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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMastriano goes down In flames, but ....
Abbot wins re election in Texas!
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Mastriano goes down In flames, but .... (Original Post)
imanamerican63
Nov 2022
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NJCher
(35,706 posts)1. 55.8-42.4
Rachel just announced it.
BumRushDaShow
(129,304 posts)2. What that would mean
is again breaking a supposed unbreakable election "precedent" of never electing a same-party governor in consecutive elections when the previous governor was term-limited.
Tom Wolf (D) had already broken a "precedent" (in quotes) in 2017/2018 by defeating Tom Corbett (R) after Corbett only had one term, and then Wolf won a 2nd term after that.
So assuming Shapiro holds as the winner, he breaks the other "precedent" (in quotes) by being from the same party as the previous (term-limited) governor. I.e., we always alternated parties after each served 2 terms, but no more after tonight.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)3. Texas is shit.
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)4. Floriduh
is too. Those red states suck and they are dependent on blue states financially.