Mapczar

Like to make U.S. election and other interesting maps. I also sometimes comment on U.S. politics, but I’m certainly not a future pundit

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The 2008 U.S. House Elections by county. Democrats won the popular vote by 8.6%, winning a 79 seat majority. A lot of incumbents of both parties were popular, as you can see many district boundaries in this map

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@NE02Dem Yep, if he wins, decent chance that a lot of not-so-great legislation could pass. If he's the nominee, gonna vote for Harding in the general to keep Cavanaugh in the unicameral.

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@gavinbena Yep, it’s kind of a funny local election

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Despite falling short in 2023, Vanessa Emlich was able to get elected to the Lincoln Airport Authority in 2025, defeating retired engineer Tom Trumble by 14 percent. Emlich had been appointed to the airport authority in September of 2023 after a vacancy appeared.

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This continues Lincoln's streak of electing Democratic mayors since 1999, despite lagging in voter registration. This still shows up in other elections, as the Republican aligned candidates for Airport Authority won by 15% as well this last Tuesday.

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Here is a map of the swing. The area around the airport swung towards Emlich by quite a bit, but overall there doesn't really appear to be a defining pattern of a swing (which makes sense due to its nonpartisan nature)

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Here is a side-by-side comparison of the two races. There was also city council elections on the same ballot earlier this year, which I will post soon

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@Speeding_m That would be nice, the ORBT does a good job connecting westroads, uno, and downtown. Think an extension of that could work that would service every hour or so from like 10-7 could help a lot

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The streetcar was unpopular but even I am surprised that Stothert lost by as much as she did. I think it helps that Ewing has been Treasurer of Douglas County and was able to frame Stothert as a liberal spender. Hopefully he can make progress on fixing the roads and sinkhole

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Though the office is technically nonpartisan, John Ewing (D) defeated Mayor Jean Stothert (R) in Omaha tonight--as of when I pulled the data, he's up nearly 13 points.

Biden and Harris each won Omaha proper by about 19 points, though it's seemed a little redder down-ballot.

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@Speeding_m Yeah, the lack of transit in western Omaha is awful but the layout and sprawl makes it difficult to expand west of 680. Honestly, I’d be happy with bus that runs consistently between Omaha and Lincoln

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@Speeding_m Honestly if he just fixed the potholes he will be popular. Maybe he will be able to do something about crossroads as well

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@Speeding_m I’m hopeful about it. Hoping they do expansion similar to Lincoln (more mixed-use neighborhoods) and make it sustainable in the long-term. Probably will need to look into it more though

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@BBBMblog Yeah, her husband had also died the year beforehand. To be honest, I don't think Stothert is too upset about losing reelection and wouldn't be surprised if she only ran again due to party pressure

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@Speeding_m I had forgotten about the snowstorm, but how Omaha handled it vs Council Bluffs certainly made her look incompetent. I agree on the other things though, her ads she ran at the end probably caused more Dems to turn out against her

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@CTIronman It did end up being a pretty nonpartisan race. Stothert had endorsements from the Buffets and a couple of Democratic state senators while Ewing was endorsed by Mike McDonnell and a former Republican mayor of Omaha

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@Speeding_m The R brand certainly didn't help. Stothert being in St. Louis a lot also probably hurt her as well

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@MingAutocrat It's 1924

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Crazy how similar the vote totals were in these two elections

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@mizzoumalek23 Would’ve had to be 115, the election happened in 1924, idk why the wiki box says 1930

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VA: Abigail Spanberger / Winsome Sears
WA: Bob Ferguson / Jaime Herrara Butler
WV: Joe Manchin / Patrick Morrisey
WI: Tony Evers / Mike Gallagher
WY: Dave Freudenthal / Liz Cheney

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Gubernatorial elections in each state that would be the most competitive as of now
AL: Terri Sewell / Roy Moore
AK: Mary Peltola / Nancy Dahlstrom
AZ: Katie Hobbs / Karrin Taylor Robson
AR: Mike Ross / Jim Bob Duggar
CA: Karen Bass / Steve Poizner

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PA: Bob Casey / Tim DeFloor
RI: Sabina Matos / Alan Fung
SC: Brian Gaines / Nancy Mace
SD: Billie Sutton / Jason Ravnsborg
TN: John Mark Windle / Andy Ogles
TX: Vicente Gonzalez / Ken Paxton
UT: Jim Matheson / Phil Lyman
VT: David Zuckerman / John Rodgers