Open Thread: The Morning After Election Day 2025
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With the election yesterday of Millennial Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s mayor, generational change in Democratic Party politics has shifted more firmly away from Boomers.
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With the youngest Boomers in their mid-60s, it’s time — not to mention other reasons like a lifetime of baggage impeding effective governance.
This is an open thread with an emphasis on state and local elections. More details about elections across the country will be published here as updates throughout the day. In the mean time, discuss election results in your state and municipality here; what are the implications of the elections’ results, and what blowback might we expect? What effects may these elections have on the 2026 mid-term elections?
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Thank you.
This is one of the coolest things from yesterday: Dems broke a Supermajority in Mississippi.
Worked as a pollworker in yesterday’s elections.
Now locally, there was pretty much nothing on the ballot — a nonpartisan City Council election. Two open seats, only one of which had a candidate, so the other was filled via writein. That meant a lot of extra work for us pollworkers to close things out, but it was overall a slow day.
If you have any worries at all about the mechanics of elections, I *strongly* recommend you try working the polls. It is very affirming to see the process in action, and to work together with other people in your community to make everything function fairly. It’s a 15 hour day, but I always come away energized from seeing local democracy in action.
We held our three Supreme Court seats in Pennsylvania. The SC has been a bulwark for Democratic principles in PA, with mixed results. If they will now allow Philadelphia to pass sensible gun regulation, preserve abortion rights, and protect open and fair elections, please, I will be ecstatic.
Virginia; blue