Eric Nelson

Progressive Politics, Board Games, and Heavy Metal. He/Him.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

I don't think #MNSEN is gonna be particularly close on the DFL side. Flanagan is gonna have a comfortable margin. She's held Craig to basically a draw in Dakota, is winning a lot of rural counties, and there is basically nothing in yet from CDs 4&5 where Flanagan should win big.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

@daakardior Yeah, I don't use this app much at all. Because **waves hands around wildly** all of the shit here.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

Over 47k votes in from CD2 and Peggy leads Angie there by 0.3%. I don't think Angie has a path without big margins from all over CD2. Looking good for Peggy. #mnsen

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

@hcttogo No, the 50% threshold remains out of ballots cast. It doesn't change with exhausted ballots. Once it gets down to 2 candidates the 50% threshold isnt needed and its just most votes. Exhausted ballots are bad for the trailing candidate.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

Looks like Melvin Carter will by my estimates go into the run off rounds with a 2-3% margin. Might not be enough if Chen and Hilborn voters ranked Her out of a desire for change. Though maybe they didnt rank neither Ner nor Carter. #StPaul

[j. patrick coolican @jpcoolican]

I got mad and wrote a column: A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation https://t.co/FdyNgZAPOR

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

One can't say with any seriousness that the Democratic Party has moved far left and the GOP has stayed the same when Dick Fricken Cheney is voting for the Democratic candidate for President.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

Republicans call people weird for being different.

Republicans ARE weird for wanting everyone to be the same.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

Had to make an edit to a picture from election night 2006. #HarrisWalz2024

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

I like the new state flag. The old one was awful, let go of nostalgia for it.

The new one is vexillologically solid.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

@dbrauer One top line from county level results, Hennepin had ~50k less votes than in 2018. That's about half of the total decline statewide.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

@dbrauer Working on it.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

@aaronklemz It's only 33, need to win SD3 too.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

Today in news:

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

This isn't to make light of the recent decision which is much more about controlling women than it is about "life".

The decision is an abomination and it does lay the groundwork to go even further in denying bodily autonomy.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

How many years until a millionaire can offer "fair market value" for a kidney and you can't turn them down because the SC has ruled their right to life supercedes your desire to still have two kidneys.

Maybe I'm being ridiculous. They wouldn't pay, that's for the poors.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

The Democratic party (as it exists today) is not the solution to this country's problems.

But the Republican party is definitely one of the biggest sources.

I'll use dems as a bandage while we work towards a real cure.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

I didn't have the words on Friday, so I didn't say anything then. But fuck them first for violating bodily autonomy, fuck them again for today, fuck them for no police accountability, and again for every other backwards ass decision they've handed down.

[Eric Nelson @erictnelson]

I had a teacher in HS (literally everyone's fave teacher) tell the whole class I wasn't going to heaven because I was an atheist. I was 16 so I didn't do anything about it.

I bet SCOTUS would say there was nothing wrong with that. Fuck 'em.