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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 12, 2024 06:18pm |
because of an increase in voters who may not necessarily be paying much attention to downballot races that are voting more off of names who may be more inclined to vote for women for an office like board of education.. it's very much a theory that probably can't be proven without trying to read voters minds
so it's not like the "Cook County voters voting for Irish surnames for low name ID spots" theory
this election had 34% of registered voters voting, compared to a race 2 years ago where the turnout for a school board race was 14%. 34% is pretty high for an April municipal election around here
on the other hand, the school board candidates made up most of the signage in yards so it's not like the candidates were complete unknowns until people voted
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 12, 2024 04:20pm |
yeah, transparency in school board decisions was a topic in this election
the 7th place candidate wasn't on either squad, but I think he got the whole "being banned from school property" thing cleared up because they dropped the charges over speaking out of turn at a school board meeting
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 11, 2024 01:21pm |
a Republican primary where two of the candidates were statewide Independent candidates in 2022 (Becker and Mund)
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 09, 2024 03:51pm |
part 1 of putting 1990s Texas House districts on here: putting the districts and trying to figure out which ones to set to 1993-1995, 1993-1997, 1993-1999, or 1993-2003. Fortunately the bills they had to pass to change district lines (both the ones they changed willingly and the ones that were changed by courts) list which districts were changed.
Part 2 involved figuring out that they didn't change the Dallas/Houston districts until the map used in 1996 and that those wild looking districts lasted 2 cycles
Part 3 involved emailing ARP because the 1998 map wasn't extracting from a Zip file (they quickly fixed it so all thanks to them on that)
So the 1992 and 1994 maps are in, and then it's about putting in the districts that changed in 1996/98 to actually have legislative maps from Texas so you can set the date back and look at a mostly blue Texas.
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 07, 2024 04:01pm |
I did find 1990s Texas shapefiles for the state house/senate on the American Redistricting Project website (thearp.org) and I added the TX State Senate districts.
The state house districts might be a little more of a challenge since it's 4 maps for 5 cycles, 150 districts, and figuring out which ones were the same for multiple maps.
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 06, 2024 05:12pm |
amazing career path for Ashby from "guy who ran a Republican primary challenge to George W. Bush" to "appointed city counciloor" to "lost re-election to a Libertarian"
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 06, 2024 02:33pm |
the Johnson vote might split and let a Libertarian though
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 05, 2024 02:52pm |
fixed it (somehow the NH 1824-1827 county map was connected to Massachusetts counties instead of NH counties)
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
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| April 03, 2024 06:16pm |
found a reference to "Caleb W. Allis" running for Comptroller in 1879 and changed it over
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| April 02, 2024 06:48pm |
why yes, you can see the ski resort counties in this map
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 31, 2024 04:27pm |
he has the hair of someone who writes science fiction which is really about the evils of abortion
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
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| March 29, 2024 07:32pm |
(to help a candidate not in the primary for the full term)
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 24, 2024 12:48am |
I read one tweet claiming several candidates accidentally filed for this office
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 21, 2024 03:41pm |
it was a good move for us to keep an eye on Spring Valley politics for many years
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 18, 2024 02:11pm |
ctrl+shift+R on Chrome is your friend sometimes
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 15, 2024 07:31pm |
there were contested county primaries in Marengo that were blowouts (Circuit Clerk candidate wins 72-28, County Commission candidate wins 63-15-14), so it's probably not non-Dems crossing over to vote in a Dem primary
almost 600 voters voted in a Dem Circuit Clerk primary in Marengo who didn't vote for President
that scenario is probably *some* of the situation with RGV counties in Texas, but those counties have always had active Dem primaries for county offices and the percentages weren't outliers then
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 15, 2024 01:28pm |
Kinda interestingly random in regards to where Biden beat his statewide average.
Also, despite some of the claims about Trump %s with AA voters, it really doesn't show up in a place like this primary, or at least it doesn't show up as much as some of the South Texas primary results can back up some of those claims.
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 14, 2024 01:30pm |
guessing that's one reason why they have different filing deadlines for federal and state office
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 13, 2024 06:38pm |
okay I think I made it through the assortment of convention dates to enter Utah races (there's county conventions for some races, some are at the state convention, and there'll be primaries for some of them and probably some random state legislators getting bounced for someone who believes crazy things)
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 07, 2024 01:40am |
added the 2024 state legislative races (thanks, Ohio Secretary of State's office for having the election night site up 2 weeks early since they don't publish a candidate list)
also added the new State Senate/House maps
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 06, 2024 12:41am |
in which one the Cotham party switch costs her mother a primary
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 03, 2024 04:25pm |
Denver: "give us margarine or give us death"
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5212.23 points)
| March 01, 2024 12:58pm |
I've always just copied and pasted the images into Irfanview, adjusted to 150x200ish and saved them as jpgs.
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