A bit surreal these days in a red FL area for me. Roadways plastered with signs for the many R races (sadly, tantamount to election) today; my sparse Dem ballot had Senate and four (technically) non-partisan contests.
Here in a very blue part of MA, it's not really any different. There's only one competitive race on my ballot too, and that's the case regardless if I take the D or R ballot. (The Republicans have a three-way race for losing to Elizabeth Warren and the Dems have competitive race for State Rep)
The difference is that in the other races there's an unopposed Democratic incumbent and no one at all running for the GOP.
Imo the turnout will be low in most of the state.. my entire Florida ballot had 4 races;local county Council chairman (nonpartisan); local mayor(nonpartisan); Congressional primary(3 little known Democratic candidates who have raised small money); Senate primary(I voted Powell but do have friends who voted Campbell because of the AFL-CIO endorsement).. Expecting Powell to win easily.. All local candidates on my ballot are Republicans, so I voted least toxic\crazy
My locals were two school board and two judges, voted for incumbent over openly-conservative challengers. Sadly, these local nonpartisan races are decided on August primary day with lopsided R turnout guaranteed.
Those school board races statewide need better coverage.. It's my understanding that desantis is bigshotting all over the state, trying to elect MFL types and their book burning friends.. Last cycle, they won a few seats in my county, and immediately went into chaos mode..and you are dead right, many races decided in low turnout August.. That's where a better state Democratic party could do a lot of good
A bit surreal these days in a red FL area for me. Roadways plastered with signs for the many R races (sadly, tantamount to election) today; my sparse Dem ballot had Senate and four (technically) non-partisan contests.
Here in a very blue part of MA, it's not really any different. There's only one competitive race on my ballot too, and that's the case regardless if I take the D or R ballot. (The Republicans have a three-way race for losing to Elizabeth Warren and the Dems have competitive race for State Rep)
The difference is that in the other races there's an unopposed Democratic incumbent and no one at all running for the GOP.
Imo the turnout will be low in most of the state.. my entire Florida ballot had 4 races;local county Council chairman (nonpartisan); local mayor(nonpartisan); Congressional primary(3 little known Democratic candidates who have raised small money); Senate primary(I voted Powell but do have friends who voted Campbell because of the AFL-CIO endorsement).. Expecting Powell to win easily.. All local candidates on my ballot are Republicans, so I voted least toxic\crazy
My locals were two school board and two judges, voted for incumbent over openly-conservative challengers. Sadly, these local nonpartisan races are decided on August primary day with lopsided R turnout guaranteed.
Those school board races statewide need better coverage.. It's my understanding that desantis is bigshotting all over the state, trying to elect MFL types and their book burning friends.. Last cycle, they won a few seats in my county, and immediately went into chaos mode..and you are dead right, many races decided in low turnout August.. That's where a better state Democratic party could do a lot of good