MISSOURI DEMOCRATS FLIP A STATE SENATE SEAT FROM RED TO BLUE

[RandySF]

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[Desert grandma]

1. Great News!

Let's flip the entire US congress from red to blue in November too!

[lagomorph777]

41. Great work, MO!!

We almost succeeded in VA but the RePutins stole one single vote, one seat, and the Assembly.

[Leghorn21]

2. YEAH BABY!! --- and many HUGE thanks for your updates, Randy, you keep me mightily informed -

Much appreciate your efforts!!

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Fantastic!

They have been flinging poo at her for weeks!

Congratulations, Missouri Democrats!

[RandySF]

5. And it wasn't even close

She won 60%

[smirkymonkey]

4. Bravo!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

6. Oh hail yes!!

BIG big win!! Missouri? Woot.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Great news and congrats to Lauren Arthur!

[tazkcmo]

8. Yay!!!

My gut was wrong! Never been happier to be wrong. I was hopeful but extremely sceptical she would win, not because of the quality of our candidate but the lack of quality in my neighbors. A small bit of faith has been restored!

[sheshe2]

9. And a WOMAN!

Brava!

[rwheeler31]

10. Wonderful

[workinclasszero]

11. I'm soooo happy!!!!

I voted for her early this morning! Lauren killed it!!! 20 points right!?

Shitler won this area by 5 against Hillary. What a flip!!!!

Blue tsunami is coming you fu**ing traitorous GOP bastards!!!!!!

[TheRealNorth]

12. I want to believe

[workinclasszero]

15. Believe it!!

15 percent over Dumps margin over Hillary and believe me this is a redstate!!

I can’t believe it’s sooo HUUUGE what a win for us redstate Democrats!!!!!!

[RandySF]

17. Didn't Clay County vote for Kandor?

[workinclasszero]

18. Yes I believe so

Trump carried it by 5% over Hillary though.

[TheRealNorth]

39. Total Vote counts

Based on the total vote counts post on the CNN website for Statewide races in Ohio and Indiana, I'm seeing Republican vote totals much greater than Democrat vote totals with 99%+ in.

[Maraya1969]

44. Link? Are you sure you are not looking at the past presidential election?

[louis c]

45. Link please.

[TheRealNorth]

48. Data

Added - okay - these numbers were from May 8th (not this Tuesday), but they are from 2018.

(You will need to do a little math to combine the vote totals of each candidate for each party)

Indiana election results
[link:https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/primaries/indiana/all/democratic|

Indiana -Senate
Democrat total = 287,596
Republican total = 506,609

Ohio - Senate
[link:https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/primaries/ohio/senate/democratic|
Democrat total = 605,573
Republican total = 760,808

Indiana Dem vote may be a little depressed because there was no competitive statewide office that I saw, but in Ohio the Dems had a competive primary for governor and the Republican advantage still held.


Not trying to pee on anyone's parade, but don't discount the Republican media ginning up their base while at the same time the 3rd party negative advertising onslaught tries to suppress Democrat turnout.

[TheRealNorth]

49. New Jersey

Total vote counts from Tuesday's data from New Jersey looks a little better with the combined Dem total clobbering the Republican total

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/05/us/elections/results-new-jersey-primary-elections.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=A73F6FE0509A5A8F566F86FB665E5837&gwt=pay

I don't know if it's just the Midwest or what.

[louis c]

51. Thanks for the info

Of course, there's no New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Virginia.

I wonder if you post that pro-Democratic info on FR.

I am always skeptical of a newbie with few posts and no contribution (gold star).

I hope I'm wrong about you.

[workinclasszero]

21. BTW

I love that pic!!!

[BigmanPigman]

13. Yippie!

[bearsfootball516]

14. A red seat in a red state, and it was a complete blowout

The Blue Wave is alive and well!!

[herding cats]

16. Heartening news!

Thank you for sharing!!

[grantcart]

19. Thanks Randy, keep the news coming

[bluestarone]

20. AWESOME

Blue wave all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ismnotwasm]

22. K&R

[betsuni]

23. K&R

[cbdo2007]

24. Lots of Arthur supporters at the poll this morning...when it was full of trump

People last time I was there. I was scared to go this morning but was pleasantly surprised and in this are the Repubes are really laying low and keeping quiet.

[workinclasszero]

26. Maybe the Harley-Davidson plant shutdown

changed a few minds around here eh?

[cbdo2007]

42. I don't know if it changed their minds...but they sure didn't show up to vote and are keeping

their mouths shut. I'm in Liberty and even saw multiple Lauren Arther yard signs and only one for the other guy.

[workinclasszero]

43. I heard lots of offensive attack ads for the republican on the RW radio 980

Really ugly racist stuff about illegal alien murderers, ugly Trump-style BS.

That helped him out a lot at the polls LOL!

[Demsrule86]

25. wonderful!

[Demovictory9]

27. good news

[xmas74]

28. Lauren is a wonderful person

And has made her mark as an up and coming star in the state party.

Her win makes me cautiously optimistic for November wins for Hillary Shields, Renee Hoagensen and Claire McCaskill.

If you want an election in Missouri in November to watch-just one outside of Congress and Senate-watch Hillary Shields. I think she's definitely someone that could be a rising star.

[workinclasszero]

29. Claire McCaskill congrats State Senator Arthur

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[xmas74]

30. My daughter is working on Claire's campaign.

She said everyone was really watching tonight's election closely.

[workinclasszero]

32. Boy these results have got to have Claire and her

people happy as all get out!

[xmas74]

33. Absolutely.

She's an intern this summer and her boss has already sent messages about how this is great news for the campaign.

I know she'll beat Sykes and Monetti. I think she can beat party favorite Hawley, though it'll be closer. I worry that Austin Peterson will narrowly pull off the primary. He has that Libertarian Ron and Rand Paul feel and I think it could be bad for McCaskill.

[Leghorn21]

31. Righteous quote via Kyle Griffin:

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Missouri Republican consultant: "Every suburban Republican
should be petrified tonight. This devastating loss signals they
could lose this fall."



BOOYAH!!

[workinclasszero]

34. Blue wave is coming for you Trump suckers!!

You can run but you can’t hide!!

[Cha]

37. Gracias Leghorn!!

[Wounded Bear]

35. Go Missouri!

[Cha]

36. Congratulations Lauren Arthur and Democracy!!!

[oasis]

38. Mizzou looking good. U.S.Sen. Claire McKaskill should take heart.

[archiemo]

40. Great news from my state (for a change)! Thanks, Randy for all of your local coverage and awareness

[Honeycombe8]

46. The Blue Wave is looking good so far. nt

[Dem_4_Life]

47. Fantastic news that is so AWESOME!!!

Fingers crossed for my state senate seat. He is amazing

https://www.klingfortexas.org/

[leftyladyfrommo]

50. She really campaigned hard.

I got all kinds of fliers from her.