Posted on 11/17/2018 7:28:13 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Democrat J.D. Ford pulled off a big upset Tuesday, unseating state Sen. Mike Delph, a Republican who has served the district since 2005.
With two-thirds of precincts reporting, Ford held a 57 percent to 43 percent lead over Delph.
“I wanted District 29 to be heard and with our win tonight, they will be,” Ford told fellow Democratic supporters Tuesday night. “Now you have a voice in the Indiana General Assembly.”
Ford is thought to be Indiana’s first openly gay state lawmaker.
“Ladies and gentleman, we just made history and no one can take that from us,” Ford said.
It was a rematch for Ford and Delph, one of the Legislature's most socially conservative Republicans. Four years ago, Delph won with 54.3 percent of the vote to Ford's 45.7 percent.
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I think you’re, at best, exaggerating the importance of this race. The LGBT thing loomed large because the opposing candidate was gay and Delph is SO VOCALLY anti-gay it created a unique dynamic. You can’t extrapolate any national significance from this.
No - they handily won the suburbs - not sure what state you live in but even with all the democrat cheating Indiana remains not only red but holds a super majority in the government.
By choice.
Perhaps you’d like to discuss why Marion county had a vote turnout of 104% of the population in 2008 when it went for Obama?
I remember that too. Marion Co. fraud in 2008 was most blatant I have EVER seen ANYWHERE!
Yet no one ever talked about it.
I still wonder why it subsided after 2008. Why did the fraud not continue, at least not at the same level???
No young liberal suburban white girls.
If there is any concern to be taken it is that Indiana’s fastest growing, richest county, once reliably deep red is now very pale pink. Donnelley received 45% of the vote. In past years he would have been lucky to get 35%. This is happening across the country in suburban, formerly solid red counties and districts. It is a trend we ignore at our own risk.
Trends get investigated. “one offs” don’t.
Those gains have been fair outpaced by the swing toward the GOP everywhere else in the State. The Rats naturally pack themselves into the cities.
The big cities hold the majority of an entire state’s population.
No. For example:
Indiana has nearly 6.7 Million people.
Indianapolis has only 863,002 people.
In no universe is 863K a majority of 6.7 Million.
Declare the election void due to voter fraud, and throw every rat and liberal judge in prison.
We are at war so let’s start acting like warriors.
I noticed Donnelly got a robust 44% in Hamilton. So it’s because of more Blacks/Hispanics?
Young, college-educated imports from other states
So White trash in other words? Lovely.
I wondered if it was part of the general trend against Republicans in suburbs. I also noticed that Marsha Blackburn’s numbers in the Nashville suburban area, in Williamson County (59%) and Rutherford (53%) were pretty unimpressive considering they usual pump up bigger numbers for us; Trump won them with 64% and 60% respectively. And I think this is supposed to Blackburn’s base, too!
Possibly, however, this may have been due to Bredesen’s supposed popularity with upper-income areas. Note all 4 candidates for Governor and Senator were Nashville-based. It might be better to note the results in the Governor’s race where Republican Lee got 65% in Williamson and 58% in Rutherford. I expect in 6 years, Blackburn should improve on her initial numbers.
This only proves that the Dem fraud machine is widespread and in every corner of every county in the nation.
Concern is warranted.
Too many dumbasses here didn't see this coming, didn't think we'd lose the House and poo-poohed all the polls. "Don't believe the polls! They all said Hillary would win!"
Well, looks like the polls were right (as they were in 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008...)
So, yeah, a little CONCERN might be helpful right now seeing how we got our asses kicked.
And we can blame some losses on vote fraud (which is kinda pointless seeing how we're not going to do anything about it) but we can't blame everything on vote fraud. Democrats made some legitimate gains into Trump's territory.
Democrats learned some lessons in 2016, applied what they learned this time around, and seriously upped their game.
At this point, President Trump's re-election is not guaranteed. Not by a long shot. We need to be concerned.
The polls were absolutely HORRIBLE in many of the Senate races.
FOX News 10/27 - 10/30 722 LV 3.5 45 38 5 Donnelly +7
St. Pete Polls 11/3 - 11/4 3088 LV 1.8 50 46 Nelson +4
Emerson 11/1 - 11/3 748 LV 3.7 50 45 Nelson +5
Quinnipiac 10/29 - 11/4 1142 LV 3.5 51 44 Nelson +7
NBC News/Marist 10/30 - 11/1 600 LV 5.2 47 50 McCaskill +3
CNN 10/24 - 10/29 764 LV 4.3 49 45 Blackburn +4
East Tennessee State University 10/22 - 10/29 495 LV 4.4 44 44 Tie
St. Pete Polls 11/3 - 11/4 3088 LV 1.8 50 45 Gillum +5
Emerson 11/1 - 11/3 748 LV 3.7 51 46 Gillum +5
HarrisX 10/29 - 11/4 1400 LV 2.6 49 45 Gillum +4
Quinnipiac 10/29 - 11/4 1142 LV 3.5 50 43 Gillum +7
You don’t pick up 2 seats in a first Midterm if you are “getting your asses kicked.”
You love to be “concerned” and pretend that the sky is falling, but this really was pretty normal for a midterm election.
Reagan lost House AND Senate seats in his first midterm, and then went on to win 525 electoral votes 2 years later.
Trumps approval is actually slightly better than Reagan’s was at this same point in his presidency.
It’s one thing to be prepared to fight. It’s another to concern troll because you want to be eeyore.
Delph led the charge to make it more difficult for illegals to live in Indiana. This made him a target for illegals and those who advocate for illegals (including a lot of anchor babies and former illegals). Funny how the leftists decry Russian influence in US elections but it’s A-OK for illegals living in the US to influence US elections. It’s always OK when a Democrat does it.
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