The next cover of the New Yorker, featuring Barry Blitt’s “War-a-Lago.”
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The next cover of the New Yorker, featuring Barry Blitt’s “War-a-Lago.”
Bob La Follette at the Wisconsin Capitol
A union sing-in at the (very acoustic) Wisconsin Capitol.
Former Hawaii Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who narrowly lost a memorable 2014 Senate primary against Brian Schatz, has died.
The Parti Québécois still in majority territory but just barely as the Libérals, with a new leader, surge. Election due by October 5.
On March 26, the Census Bureau is slated to release its annual update to population estimates for counties and metropolitan areas, including components of change.
Chinese EV maker BYD’s new Blade batteries have a 5-minute charging time and 621-mile range.
www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd...
The New York tabloids’ take on the Noem firing.
The Wisconsin Capitol in the fog
But since then, D performance in the 224 smaller counties has fallen off and been a big contributor to Ds’ electoral struggles.
In recent years, Democrats in Texas have done quite well in the state’s 30 largest counties, where around 8 in 10 Texas voters live.
On the other hand, they get shellacked in the state’s remaining 224 counties. O’Rourke got nearly 27% of the vote there in 2018 and kept it close.
Trigger laws enabled some states to ban abortion the second the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now Virginia is considering one that would limit political spending if the Court ever overturns Citizen United. bit.ly/3OYOEOV
Lev Parnas (yes, that Lev Parnas) is running for Congress in FL-27.
floridapolitics.com/archives/783...
A further update: Congressman Burgess Owens (UT-04), who is one of the plaintiffs in the GOP suit to block the new congressional map, has announced that he is not running for re-election.
However, the court is reserving judgment on whether the amendment was properly enacted by the legislature. Today’s ruling just allows the vote to go forward.
The Virginia Supreme Court has cleared the way for the April 21 vote on the redistricting amendment to go forward, lifting a lower court injunction.
www.cbs19news.com/news/state-h...
Despite suggesting during briefing that they would take their map challenge to SCOTUS, Utah Republicans have not yet taken any steps to do that. (The federal district court denied their request for an injunction on 2/23, a week and a half ago.)
The one exception is Florida, which has a longer runway and already has a redistricting special session set for April 20-24 with the ostensible purpose of responding to Callais - but Callais might not be out by then either.
States, of course, could always move or redo primaries or hold special elections, but that's something they generally are reluctant to do. Unpopular with both election administrators and candidates.
With Callais not out yet & no opinion likely until late March at the earliest, it is becoming functionally too late for most southern states to redraw maps.
By the end of March, primaries will have happened in TX, NC, & MS & mail ballots will go out shortly after in AL, GA, and LA.
The court could always add an opinion day, of course, but that would be unusual.
I badly need a haircut, and the only appointment I could get was over the lunch hour, so I would personally like to thank SCOTUS for not issuing Callais today.
Two opinions today from SCOTUS, neither of which was Callais.
After today, the court is not back on the bench until March 20.
SCOTUSblog reporting a one-box day and that the box “looked light” - which, if correct, suggests probably not Callais. But 🤷🏻♂️
Notice that Dem primary voting in TX is much more predictable based on geography than GOP primary voting.
Racial demographics structure Dem primaries & Americans are geographically segregated by race, so...
This is something Gall Sigler & I wrote about in the paper flagged 👇.
Today, in every vote counts
All said, it’s pretty cool to see Texas politics the center of national attention tonight.
It also could have been worse . . .
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Tired: Waiting for special election results.
Wired: Waiting for 2026 primary results.
