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Tuesday, Sept. 12, turned out to be a lousy night for Republicans.
Democrats just flipped one more seat from red to bluethe second pickup of the night and the sixth Democratic pickup this cycle. (Republicans have yet to pick up a seat from Democrats in a contested election.)
Tuesday nights victory in Oklahoma not only brings the total number of Democratic pickups to six, but it brings the number of races in which Democrats have outperformed the partys 2016 presidential results in these same legislative and congressional districts to 26 (out of 35 held since last November.
Democrat Jacob Rosecrants, a teacher with a passion for public education, won this special election to the Oklahoma state House 60-40 percent, becoming the first Democrat to win this district since 2012. Hell replace Scott Martin, an Oklahoma Republican who actually didnt resign because of a scandal (unlike several of his colleagues already this year). Trump won this district 52-41 percent last fall, making this win a 31-point swing towards the Democrat. Whats more, Rosecrants himself ran for this same seat and lost in 2016
by the same 60-40 margin he won by on Tuesday.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/12/1698074/-OOOOk-lahoma-where-the-Democratic-pickups-come-sweeping-down-the-plain
Wow! Thanks Trump!
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)Nice!
MFM008
(19,826 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)if you were planning to run for office in Oklahoma and wanted to win you ran as a Democratic Candidate. About the time we started using electronic vote counting machines the tide started changing. I live here, have lived here all my life save for a couple years in California and a year and a half in 'Nam. I pay attention, I read the newspaper every single day and have since I could read. In fact the Tulsa World Newspaper is what I learned to read with. The 'funnies' were my inspiration to want to gain that knowledge that is provided by reading. I continue to look back where we've been all the while staying focused on tomorrow and where we're going.
So yes Oklahoma used to be as Blue of a State as any State in these United States.
I'm happy to see the changes coming and have spoken to many people about that very thing these last couple years.
haveahart
(905 posts)nocalflea
(1,387 posts)gasping for air, self-immolating...?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I know there's lots of stuff to be said about Houston and Florida, but anyone seen any coverage from the big media boys?