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Six Election Takeaways: We Voted! Now What?; Winning the House Is Not Nothing; Last night's elections; 4 things to expect from a new, Trumpier, more polarized Congress; Adelson, who donated over $100 million to the GOP, 'watching' results with Trump; 7 Key Takeaways From Election Night

We Voted! Now What?

What All This Blue Amounts To

What All This Blue Amounts To

Kevin Baker: Winning the House Is Not Nothing

Opinion | Winning the House Is Not Nothing

Opinion | Winning the House Is Not Nothing The bumbling, exasperating Democratic Party claws back one branch of government.

Last night's elections

Our mayor should take heed. It will be interesting to see what the democrats upstate decide as to mayoral control. 

  

On Nov 7, 2018, at 10:23 AM, <leonie...@gmail.com> <leonie...@gmail.com> wrote:

Last night’s elections were fascinating. The NY State Senate is clearly in Democratic control for the first time in years – the Dems only needed to flip one seat and they flipped eight.  This will likely have a substantial impact on education funding and charter school policies in the state.

 

Lots of progressive new Governors won across the country who strongly support public education, and of course the House returned to Democratic control, aided by three House seats that flipped in NYS: Brindisi, Delgado and Max Rose here in NYC. 

In nearby Newark, the voters approved a return to an elected school board vs. mayoral control, with the support of the Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka who said , “I do not want that power,” he said. “I want the people to have that power.” Too bad our Mayor isn’t that evolved.

https://chalkbeat.org/posts/newark/2018/11/06/in-referendum-newark-voters-decide-to-stick-with-an-elected-school-board/

And in news that is special to many of us here in NYC, Khem Irby, former parent leader in D 13, won her school board election in Guilford County NC:

https://www.greensboro.com/news/government/elections/irby-wins-in-guilford-school-board-th-district-all-other/article_c4cce98e-f279-52e3-8f67-68758a23be71.html

Current school board members held their seats in most of the Guilford County Board of Education races based on complete but unofficial returns.  The one exception is the 6th District, where Democratic challenger Khem Irby won in a tight race over incumbent Wes Cashwell, according to complete but unofficial results.

Chicago will also likely return to an elected school board after more than twenty years of mayoral control, as approved last session by both houses of  the IL Legislature and their newly elected Governor supports it.

Yay democracy in action.  And congrats to Khem!!!! 

 

 

 

Here are 4 things to expect from a new, Trumpier, more polarized Congress

Analysis | Here are 4 things to expect from a new, Trumpier, more polarized Congress

Analysis | Here are 4 things to expect from a new, Trumpier, more polari... Gridlock, anyone?

 Adelson, who donated over $100 million to the GOP, 'watching' results with Trump

Adelson, who donated over $100 million to the GOP, 'watching' results with Trump

Adelson, who donated over $100 million to the GOP, 'watching' results wi... ***

7 Key Takeaways From Election Night

Supporters for Sharice Davids, a Democratic House candidate for Kansas, react as she is declared the winner during a watch party in Olathe, Kan., on Tuesday. Davids defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder. (Colin E. Braley/AP)   There are many ways to read the results from elections across the country Tuesday. And there will be lots of spin in the coming days about what it all means, but here are seven ways to cut through the noise and put what happened in context:   It was a Democratic wave in the House, and that is a very big deal A lot of centrist Democrats will be headed to Congress. That presents an opportunity and a challenge Trump and the GOP will take some solace in an expanded Senate majority  Republicans who distanced themselves from Trump didn't fare so well  Democrats made gains at the state level, but not as much as they wanted There will be a record number of women in the House The polls were wrong — and right – again Read More — Domenico Montanaro, NPR’s lead political editor   Here’s what else to look out for: House Democrats vowed to 'drain the swamp' and bring 'accountability' to Washington A divided Congress is likely to extend the heated battles of the 2018 campaign into the presidential election in 2020