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What state & local election results are you following? (self.politics)

submitted 2 weeks ago by spit_evil_olive_tips to c/politics

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everyone is focused on the Presidential race, for obvious reasons, and to a lesser extent on control of the House and Senate.

but there's thousands of downballot races across the country. are there any that you're watching / particularly interested in?

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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My state (Colorado)

Repealed our 18 year old ban on same sex marriage (yay).
Failed to pass ranked choice voting (boo). My impression from talking to folks is that many people (especially older people) don't really know what it is and when they read it on the ballot they feel like it's weird and complicated.

My city (Boulder) is a liberal bubble and predictably our local issues are all disagreements between upper middle class+, over 40 property owning NIMBYs vs. progressives who care about affordable housing and the homeless. Literally every city council candidate's platform is EXACTLY the same, except on housing / homelessness issues. Every election, I google all the judges and city council candidates and vote for the ones who seem least NIMBY. The judges are almost always NIMBYs. The city council members I vote for almost always loose.

If the CU students who were eligible to vote in Boulder would do so, this wouldn't happen.