The Republicans won a special South Carolina House election on Tuesday, but the Democrats overperformed by double digits compared to their performance in the 2024 presidential election.
Republican John Lastinger won 62.3 percent of the vote in the election for the 88th district seat, beating Democrat Chuck Hightower, who secured 37.7 percent. This gave the Republicans a net win of +24.6 percent over the Democrats.
This represents an improved performance for the Democrats compared to the 2024 presidential election, when President Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the district by 67 percent to 32 percent, according to The State newspaper. In that election, the Republicans won with a net margin of +35 percentage points.
orclev @lemmy.world - 2day
So, the Democrat candidate did better than the last election but still got absolutely annihilated. Woo. Yay. Happy Day.
This is such a non-news story for anyone but a DNC staffer it's ridiculous. Maybe someone wants to breathlessly report on how much better or worse the green party candidate did last election as long as we're talking about things that don't actually make any difference.
If you "outperform by double digits" and still lose by a double digit margin that just highlights how terrible you are, and how fucked we all are. Had they managed to win that seat or even get things close enough that the loss was in question that would be a news story, this is just reading political tea leaves.
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fedupwithbureaucracy @lemmy.world - 2day
Means nothing if the seat is still GOP
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goferking (he/him) - 2day
And the fun of statistics means could have been a 10 instead of a 5.
But even more meaningless when still a dem loss
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phutatorius @lemmy.zip - 1day
And they still lost. So all we have is one more data point to consider when estimating the swing.
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aceshigh @lemmy.world - 2day
Slow news week?
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some_guy @lemmy.sdf.org - 1day
Dems are ineffective. The threat of "vote for us or it'll be worse" has stopped working. We need a new movement.
MicroWave in politics @lemmy.world
Democrats overperform by double digits in South Carolina election
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-overperform-double-digits-south-carolina-house-election-chuck-hightower-john-lastinger-11264249The Republicans won a special South Carolina House election on Tuesday, but the Democrats overperformed by double digits compared to their performance in the 2024 presidential election.
Republican John Lastinger won 62.3 percent of the vote in the election for the 88th district seat, beating Democrat Chuck Hightower, who secured 37.7 percent. This gave the Republicans a net win of +24.6 percent over the Democrats.
This represents an improved performance for the Democrats compared to the 2024 presidential election, when President Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the district by 67 percent to 32 percent, according to The State newspaper. In that election, the Republicans won with a net margin of +35 percentage points.
So, the Democrat candidate did better than the last election but still got absolutely annihilated. Woo. Yay. Happy Day.
This is such a non-news story for anyone but a DNC staffer it's ridiculous. Maybe someone wants to breathlessly report on how much better or worse the green party candidate did last election as long as we're talking about things that don't actually make any difference.
If you "outperform by double digits" and still lose by a double digit margin that just highlights how terrible you are, and how fucked we all are. Had they managed to win that seat or even get things close enough that the loss was in question that would be a news story, this is just reading political tea leaves.
Means nothing if the seat is still GOP
And the fun of statistics means could have been a 10 instead of a 5.
But even more meaningless when still a dem loss
And they still lost. So all we have is one more data point to consider when estimating the swing.
Slow news week?
Dems are ineffective. The threat of "vote for us or it'll be worse" has stopped working. We need a new movement.