Florida Democrats flip the Jacksonville mayor’s office in a major upset

Did you mean to say that? I am definitely a republican and almost voted for her because I didn't like Davis, so I'm not even unhappy with the result. Hope she governs down the middle because the city is far from liberal and doubt it changes.

 

Keep in mind that Democrat mayors account for 76% of all major cities in the US. Yet, these blue mayors reside over some of the worst crime in the country. Blue or red, mayors are just figure heads with little to no power. Just ask Birmingham that, where every mayor except for one has been a democrat, with every mayor since 1979 both black and democrat, yet many of them left their position in worse shape than when they got there. So far Woodfin has done a remarkable job but the city continues to decline. There was a time when Birmingham was the 3rd largest city in the South and led the world in steel manufacturing (Birmingham is the only location in the world where all materials to make steel are local).

 

Donna Deegan and Daniel Davis?

 

DeSantis won Jax by 20 points. That Jax didn’t change yesterday.

 

Or 11 points

 

Ah ….. this explains why Jax is now a “great place to live”!

 

I bet that margin would be slimmer now than it was then

 

10.7?

 

Do you live in Jacksonville, if not what do you know? I do and disagree completely.

 

Maybe not worthy of a thread, but another big win for the Dems last night.
Colorado Republicans lose conservative stronghold they've held for 45 years

These stories are still relatively anecdotal, but the last year or so the anecdotes all seem to be going in one direction.

 

Ok so maybe anecdotal.

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By the numbers: Across 18 state legislative races held this year, including yesterday, Democrats have outperformed the 2020 presidential results by an average of six points, according to a Washington Post analysis.”

Republicans can't shake their post-Roe election slump

 

Gosh I mean Jacksonville is such a nice place with virtually no crime or homelessness….oh wait

 

All those years of Republican leadership causing all that crime and homelessness, eh?

 

Yes, I meant to say it. You are probably taking what I said out of context. I wasn’t saying that the result wasn’t about the individuals, I was saying that the use of the term upset was applied to the parties as opposed to the individuals. It was an upset because the Democrats were the underdogs.

 

Duval is Jax.

 

They were not. She led the whole way in most polls.

 

I’ll say it one last time… the upset was not about the individuals, it was about the parties. I’ve already said it five times. What is so hard to understand.

 

Yes, and DeSantis won by 11 points.

 

Your argument is lame. Jax had a black mayor as recently as 2011 when Jax was even more Republican. In is not unusual for spasmodic voters to lash out one way or another when frightened.

 

You may characterize my argument however you wish. I disagree, but that is ok. But that wasn’t the problem, was it? The problem was that you were talking about something different than I was.