Where we are headed
That’s about as succinct as it gets.
So do yourselves a favor. Volunteer for a local campaign. Donate to a local campaign (not to a marquee one doomed to fail because you really can’t stand the Republican). Encourage your Democratic family and unaffiliated friends (especially) to vote in the primary and general election next year.
Yes, it really does matter:
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff demanded a recount Wednesday after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people cast ballots.
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“This extraordinarily narrow margin … absolutely requires a hand recount to protect the integrity of our democratic process, and to ensure we respect the will of the people,” John Nickelson, the Republican candidate who trailed by one vote in last week’s election for Caddo Parish Sheriff, posted on social media Wednesday.
Henry Whitehorn, the Democrat who won the sheriff runoff, did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
You’ve seen plenty of close races, even in unlikely places like this.
That’s a pretty remarkable outcome, one supposes, in a parish that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 with 52.5% of the vote but for Bill Cassidy (R) by 59.3%. In a state with 64 parishes but few ways to contact any of their local committees (I just looked up all of them).
They apparently have a Democratic Committee in Cado (population 230k, parish seat Shreveport, pop. 188k): a chair, vice chair, secretary and treasurer, but no way to contact them online either except via a Facebook message. The state party hasn’t issued a press release all year (by their web site), and has no calendar of events. Although they did have a “war room” the other day.
And you wonder why we have John Kennedy and Mike Johnson in Congress.