Your lips to the gods' ears on Florida. Home & auto insurance are already pushing the middle & working classes hard here. Rs screwing up on the ACA adds almost a year of monthly reminders that a vote for the other side might be a good idea if one wants health insurance--they might as well legislate a massive donation to the DNC. Granted, we're perfectly capable on the blue side of blowing that kind of advantage, but it's not nothing.
53% turnout doesn’t strike me as at all out of line for a midterm election. I think the national average is south of that. That’s a little low for competitive districts but if you told me 2026 would feature that nationally I wouldn’t blink.
I wasn't paying attention to this race until late - was Behn's nomination just a case of nobody else really wanting it, or did a "blue tea party" kind of situation among dem primary voters get her nominated over somebody more suited to the district?
Your lips to the gods' ears on Florida. Home & auto insurance are already pushing the middle & working classes hard here. Rs screwing up on the ACA adds almost a year of monthly reminders that a vote for the other side might be a good idea if one wants health insurance--they might as well legislate a massive donation to the DNC. Granted, we're perfectly capable on the blue side of blowing that kind of advantage, but it's not nothing.
53% turnout doesn’t strike me as at all out of line for a midterm election. I think the national average is south of that. That’s a little low for competitive districts but if you told me 2026 would feature that nationally I wouldn’t blink.
I wasn't paying attention to this race until late - was Behn's nomination just a case of nobody else really wanting it, or did a "blue tea party" kind of situation among dem primary voters get her nominated over somebody more suited to the district?
The moderate Dems didn't coordinate and rally behind one mod Dem candidate, letting the lefty squeak out the primary win with 27.9% in a FPP election.
Sigh
I think more the latter, but also it was an extremely divided primary. Behn won with 27.9% of the vote and the last-place candidate got 23.1%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tennessee%27s_7th_congressional_district_special_election#Results_2