It’s happening everywhereby digby
Oh, look, more upsets:
Oklahoma:
Democrats added another win in the deep-red Oklahoma Legislature on Tuesday, continuing the minority party’s string of success and chipping away at the Republican Party’s hold on state government.
The previously GOP-held House seat and two Senate seats on the ballot were all in mostly Republican districts around Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
But Democrat Allison Ikley-Freeman, a therapist at a nonprofit mental health agency, eked out a win in Senate District 17 over Republican Brian O’Hara, a former Jenks city councilor and district director for U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine. The seat that represents parts of Sand Springs, Jenks and west Tulsa.
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Oklahoma is among the most conservative states in the U.S. and there are nearly twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats in the areas where voters headed to the polls Tuesday. Oklahoma Democrats had already won three GOP-held seats in special elections this year and they nearly won a fourth in a heavily Republican district in Seminole County.
Democrats wrested control of New Mexico’s largest city from the GOP on Tuesday as Democratic New Mexico State Auditor Tim Keller easily won a race to become Albuquerque’s next mayor.
According to unofficial results, Keller beat Republican Albuquerque City Councilor Dan Lewis with 62 percent of the vote compared to 38 percent – results CBS Albuquerque affiliate KRQE called “a blowout” — in a race that centered on the city’s raising crime rates and its struggling economy.
The election came a week after Democrats won governorships and legislative seats in Virginia and New Jersey and took mayoral seats in places such as Helena, Montana.
Keller told a packed room at Albuquerque’s historic Andaluz Hotel his victory was a rejection of fear and “language that divided us” – a veiled jab at President Trump.
Keep your fingers crossed that this energy stays high enough to take back at least one house of congress. It remains vitally important that the American people repudiate Trumpism or we are well and truly screwed.
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