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Aug. 8th, 2018 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI think I'm going to have to donate to the Democratic Party for my state. I loathe the Republican candidate for governor, and I want us to keep the Senator who's running for re-election. I'm more worried about the race for governor because Senator Stabenaw is an incumbent and has that edge. She's being targeted by a lot of conservative money, though.
Most of the local candidates I voted for won. A couple of the races were pretty close. Our ward's city council election was decided by 130 votes. The mayoral race had a bigger margin-- 4000 votes. The vote for state representative for our district had the biggest margin I noticed, but that wasn't surprised. The winner had been our state senator for years but was term limited and so switched to running for the house. She had about 9000 more votes than her opponent. I'm pretty sure she'll win in November, but the Republicans will be running someone against her. The race for state senator was another tight one with a difference of less than 250 votes (there's no Republican candidate for the seat, so this guy will be our state representative).
I spent a good bit of time on my decision about the mayor and about city council than on any of the other offices because I wasn't really thrilled with any of my options. The things I didn't like about the candidates weren't the same, so I was trying to decide what I objected to more.
It looks like turnout was unexpectedly high state-wide. If I'm interpreting the numbers right, playing up support for Trump policies helped Republican candidates win and playing up opposition to Trump policies helped Democratic candidates win. I expect that to continue.
Oh, and the bus millage passed overwhelmingly.
Most of the local candidates I voted for won. A couple of the races were pretty close. Our ward's city council election was decided by 130 votes. The mayoral race had a bigger margin-- 4000 votes. The vote for state representative for our district had the biggest margin I noticed, but that wasn't surprised. The winner had been our state senator for years but was term limited and so switched to running for the house. She had about 9000 more votes than her opponent. I'm pretty sure she'll win in November, but the Republicans will be running someone against her. The race for state senator was another tight one with a difference of less than 250 votes (there's no Republican candidate for the seat, so this guy will be our state representative).
I spent a good bit of time on my decision about the mayor and about city council than on any of the other offices because I wasn't really thrilled with any of my options. The things I didn't like about the candidates weren't the same, so I was trying to decide what I objected to more.
It looks like turnout was unexpectedly high state-wide. If I'm interpreting the numbers right, playing up support for Trump policies helped Republican candidates win and playing up opposition to Trump policies helped Democratic candidates win. I expect that to continue.
Oh, and the bus millage passed overwhelmingly.
