for a formerly GOP-held Missouri state Senate seat Tuesday night by a 20-point margin.
That’s the 42nd state legislative seat Democrats have flipped since Donald Trump’s inauguration, and though that only slightly reverses Democrats’ massive down-ballot losses during the Obama administration, it’s a pretty solid downpayment considering that few seats have been up so far.
Both Donald Trump and Mitt Romney won this seat by a four-point margin, so the Democratic victory amounts to a 24-point improvement on their presidential candidates’ performances in 2016 and 2012.
Democrats are cleaning up in special elections
According to an extremely useful comprehensive spreadsheet compiled by Daily Kos, across 70 special elections in 2017, Democrats ran 10 points ahead of Clinton and 7 points ahead of Obama’s 2012 results. Those numbers have accelerated into 2018. Across about 50 races, Democrats are running 13 points ahead of Clinton.
Historically speaking, special election results usually are somewhat predictive of midtermgeneral election outcomes, and Democrats have generally done somewhat better in these actual electoral contests than their generic ballot polling lead would suggest…..
Horrible imagery. I do not want to think of any of you naked. Put your damn clothes on.
Well, CG, it was 150 years ago that that hero of conservatives (and especially Jewish conservatives), Benjamin Disraeli, was accused of stealing the Liberals’ clothes while they were bathing by leaping ahead of them to pass the Second Reform Act of 1867 and thereby greatly increase the number of eligible British voters, especially among the respectable upper working classes. (Cf. the franchise-shrinking antics of Katherine Harris, Ken Blackwell, Kris Kobach, et al.)
And if the Tories steal all our clothes, how can we put them back on ?