IDK about this as a bellwether for the following year.
Is there any research on how well-correlated "nonpartisan in name only" elections tend to be with partisan ones?
Actually when is the last time the D-aligned candidate did NOT win Wisconsin Superintendent Of Public Instruction? (It looks to me like Herbert Glover, John Benson, Elizabeth Burmaster, and of course Tony Evers were the "Dane County" candidates...)
IDK about before that. But if, so, man, talk about "issue ownership".
Democrats should try to get non-partisan positions on issues where they have issue ownership everywhere possible...sort of like how Republicans have uh, district attorneys?
Here's another question, why the hell did voters turn out the incumbent superintendent of public education in 1981. Google is not promising...
Well, what does "conservative" mean. Nathan Lane was afraid of coming out in the 90s. You didn't have literal card-carrying socialists winning political office in cities all over the country. You didn't have hundreds of legal marijuana stores all over Michigan.
Yes this was happening all the time at the BET awards in the less-conservative 80s and 90s.
I'm a big fan of Matt Baume, all of his videos are like, "here's the months of painstaking negotiation that it took to have a gay character on a sitcom in 1995". Now there's a trans star on "Jeopardy" (median viewing age, roughly 157).
Hm maybe Democrats could walk some picket lines, funnel a ton of money into infrastructure, put some aggressive antitrust regulators into the FTC, oversee tight labor markets and income growth concentrated in the bottom quartiles, that should fix it.
Plus finally running on legal weed, pic unrelated.
I don't have an answer, IDK if there is an answer other than "wait for something bad to happen under Trump and run on that, again", which is also what Trump did to Biden/Harris, but you know...
One thing I think people don't realize is how relatively new the highly-focused-Electoral-College campaign is. In 1976 for example, 20 states were within five points.
So obviously if 20 states are within five points, you have to basically run almost a de facto national campaign. Even in 1996, Bob Dole made a great show out of hitting up 21 states in person at the end of the campaign.
That both campaigns would more or less agree on what the fewer than ten "tipping point states" are and focus their campaign activity overwhelmingly on those, I feel like that's basically a post-2000 thing. Maybe I'm wrong.
"A bunch of broadly satirical upper-class jerks who are parasitic about this one rich guy are going to get shown up by a WOC who seems to be a supporting character but then becomes the surprise protagonist of the movie, and also the biggest jerk is the killer."
I liked both "Knives Out" movies but "Glass Onion" is a little like...too close to the first one. RJ basically has a blank check with these.
IDK how much RJ influences the individual plots of "Poker Face", he's not the showrunner, but those also got a bit samey pretty quickly. Ellen Barkin and Cherry Jones had virtually identical exits just one episode apart.
Suddenly you have one fewer movie where Anakin gets to be "a good friend, the best pilot in the galaxy" etc, and the romance is just...real weird on both sides...
Like the prequels are three movies of, allegedly, "the Anakin story", and he's basically a different character in the first one, so you waste one-third of your runtime.