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Originally posted by 12131:
The leftists will spin this as it was much closer than the GOP wanted blah blah blah whatever. Well, you assholes still came up short.

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Originally posted by Tn226:
... Thank God.
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Don't follow Tennessee politics but the election result stuns me. I'd wanted to visit Nashville now I think I'll pass on that.

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Originally posted by Tn226:
Republican Van Epps has been declared the winner over democrat Aftyn Behn by a 9% margin. Thank God.

Van Epps won every single county in the district by a substantial margin. The one exception was Davidson County where Behn took 78%. That was over a third her total vote count. She got most of the rest from two counties near Nashville known to be overrun by transplants from the usual blue state disasters.

Nashville - the city she bragged about hating amongst other trash talk. Apparently the liberal infested trash heap is well, liberal, i.e. nuts.

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Originally posted by 12131:
The leftists will spin this as it was much closer than the GOP wanted blah blah blah whatever. Well, you assholes still came up short.

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If the Democrat candidate had actually been somewhat moderate rather than the raging leftwing nut job she is, it likely would have been an uncomfortably closer race.

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Originally posted by sig2392:
It never surprises me how people vote against their own interests and safety.

The clip I saw Aftyn Behn said she hated Nashville.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZkTqIpUzWI

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Originally posted by 12131:
The leftists will spin this as it was much closer than the GOP wanted blah blah blah whatever. Well, you assholes still came up short.

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The media will make a big deal about how much closer the TN-7 special was than the Presidential as some kind of referendum, but this is fundamentally dumb. Don't fall for it.

I'm probably the only person who’s going to explain the reality to you and no media outlet is going to have me on, so you'll have to read it right here.

In the 2024 Congressional Election:

A strong long-time incumbent ran with zero primary (Mark Green) and outspent the Democrat 2.2m to 1.2m and there was no outside money involved on either side. Green won by 21.5 percent.

In the 2024 Presidential Election in this district, effectively zero money was spent by either Presidential campaign and Republicans were energized in a state they were always expected to win.

In the 2025 Special Election:

Republicans fought a brutal and very nasty primary and the eventual winner Van Epps walked away with barely 50 percent of the vote.

The Democrat raised a lot of money and had substantial outside investment in turnout in the urban parts of the district. This is evidenced by the largest swing being in the most black/Democrat county Davidson which Behn won by 56 points.

When both the D and the R campaigns are fully funded and have strong outside support, this district is more competitive than when there is minimal spending here. But even with the D getting full support, it’s still an L for them, so in the general election this money will instead go to more competitive districts and Republican money will also go elsewhere. Republicans will be better united as time heals divisions from the primary and the typical margin of victory will return.

One factor here is that Dem money does a better job turning their voters out than Republican money does turning our voters out and that’s a discussion for another day.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
there is a price for being stupid

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Originally posted by calugo:

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
there is a price for being stupid

Yup its mind boggling and people pay it everyday with high cost of living, high property taxes, high crime, high fees, declining schools and cities and while people complain about all these things they blindly continue to vote for the sane people and policies so nothing gets better just worse.