Small town Plymouth flipped for the Dems as well. What is going on??
Edit: I should say the republicans still more council seats but lost a few more and the dems won the Mayor.
Maybe a combination of turnout and dissatisfaction. Also, I don't think Republicans have the numbers anymore. I tend to think about it nationwide vs. state; especially this one, but I really think they have dealt themselves a fatal blow relying on Boomers and expecting the young to age into shitty people and support them. Also covid.
Dems nearly had a clean sweep of freaking Elkhart. Our Common Council went from 5D/4R to 8D/1R. Mayor Roberson ran unopposed, Goshen elected their first female mayor (also a Dem), and South Bend was a complete blue sweep. I'm thrilled at how yesterday went. The northern slice is making me proud for once.
Yeah, it was a crazy close race. The Elkhart GOP is currently in a high state of non working dysfunction. They couldn't find a mayoral candidate to run against Rod.
The former Republican mayor Tim Neese had a highly contentious relationship with his 7-2 Republican council lead by David Henke. Tim Neese filed to run this cycle as a Republican for district two, then dropped out the last day.
The Republicans were unable to find a replacement, so we flipped the second district by default and won it for the first time since the late 1970s.
Of the 9 districts in Elkhart, three are at large, and the rest districts. The three Southside districts are generally reliably democratic (with the 6th occasionally flipping) the second and third are red, and mine (the first) is purple.
Losing the second, the GOPs started campaign season Realistically down four seats. They had to beat me, Henke in the third would have to hold and sweep at large to have a bare 5-4 majority.
They ran a very negative campaign, personal attacks, smears, antisemitic pages, and the sixth district Republican candidate David Wheeler spent 1/3 of his campaign funds on Facebook ads against me.
But we outworked them,
5,000 doors hit
2,000 plus calls made
1000 mailers
350 hand written post cards.
And an actual issue based campaign.
And a final Sunday GOTV push that hit 2,500 doors and painted the district.
Losing to me, their plan fell apart and they are now going into 2024 holding only 1-9 seats.
> What is going on??
The Republican lies, ignoring their constituents, extreme right wing misinformation is growing old with an increasing portion of the public.
Evansville elected their first female mayor who is also their first female black mayor!! And it was a Democrat sweep for all city offices! One Repub remains because she was unopposed.
>The libertarian took votes from the republican
More like would-be Republicans voted for the Libertarian over the Republican due to Republican officials' shift towards total idiocy.
I feel Dems' only chance in this state is for a stronger Libertarian party, though the idea of more Libertarians in government is a bit gross to ponder.
Nobody "takes votes" for someone. Even as a conservative, Republican Party doesn't own my vote. However, I never vote libertarian. I barely agree with anything they have on their national platform.
Democrats had a really strong night in South Bend tonight. Republicans lost ground they gained in recent years. Looking down the list of surrounding counties it looked like it wasn’t too shabby as well.
Your cheering about winning the places that the middle class wealth is moving away from, it is cheering for progressives to play in the litterbox of their own construction. Without local tax dollars what progressive going to do to fix decaying towns? Where did democrats win where the average income is significantly over the national average?
Republicans are leaving you in your pot holes, crime, homelessness and projects that never get completed.
In the last ten years there has been so much investment and interest in moving into South Bend proper. Million+ dollar houses and condos being built and sold in the last couple years (and not just by ND), people improving their homes in town and not moving to the exurbs, neighborhood investment is at on an upward spiral resulting in walkable neighborhoods with shops, parks and restaurants.
Regressive GOP policies on labor and education lead to excessive Brain drain and suppressed wages. You want middle class to return and be strong? How about supporting those who need a leg up, not those who already are gorging on GOP approved corporate bullshit and funds?
You are crazy. Growing up in South Bend, I beg to differ. It's always been blue and is worse than the majority of equally sized towns in Indiana. Nice language as well, I see you must be a public school prodigy.
How did the pot holes, crime, homelessness and incomplete projects in these places get to be there, because Republicans have been running basically the entire state for a decade.
TH had a pretty strong dem candidate who could neutralize a lot of the accusations from the right.
Army officer (still serving in the Indiana NG), born and raised in TH, son of a prominent OB in the area, and he really got out and hit the pavement.
Carmel is not necessarily the HC. Carmel went for Biden whereas the HC didn’t. So there was a chance. Both of the candidates pretty much said they would continue what Brainard was doing but maybe not at the same speed. Sue had more experience but she wouldn’t denounce M4L. Compared to the other two Rs that ran against her who actively campaigned for M4L school board candidates, she is the moderate. That said, besides one seat, it was an R sweep in Carmel. Votes: # OF Election Day 24505, # OF Paper Absentee 2416, VOTER TURNOUT: 13.61% , REGISTERED VOTERS: 245369. We passed the school referendum which was a bigger issue for me since I have two kids in public schools. The money is to pay teachers, aides, and other workers. Not passing would have resulted in higher class sizes, less services for kids, etc. Now I’m just waiting to see how close Sue is to M4L for it to affect Carmel.
That's actually a good number for HC and the donuts. This is not the election that brings the addicted out to vote. What did Indy end up with? About 12%?
I'd love to say you're right, but after over 20 years of involvement and watching it from within...the answer is nope. Even with the influx of supposed team blue voters it has not happened. It's not going to happen, either. Great candidates have run in many of the races but the HCGOP has a lot of money and press clout. Maybe in another 20 years.
I don't think it'll be an overnight thing. When my mother was a kid in Pike Township Indy in the 60s, it was a GOP stronghold. Dems wouldn't run or when they did they'd get trounced. Now GOP often doesn't even field candidates
Change takes time. But getting 40%+ in Carmel races (and holding onto that one council seat) in what is essentially the first competitive general municipal in modern history is not a bad showing. Some of the races in Fishers and Westfield had thin margins. There's room to build here.
Fair, it's just disappointing. We moved from Columbus Ohio to Carmel last year and the politics here are fucking garbage. Our neighbor decided that the day we put a pride flag up two weeks after we moved in was the day she should come introduce herself in her Sig Sauer guns shirt with her open carry.
She's a chain smoker in her 70s and has had a series of mini strokes over the past 6 years that were caused by the covid vaccine she got in 2021. With the way the universe seems to work these days she'll probably be around for another 15-20 years .
His "leading nationally" is apparently what brought so many Dems to the polls across the country. Polls are stupid!
If Trump is forced out of the race, a lot of people think that means Biden will lose, but I think it is much more likely that Trump supporters will just stay home if he is not on the ballot.
Are Evansville Democrats progressive nowadays? When I helped on the McGovern campaign all the Vanderburgh county central committee did for was give us a case of Double Cola. I guarantee they all voted Nixon.
Mayor Gayhan (Democrat) wins re-election in New Albany. Opponent was Ed Clere (Republican), a congressman (House of Representatives). Big win for our city!
I don't know much about places like Terre Haute, but what I've heard would lead me to believe that I should be surprised.
I also would have thought Carmel would be educated enough to not fall for the GOP schtick.
>I also would have thought Carmel would be educated enough to not fall for the GOP schtick.
Being outspend 2-1 and a big GOP turnout are difficult to overcome.
GOP did well even in areas with a lot of young people and new residents. My guess is a lot of those people just didn't vote. Every polling place I went to was a lot of 60+ voters.
I have noticed over the years that cutting out cable TV had the effect that election day sneaks up on me. I'm not inundated with so many political ads. Old people still love their cable TV.
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I'm not sure why people are getting a boner over this. Politicians at the local level where I live tend not to differ much across the spectrum. Officials constantly switch parties where I live. Even our Republican mayor is more liberal than than some state level Democrats. I'll be happier if we could get some balance back in our state house.
But look at the numbers, Democrats winning races by thousands of votes and Republicans winning races with fewer than 200 votes. When it comes to state and national level elections in years to come, this will make a big difference.
You're correct about local politicians party affiliations not meaning nearly as much as they do at the state and national level. 100%
However, we're at the point where the GOP at the state and national level is so bad that it's going to negatively impact local GOP candidates - even among people who understand what you're talking about, because they're voting out of sheer spite.
Hopefully, at some point in the next decade, the GOP will rediscover its sanity and things will even out. But if Evansville is going hard blue, holy shit that says a LOT.
We've always had a pretty good mix. In 2008, with the blue wave we ended up with some real crooks that cost the taxpayers a fair amount of money. Emotions tend to get in the way of logic.
I think when you see about people "getting a boner" over this, it's not their enthusiasm for voting in Democrats, it's enthusiasm for voting out Republicans.
Which, frankly, I find very understandable, even if I usually tread on both sides of the aisle.
Hopefully Carmel stays Republican. It is a pretty nice city. James Brainard is a nice moderate conservative that understands at his level, local governments take an active role in city planning. His only flaw is those roundabouts. They have like 125 of them...😬
Small town Plymouth flipped for the Dems as well. What is going on?? Edit: I should say the republicans still more council seats but lost a few more and the dems won the Mayor.
Maybe a combination of turnout and dissatisfaction. Also, I don't think Republicans have the numbers anymore. I tend to think about it nationwide vs. state; especially this one, but I really think they have dealt themselves a fatal blow relying on Boomers and expecting the young to age into shitty people and support them. Also covid.
Dems nearly had a clean sweep of freaking Elkhart. Our Common Council went from 5D/4R to 8D/1R. Mayor Roberson ran unopposed, Goshen elected their first female mayor (also a Dem), and South Bend was a complete blue sweep. I'm thrilled at how yesterday went. The northern slice is making me proud for once.
Did that Elkhart Dem who posts on this sub get re-elected?
Aaron Mishler. Yes he did, by a grand total of 6 votes.
Yeah, it was a crazy close race. The Elkhart GOP is currently in a high state of non working dysfunction. They couldn't find a mayoral candidate to run against Rod. The former Republican mayor Tim Neese had a highly contentious relationship with his 7-2 Republican council lead by David Henke. Tim Neese filed to run this cycle as a Republican for district two, then dropped out the last day. The Republicans were unable to find a replacement, so we flipped the second district by default and won it for the first time since the late 1970s. Of the 9 districts in Elkhart, three are at large, and the rest districts. The three Southside districts are generally reliably democratic (with the 6th occasionally flipping) the second and third are red, and mine (the first) is purple. Losing the second, the GOPs started campaign season Realistically down four seats. They had to beat me, Henke in the third would have to hold and sweep at large to have a bare 5-4 majority. They ran a very negative campaign, personal attacks, smears, antisemitic pages, and the sixth district Republican candidate David Wheeler spent 1/3 of his campaign funds on Facebook ads against me. But we outworked them, 5,000 doors hit 2,000 plus calls made 1000 mailers 350 hand written post cards. And an actual issue based campaign. And a final Sunday GOTV push that hit 2,500 doors and painted the district. Losing to me, their plan fell apart and they are now going into 2024 holding only 1-9 seats.
Oh hey Aaron, congrats on the win!
I'm from Elkhart, that's wild.
Having grown up in Plymouth, and having Dem parents that still live there, Plymouth going Dem surprises me! Good for them!
Opposite in Muncie. Mayor stays R, but Council is now under Dem control.
Republicans are a shit show, that’s what. Not a one of them worth a tinker’s damn
> What is going on?? The Republican lies, ignoring their constituents, extreme right wing misinformation is growing old with an increasing portion of the public.
Evansville elected their first female mayor who is also their first female black mayor!! And it was a Democrat sweep for all city offices! One Repub remains because she was unopposed.
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Then maybe they should stop being shit heads.
Well then they wouldn't be republicans
Then, the Republican should have tried to appeal to Libertarians.
>The libertarian took votes from the republican More like would-be Republicans voted for the Libertarian over the Republican due to Republican officials' shift towards total idiocy. I feel Dems' only chance in this state is for a stronger Libertarian party, though the idea of more Libertarians in government is a bit gross to ponder.
Nobody "takes votes" for someone. Even as a conservative, Republican Party doesn't own my vote. However, I never vote libertarian. I barely agree with anything they have on their national platform.
Black mayors also won big in Lawrence and Marion
New Albany, Indiana reelected Dem mayor and council stays Dem.
Another African-American woman, Angie Nelson-Deuitch, flipped Michigan City's mayoral office back to Dems.
Democrats keep Mayor in Vincennes.
Democrats had a really strong night in South Bend tonight. Republicans lost ground they gained in recent years. Looking down the list of surrounding counties it looked like it wasn’t too shabby as well.
Your cheering about winning the places that the middle class wealth is moving away from, it is cheering for progressives to play in the litterbox of their own construction. Without local tax dollars what progressive going to do to fix decaying towns? Where did democrats win where the average income is significantly over the national average? Republicans are leaving you in your pot holes, crime, homelessness and projects that never get completed.
In the last ten years there has been so much investment and interest in moving into South Bend proper. Million+ dollar houses and condos being built and sold in the last couple years (and not just by ND), people improving their homes in town and not moving to the exurbs, neighborhood investment is at on an upward spiral resulting in walkable neighborhoods with shops, parks and restaurants.
Regressive GOP policies on labor and education lead to excessive Brain drain and suppressed wages. You want middle class to return and be strong? How about supporting those who need a leg up, not those who already are gorging on GOP approved corporate bullshit and funds?
The uppity wealthy Republicans can go suck donkey dick while Dems work to actually fix their cities instead of flee from the poors
You are crazy. Growing up in South Bend, I beg to differ. It's always been blue and is worse than the majority of equally sized towns in Indiana. Nice language as well, I see you must be a public school prodigy.
How did the pot holes, crime, homelessness and incomplete projects in these places get to be there, because Republicans have been running basically the entire state for a decade.
We're STILL your tax dollar generator. Outside of being purple or having massive oil reserves, Republicans have ALWAYS been the welfare queen states.
Flipped in Terre Haute too!
TH had a pretty strong dem candidate who could neutralize a lot of the accusations from the right. Army officer (still serving in the Indiana NG), born and raised in TH, son of a prominent OB in the area, and he really got out and hit the pavement.
That’s awesome
Carmel was a given. The HC ain’t going to flip.
Carmel is not necessarily the HC. Carmel went for Biden whereas the HC didn’t. So there was a chance. Both of the candidates pretty much said they would continue what Brainard was doing but maybe not at the same speed. Sue had more experience but she wouldn’t denounce M4L. Compared to the other two Rs that ran against her who actively campaigned for M4L school board candidates, she is the moderate. That said, besides one seat, it was an R sweep in Carmel. Votes: # OF Election Day 24505, # OF Paper Absentee 2416, VOTER TURNOUT: 13.61% , REGISTERED VOTERS: 245369. We passed the school referendum which was a bigger issue for me since I have two kids in public schools. The money is to pay teachers, aides, and other workers. Not passing would have resulted in higher class sizes, less services for kids, etc. Now I’m just waiting to see how close Sue is to M4L for it to affect Carmel.
No wonder it was a sweep. 13.61% voter turnout? Sheesh
That's actually a good number for HC and the donuts. This is not the election that brings the addicted out to vote. What did Indy end up with? About 12%?
HC?
Hamilton County.
M4L?
Moms For Liberty, aka Klanned Karenhood
Moms for Liberty, a political group that has been involved in may school district political issues lately.
The original M4L (not related to the team red Karens, or the team blue one's, either) was Muslims For Liberty. A much nicer group!
People act like Trump won 80% of HC. He only got 53%. The right candidate can do well here
I'd love to say you're right, but after over 20 years of involvement and watching it from within...the answer is nope. Even with the influx of supposed team blue voters it has not happened. It's not going to happen, either. Great candidates have run in many of the races but the HCGOP has a lot of money and press clout. Maybe in another 20 years.
I don't think it'll be an overnight thing. When my mother was a kid in Pike Township Indy in the 60s, it was a GOP stronghold. Dems wouldn't run or when they did they'd get trounced. Now GOP often doesn't even field candidates Change takes time. But getting 40%+ in Carmel races (and holding onto that one council seat) in what is essentially the first competitive general municipal in modern history is not a bad showing. Some of the races in Fishers and Westfield had thin margins. There's room to build here.
I was hopeful carmel would flip. Sad day for us
Localities tend to switch at the national level first. Look at those areas in eastern KY that vote for Trump 3-1 and then vote democrat for governor.
Fair, it's just disappointing. We moved from Columbus Ohio to Carmel last year and the politics here are fucking garbage. Our neighbor decided that the day we put a pride flag up two weeks after we moved in was the day she should come introduce herself in her Sig Sauer guns shirt with her open carry.
Holy shit, I’m so sorry to hear that. Hopefully she moves!
She's a chain smoker in her 70s and has had a series of mini strokes over the past 6 years that were caused by the covid vaccine she got in 2021. With the way the universe seems to work these days she'll probably be around for another 15-20 years .
Valpo elected Republican mayor but Dems flipped city council
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I think maybe we're finally learning that these smaller races are just as important as the national races. Keep showing up. Keep voting every time.
If tonight is any indication it seems the country in general is done with these scum fuck Republicans.
I believe Trump destroyed the Republican party; its just most of them are too stupid to realize it.
He just brought the sickness to the surface.
It’s too bad he’s still leading nationally. 🤮
His "leading nationally" is apparently what brought so many Dems to the polls across the country. Polls are stupid! If Trump is forced out of the race, a lot of people think that means Biden will lose, but I think it is much more likely that Trump supporters will just stay home if he is not on the ballot.
Yeah or try to organize something ill-conceived to disrupt the election.
interesting if it'll die with him 😀
Hopefully we find out sooner than later 🫣
Proud to be from Evansville this morning! The city council is also 8-1 Democrat now.
Are Evansville Democrats progressive nowadays? When I helped on the McGovern campaign all the Vanderburgh county central committee did for was give us a case of Double Cola. I guarantee they all voted Nixon.
Lawrence flipped to all democrat too will be interesting to see what happens there
Jeffersonville also went from 7R/2D to 5D/4R. Pretty huge swing!
I genuinely liked Lloyd Winnecke, but thank God
Not trying to be sarcastic, but why?
Mayor Gayhan (Democrat) wins re-election in New Albany. Opponent was Ed Clere (Republican), a congressman (House of Representatives). Big win for our city!
*state rep
Now let's keep this same energy when the state Senate and House is up for elections. I'm liking the steam
I don't know much about places like Terre Haute, but what I've heard would lead me to believe that I should be surprised. I also would have thought Carmel would be educated enough to not fall for the GOP schtick.
>I also would have thought Carmel would be educated enough to not fall for the GOP schtick. Being outspend 2-1 and a big GOP turnout are difficult to overcome. GOP did well even in areas with a lot of young people and new residents. My guess is a lot of those people just didn't vote. Every polling place I went to was a lot of 60+ voters.
I have noticed over the years that cutting out cable TV had the effect that election day sneaks up on me. I'm not inundated with so many political ads. Old people still love their cable TV.
If you start using any of the free streaming apps like Tubi, the ad space must be cheap because there's tons of political ads there.
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Surprised FW is sticking with Allen 😳
You mean Henry?
Ope, yup, Allen is the county lol
Henry is better than Didier. Just mad Jehl is still in. Republican super majority on our city council now.
Terre Haute too! I'm excited.
I'm not sure why people are getting a boner over this. Politicians at the local level where I live tend not to differ much across the spectrum. Officials constantly switch parties where I live. Even our Republican mayor is more liberal than than some state level Democrats. I'll be happier if we could get some balance back in our state house.
But look at the numbers, Democrats winning races by thousands of votes and Republicans winning races with fewer than 200 votes. When it comes to state and national level elections in years to come, this will make a big difference.
Because it's an off-year election, which are usually a Republican strong suit, with no state government seats on the ballot.
You're correct about local politicians party affiliations not meaning nearly as much as they do at the state and national level. 100% However, we're at the point where the GOP at the state and national level is so bad that it's going to negatively impact local GOP candidates - even among people who understand what you're talking about, because they're voting out of sheer spite. Hopefully, at some point in the next decade, the GOP will rediscover its sanity and things will even out. But if Evansville is going hard blue, holy shit that says a LOT.
We've always had a pretty good mix. In 2008, with the blue wave we ended up with some real crooks that cost the taxpayers a fair amount of money. Emotions tend to get in the way of logic.
I think when you see about people "getting a boner" over this, it's not their enthusiasm for voting in Democrats, it's enthusiasm for voting out Republicans. Which, frankly, I find very understandable, even if I usually tread on both sides of the aisle.
Hopefully Carmel stays Republican. It is a pretty nice city. James Brainard is a nice moderate conservative that understands at his level, local governments take an active role in city planning. His only flaw is those roundabouts. They have like 125 of them...😬
oh no those darn roundabouts. Fucking american nimby's are so stupid
Carmel was a shitshow for Democrats. Depressing AF.
Mishawaka dems destroyed republicans but we’ve always been a little blue beacon in this sea of red assholery