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March 02, 2018 09:51·
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Democratic Town Committee Chairwoman Stephanie Philips said Young's victory is "a big win" and that the Democrats won on values.

This also became the fifth, New Hampshire House seat to flip from Republican to Democratic since President Trump's election. This means that for the coming midterm - and the next presidential election - OH voters will have to deal with a map that gave Republicans 75 percent of the state's seats, even though the GOP won only about 57 percent of the vote in 2016.

Republican Bill Rabon of Southport is seeking his fifth term in state Senate.

At a GOP event, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Bexar County GOP chairman Robert Stovall and former U.S. Rep. Francisco "Quico" Canseco are strong contenders, on the Republican side.

Tuesday's Democratic and Republican primaries on March 6 will have thousands make their way to the polls for a massive election cycle that could have a major impact not only in Washington, but also here on the home front; and with so many choices presented to voters, a small refresher course was in order.

Democratic early votes are up 93% on 2014 in the largest counties that are tracked daily by the Texas secretary of state's office. "Usually there is a handful, and what happens is when there is an opening like this, one or two people with lots of notoriety get in, and so they scare everyone else out". Carol Donovan, chairwoman of the Dallas County Democratic Party believes President Donald Trump is what is motiving voters for the huge surge of Texas Democrats.

Even so, the action is putting Republicans on their toes. "This is the moment", said Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, D-Yonkers, who is running for the state Senate in a special election in April.

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More participation in primary elections doesn't necessarily correlate with higher voter turnout in general elections.

Election day for the Texas primaries is in less than a week, and the race for a representative spot in Texas' 21st Congressional District is heating up. The CNN piece notes that Senator Ron Wyden has been asking to see those returns and "to obtain records about a lucrative 2008 real estate deal between Trump and a Russian billionaire that raised questions among Democrats about potential money laundering and suspect business dealings".

"If Democratic candidates can run solid, well-funded campaigns", he said, "they would be in better position to take advantage of an enthusiastic base". By applying uniform rates to the vote counts of each race in 2016, WhoWhatWhy found the point where Democrats could win enough seats to win a majority. Trump's favorability in Texas isn't as high as a state with a deeply red reputation would suggest. During the same period there have been just four Democrat-to-Republican turnovers (though in one case, the Democrats didn't field a candidate).

The depressed electoral participation has been attributed to a host of reasons in the past, from acts of voter suppression to unmotivated voters.

Another race to be decided in the primary is for District 42 district attorney. The email urged Republicans to vote in the primary and donate to Abbott's re-election campaign. As CNN's senior political analyst Ronald Brownstein describes in his analysis today of the Parkland shooting and the post-millennial generation's impending political influence, by 2028, post-millennials, now under age 20, will comprise a nontrivial portion of the voting age population.

Yet voter primary participation is inexplicably low. But when it comes to convincing Hispanic voters to play a bigger role in elections, it doesn't help that they're already starting from behind.

What's ominous about these two - one in New Hampshire, one in CT - is they continue a pattern of Republican reversals at the state level.

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