wapoliticalyapper.bsky.social
@wapoliticalyapper.bsky.social
Leftist from WA. Queer AF. Every couple years I find myself unable to resist yapping about elections and politics. Looks like 2026 is not the year for that to change.
Been getting a lot of mailers for Sabio-Howell in the late stretch but so far she's being smoked by Jamie Pedersen. We'll see how much better the later returns are for Sabio-Howell (Seattle always sees a large left-shift in late returns) but she'll need to start far better than this in the general
August 5, 2026 at 4:01 AM
King finally in and lol the fucking terrible lefty challengers to Smith are highly unlikely to advance. He'll probably be going up against a republican and he'll win again just as easily as he would against either Chaudhry or Sawant.
August 5, 2026 at 3:57 AM
So it's early vote but dems currently add up to >50% of the primary vote out of Cowlitz county (trump won this county by 20 points in 2024)

I imagine it'll get redder but cool to see
August 5, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's just a smattering of returns from Cowlitz and Wahkiakum rn but I'm already not confident in Hennrich's chances...
August 5, 2026 at 3:07 AM
@secstatewa.bsky.social @stevehobbs.bsky.social please fix this? This is not a great experience at all lmfao
August 5, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Oh no did she find out I donated to Hennrich
July 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
what the fuck is this lmfao

I mean she's running a campaign which is good, I just find this funny, it's literally just a linktree with ai in its name lol
March 15, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Today's louisiana house election is rather interesting. It's in the conservative areas/suburbs of Baton Rouge, an incredibly racially (and politically) polarized city. And it's actually zoomed left since 2016; Harris improved on Biden in its lines! And dems consistently improved in Senate races too.
March 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
LRT: For a blood-red district, it does seem like margins are quite swingy - dems have gotten anywhere between 30 and >41% in generals. Given that, the demographics, and special election environments, yeah I could see the right candidate making it close. A W would be an earthquake still
March 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Talking about cumulative house swing
March 8, 2026 at 6:40 AM
It probably doesn't help that a bunch of internals got released late for narrative-building, but even the chronological list looks like a mess. _Maybe_ the late oscillations are between the Allred allegations and then the Colbert thing? But all I see is a total mess tbh
March 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM
interesting notice I only now saw. republican numbers may be undercounted somewhat. Still hoping dems "win" the primary turnout but I guess if they only got 40% of the turnout in 2018 then there's no reason not to celebrate anything >=40% when all's said and done!
February 27, 2026 at 10:07 PM
6-1-1 took me like 5 minutes lol and is far cleaner than what their map proposes. I'm not saying it'd make the difference but I do feel like it'd have some marginal affects that COULD matter for a state like CO
February 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
well it was fun while it lasted
February 11, 2026 at 1:45 AM
UHHHHHHM...
February 11, 2026 at 1:40 AM
god I forgot how terribly stupid the KY-SEN polls were in 2020. McGrath got 38% of the vote! FL-SEN is gonna be insufferable
January 27, 2026 at 6:21 PM