The 2026 election politics

MI Democratic primary goes to the progressive / socialist in a close race vs the centrist Democrat, perhaps showing which way the Democratic base is leaning ahead of midterms.

On the campaign finance side, El-Sayed has relied on individual donors, but some of those seem sketchy.

The primary had been a toss up on betting sites, until favoring the winner towards the end. He is currently favored to beat the incumbent Republican for the senate seat by a modest margin on the same sites.

https://kalshi.com/markets/kxprimaryplace/election-place-in-primaries/kxprimaryplace-senatemid26-2

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Dems will fight tooth and nail for anybody, even a socialist, if that means gaining a seat from the republicans.

It’s the same thing the Reps did, that’s how they got taken over by MAGA. If the Dems are taken over by DSA, this ride we’re all riding will get even more bumpy.

Just came across an article on this subject:

it references this, with the full list:

https://www.cato.org/blog/government-ownership-stakes-companies-becoming-routine-under-trump

Yes, It is a bad idea.

Just curious, are any other ideas being implemented by the current administration also bad, or is this the only one?

Democrat prospects from Nate Silver on midterm Senate / House odds. Theirs to lose, but looking like they might rise to the occasion.

Election security in MN needs some work is working as intended.

*Election worker says, ‘You’re the ID,’ referring to the registered voter serving as identification for the people they are vouching for.

Election worker confirms O’Keefe’s question about unregistered voters being vouched for: ‘I can vouch for them. They are not registered… That’s okay. That’s fine. Yeah!’*

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More RCV hijinx in today’s Alaska primary

Democrats use RCV to confuse voters. It’s the only way they can win elections in moderate states like Alaska.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-alaska-dan-sullivan/2026/08/18/id/1266437/

Alaska election officials initially disqualified Dan J. Sullivan after concluding his candidacy was not filed in good faith and was intended to confuse voters.

Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews reversed that decision, ruling election officials lacked authority to impose an additional “good-faith” qualification and finding the state’s claim that Dan J. Sullivan intended to confuse voters was not supported by a preponderance of the evidence.

The Alaska Supreme Court upheld the ruling, putting Dan J. Sullivan back on Tuesday’s ballot.

Under Alaska’s election system, the top four finishers in the nonpartisan primary advance to November’s ranked-choice general election.

With 16 Senate candidates on Tuesday’s ballot, both men named Sullivan could potentially advance.

And you post another article that has nothing to do with RCV. The issue is 2 candidates with identicle names. It would be considered a problem regardless of the voting system being used.

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Latest election results in Alaska

The polls close at 1 am eastern time. Yet another Alaska weirdness. I guess I can’t blame the time on RCV.

Um, that’s 9PM local time. There is nothing weird about it.