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Democrat wins deep red MI State House District #74

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Democrat wins deep red MI State House District #74

Post by MWmetalhead » Wed May 04, 2022 6:57 am

The Republican candidate was such a piece of vile garbage, that a Democrat managed to win a special election in a deep red district that includes the likes of Grandville, Walker, and Sparta, among other communities.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county ... -district/

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politi ... 614211002/

Normally, this would be considered a gigantic upset win, but given Robert Regan's past remarks Ukraine and a creepy analogy involving his own daughter and rape, his defeat is not terribly surprising to me.

Because this was a special election, Glanville's term will only last approximately eight months. Maybe the GOP will field a better candidate next time (of note, the next election will feature the reconfigured districts that were recently adopted into law).



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Re: Democrat wins deep red MI State House District #74

Post by TC Talks » Wed May 04, 2022 1:47 pm

Democrats nationally are unpacking this win...
Democrat Carol Glanville defeated her Republican opponent in a special election Tuesday for a Michigan state House seat. Glanville won by 11 points, 51 percent to 40 percent, even though the district has been represented by Republicans for decades.

Of course, Republican Robert Regan was an exceptionally damaged candidate. He gained notoriety when video recently surfaced of him suggesting that he tells his daughters to “lie back and enjoy it” if “rape is inevitable.”

Regan claimed this was an analogy designed to warn against accepting the supposedly stolen 2020 election. But Republicans and Democrats alike roundly condemned him for it.

It’s certainly possible Regan would have won if he hadn’t made this hideous statement. Yet the swing in the district was nonetheless unexpectedly large, and what’s interesting about this race is how the Democrat ran it.

Glanville adopted an approach to politics similar to that of McMorrow. Regan’s right-wing extremism went far beyond those rape comments and even included suggestions that the coronavirus pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine (and of course Trump’s 2020 loss) were all hoaxes.

Glanville took all that on frontally. That’s hardly surprising by itself, but she also tried to weave it into a larger story about right-wing extremism and why it’s at odds with the values of most Michiganders.

“We showed that Republican extremism has no home in Michigan,” Glanville told me in an interview.

Importantly, Glanville went out of her way to articulate her own more inclusive values with conviction. She sought to turn the contest into a clash of values over what kind of society we want to live in.

As Glanville put it, Republicans are telling us their own story about “who we are.” Whether their rhetoric is anti-transgender, antiabortion, anti-education, or anti-democracy, Glanville said, the “thread” running through it all is “extremism.”

Which requires Democrats to respond with something big and meaningful about who they think we should be.

“Democrats need to tell their story,” Glanville told me, suggesting she could not have won without the Republican voters who responded positively to a Democrat who was forthright about what she believes.

“The big takeaway from all this is that people are tired of radicalism and conspiracy theories,” Glanville said. She paired this with bread-and-butter messaging about education, good jobs, infrastructure and climate concerns.
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Re: Democrat wins deep red MI State House District #74

Post by paul8539 » Fri May 13, 2022 7:07 pm

Sort of like what happened to Rostenkowski in Illinois some years ago. He was a Democrat in a very heavily Democrat district. He did something nasty (I forget the details) and he lost to a Republican. Two years later, another Democrat got in. They had to elect a Republican just to get rid of Rostenkowski.

The same thing here. They had to elect a Democrat just to get rid of this Republican. In the upcoming election, another Republican will be elected (if this guy doesn't run). If this guy does run again, then the Democrat will win again.



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Re: Democrat wins deep red MI State House District #74

Post by ftballfan » Tue May 24, 2022 10:52 pm

paul8539 wrote:
Fri May 13, 2022 7:07 pm
Sort of like what happened to Rostenkowski in Illinois some years ago. He was a Democrat in a very heavily Democrat district. He did something nasty (I forget the details) and he lost to a Republican. Two years later, another Democrat got in. They had to elect a Republican just to get rid of Rostenkowski.

The same thing here. They had to elect a Democrat just to get rid of this Republican. In the upcoming election, another Republican will be elected (if this guy doesn't run). If this guy does run again, then the Democrat will win again.
Another example is Dollar Bill Jefferson in Louisiana. He ran in 2008 in a solid blue district that included New Orleans despite having been indicted on bribery charges, for which he would end up serving five years behind bars. He lost to a Republican (the first Republican to represent New Orleans since 1891), only for that Republican to lose by 30 points in 2010.

Dan Rostenkowski losing is still probably one of the biggest upsets in Congress as he (before he got busted for corruption) was the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee for over a decade.



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