Democrat who ran heavily on abortion rights, IVF wins Alabama red seat special election

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MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch
MAJOR BREAKING:

Democrat Marilyn Lands has defeated Republican Teddy Powell in a special election for Alabama House District 10 by a whopping 25 points, flipping the district from red to blue.

Lands ran on a platform that emphasized protecting abortion rights and IVF.

Grace Panetta @grace_panetta 2h
BREAKING: Democrat @marilynforAL has defeated Republican Teddy Powell, who just conceded in the special election for Alabama House District 10, a Huntsville-area swing district, by what looks like will be a pretty big margin (district was Trump +1, Doug Jones +5 in 2020)

Democrat who ran heavily on abortion rights, IVF wins Alabama special election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/26/democrats-republicans-abortion-ivf-alabama-election/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. They voted for freedom to make their own health care choices.

Nobody but fascist Republicans wants a fascist government taking intimate control of their body.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. These are just real election results, not headline-worthy polling data certified by the New York Times.

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[sybylla]

14. Curious. These aren't the numbers Ballotpedia has for this district in 2022.

They had it at 51/45/3 as their was a Libertarian on the ballot. Not sure why the discrepancy as I'm not seeing a source to the numbers.
https://ballotpedia.org/Alabama_House_of_Representatives_District_10

Anyway, glad for the win.

[LAS14]

19. Those maps blow me away!!!! nt

[progressoid]

3. Holy shit! She didn't just win. She annihilated him!

[Lunabell]

4. Wow! Congratulations, State Representative Lamb!!

That was a landslide and a portent of things to come for rethuglicans in 2024!!

[betsuni]

5. K&R

[dchill]

6. Napalm in the morning!

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[StarryNite]

7. That's how to do it.

Run on the things that matter to people. Not the stupid conspiracy theories that the right wing nutters go on about.

[Yellowdog-1966]

8. Wow! Some blue in Alabama.

[4lbs]

9. About 25 points. That's close right?

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Imagine if this were reversed?

Imagine a district in deep blue California that Biden won by 8 points in 2020 and that voted for a GOP Rep in 2022 by several points had flipped Red by 25 points. And the candidate who flipped it had ran on one big issue that was directly tied to Biden. This would have kncked the bridge collapse off the top of the fold on national newspapers.

This is a cataclismic wave of change. From Trump +8 in 2020 and GOP +7 in 2022 to Dem +25 in 2024 based on abortion access. The Biden campaign is doing well right now directly tying Trump to ending Roe v Wade and he can't hude from it.

And that Trump +8 was for Madison county, they don't give results by district, but this district omits Huntsville from it so it's certainly more like Trump +15-20. This is a 40-50 point flip from 2020 in facor of Democrats based on abortion.

[yankee87]

11. President Biden is correct

When he told SCOTUS women will be felt at the voting booth.
Vote Blue!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Roe Roe Your boat

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[Talitha]

13. Repugs are going to get an old fashioned ass-whooping in November !

[WarGamer]

15. great win... but 14% turnout... I wish people would vote more consistently.

[W_HAMILTON]

21. Oh, you!

[peggysue2]

16. This win is for . . .

All the Republicans who have said/thought the 'little ladies' would get over the Dobbs' decision and more recently the decision on IVF. Reproductive health care matters to women and the men who care about and respect them.

Even in Alabama!

We're coming for you, Republicans. All of you.

[electric_blue68]

24. Gah! I hate that appellation: "little ladies". 🙄 So demeaning!

[peggysue2]

25. And so deliberate, electric blue

Our time to make them choke on those words!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. A reminder...

[Demovictory9]

18. In that first election after Dodds repubs were telling Dems to

Stop talking about abortion rights.."women dont care" red tsunami was coming..lol

[AdamGG]

20. This is great news, but isn't this extremely low turnout?

Under 6,000 total votes. How many people vote in general elections in this district?

[W_HAMILTON]

22. Uhh, yeah, pretty much every single special election has lower turnout than the general election.

[electric_blue68]

23. Wow! May this be a Nov '24 Harbinger! 👍🤞

[Blue Owl]

26. Hey Alito (and your SCOTUS cohorts) suck on that you misogynist fuck