#election coverage

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

This is clearly NOT an issue of people voting third party.

This clearly IS an issue of people voting Republican.

Let's focus our time and energy where it is warranted by the facts.

[alexfierrowannabee]

Maxine Bernier, the PPC candidate, was defeated in his own riding

[trauma-tits]

Her makes history as first woman and Hmong American elected St. Paul mayor 

DFLer Kaohly Her, who worked for Mayor Melvin Carter’s office in his first term, was a late addition to the St. Paul mayor’s race. She beat

St. Paul has elected its first ever Hmong mayor and its first ever woman to lead the city.

Rep. Kaohly Her won Tuesday’s election over incumbent Mayor Melvin Carter after a tabulation of second-choice votes.

Her victory makes not only history for the St. Paul mayor’s office, but also makes the entire leadership of the city — which also has a city council made up of all women.

She beat out Carter and three other challengers — Yan Chen, Adam Dullinger and Mike Hilborn.

"My family came here as refugees. Never in their wildest dreams would I be standing here today accepting the position of mayor, mayor of the city that gave them the opportunity to live the American dream,” Her told supporters early Wednesday morning following her victory. “I am doing this work for them, for you and for the future of this great city.”

[theoverstimulated]

From sitwithwhit on IG

[windsails]

why don't we just use google forms or something to come up with a better candidate than all these prehistoric bozos in washington??? why not use a series of polls on social media or something to organize a method of determining a better write-in-candidate?

of course, i don't actually believe in representative democracy, i believe in collaboration. there's a huge difference. democracy is a sort of public theater, whereas collaboration actually asks your thoughts

we could build some kind of online polling system to pick a candidate the media doesn't want us to pick. anyone at all, as long as we all agree on it. but again - you can't make everyone think the same things, so you'd better pick somebody who can hold multiple contradictory thoughts in their head at once

i'm not going to set this up. it's all you, if you even care

[melanelanelanie]

[owlmylove]

watching election coverage is just [dramatic music] the results are IN ladies and gentlemen, and those results are: too CLOSE. to Call (repeated 7x times) now it’s back to you on the east end of the studio, and they cut to some over-caffeinated frazzle of a man with his shirtsleeves bunched up sweating in front of a giant screen that just looks like

[ceevee5]