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Politics reporter @19thnews. Past: @businessinsider. Always looking for the gender angle. Say hi [email protected]. gracepanetta.03 on Signal

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  2. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
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    RT @MattZeitlin: blue state voters will pass school sports laws, voter id, and affirmative action bans at the ballot box red state voters will expand medicaid, raise the minimum wage, and protect abortion rights
    David Weigel @daveweigel
    Hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians voted for Dems then voted for a trans sports ban. Having that option on the ballot let voters separate their policy preference from their R/D vote. MGP's opponent ran on his support for the initiative - it passed in her district while she flattened him.
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  3. David Weigel✓@daveweigel
    Hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians voted for Dems then voted for a trans sports ban. Having that option on the ballot let voters separate their policy preference from their R/D vote. MGP's opponent ran on his support for the initiative - it passed in her district while she flattened him.
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  4. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    Yes, this election was about high prices/Iran/Trump. But in many ways, it was a lot about gender too
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    Lots of talk about how Vance is saddled with the albatross of the Iran War — his main domestic policy priority of encouraging young people to get married + have kids younger to combat falling birthrates has also not landed especially well, even on the right, as exemplified by the viral exchange from his TCU town hall
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  6. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    How far did the blue wave go? A special education teacher named Elizabeth Holmes beat the Florida state rep who sponsored the bill to rename Palm Beach International Airport after Trump, in a Trump +10 seat in Palm Beach County
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  7. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
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    I spent the weekend before the election reporting from her district in Palm Beach County
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  8. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    "The ideological clowns are out.  The patriotic cowboys are in — with testosterone testing on top," @SecWar declared in September. Then, young men swung left by double digits. My look at how the right tried and failed to make the midterms a referendum on masculinity:
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  9. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    The fun continues for House sickos with two Louisiana House seats going to a December 12 runoff — I'll be very curious to see what happens in Julia Letlow's old district after her very narrow win in the Senate race #LA05
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  10. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    Humbled and grateful to have received the honor from the American people. I will never let you down!
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  11. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    So Iowa Republicans who went into this election holding both US Senate seats, all 4 US House seats and a trifecta in the state government rigged the election….against themselves?
    Kari Lake @KariLake
    No way in hell. Iowa did not vote for communism because of gas prices (that were the same or less than under previous admin) or a war to end a nuclear threat (w/ no boots on the ground). I know Iowa. Iowa raised me. Iowa educated me. The math isn’t mathing here. Let’s audit this election to make sure the results are honest before we hand over the Hawkeye state and America to Communists. Do not certify until you VERIFY the vote.
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  12. Kari Lake✓@KariLake
    No way in hell. Iowa did not vote for communism because of gas prices (that were the same or less than under previous admin) or a war to end a nuclear threat (w/ no boots on the ground). I know Iowa. Iowa raised me. Iowa educated me. The math isn’t mathing here. Let’s audit this election to make sure the results are honest before we hand over the Hawkeye state and America to Communists. Do not certify until you VERIFY the vote.
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  13. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    It is kind of funny how we're hearing nary a peep from the "repeal the 19th" crowd after it turns out that young men had the biggest leftward shift. Maybe they'll pivot to pushing to repeal the 26th Amendment instead...
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    RT @aaaronson: Helena Foulkes will be the first US state governor whose first name is another state's capital since Lincoln Chafee, who was the first since Lincoln Almond All three just so happen to be governors of Rhode Island
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  17. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    In 2024, lots of voters in purple/red states voted for ballot measures restoring abortion access while voting for Rs that they agreed with on everything else. In 2026, voters in purple/blue states approved measures opposing trans athletes while voting for Ds they agreed with on everything else
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    Decision Desk HQ projects Yes wins the WA Initiative Measure No. IL26-638 Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Nonpartisan Ballot Question #DecisionMade: 9:04 PM EST Follow live results here:
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    RT @daveweigel: This is the funniest post-election discourse I can remember. Every Dem won so the fighting is about whose historic W margin was more historic. I’m seeing chair-throwing fights about whether Roy Cooper would have gotten as much applause at CrookedCon as Abdul El-Sayed.
    Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker
    What is the difference between Talarico and Sayed politically? Like what “direction” are we talking about here?
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    Decision Desk HQ projects Yes wins the WA Initiative Measure No. IL26-638 Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Nonpartisan Ballot Question #DecisionMade: 9:04 PM EST Follow live results here:
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  20. Will 🦥 Menaker@willmenaker
    What is the difference between Talarico and Sayed politically? Like what “direction” are we talking about here?
    Mickey Morant @mickeymorant
    The fact that Talarico outperformed El Sayed by such an ungodly massive margin in a state that should be much harder to flip tells you everything you need to know about what direction the Democrats need to head in.
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  21. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    Andy Biggs' daughter, Mylie Biggs, who said 2 years ago that she didn't think that "females should be in office" but then ran for office anyway, is now trailing her Dem opponent by 2 points in a Trump +18 state Senate seat
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    RT @samstein: NEW/EXCLUSIVE/MUST CREDIT: We crunched the data, and Democrats put up Saddam Hussein numbers in Cheesecake Factory districts, flipping MANY.
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    A Dem source points out that her loss would give Dems a supermajority in the AZ Senate
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  24. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
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    RT @AndrewSolender: For what it's worth, Dunlap is about as far from a "recruit" as you can get. When he ran against Jared Golden he was basically denounced by every wing of the party. When Golden retired the DCCC openly supported another candidate over him:
    Josh Barro @jbarro
    This just goes to further reflect what a recruiting error Matt Dunlap was: Literally no Democrat lost on Tuesday in a bluer district than the one where he lost.
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  25. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    To hear Republicans tell it, the worst thing a Democratic candidate this year could be — short of a socialist — was low T. But voters didn't buy it. My analysis of the masculinity/looksmaxxing midterms
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  26. Josh Barro✓@jbarro
    This just goes to further reflect what a recruiting error Matt Dunlap was: Literally no Democrat lost on Tuesday in a bluer district than the one where he lost.
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  27. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
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    #TX23 is a prime example: Tony Gonzales resigned amid misconduct allegations. The Republican running to replace him had a long history of degrading women + spent much of his campaign insulting his opponent's weight & appearance. She beat him in a Trump +15 seat anyway
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  28. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    The 2026 version of Kamala Harris’ infamous moment on The View when she couldn’t come up with something they’d have done differently than Biden
    Misha Linnehan @mishalinnehan
    In many ways, this was the most telling moment of the cycle - Collins was directly asked if she could think of a time where her dissent actually made a difference and functionally admitted that she couldn't.
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  29. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    Have had this tweet bookmarked for 5+ years, it really was prophetic:
    Conner Hafen @Conblob
    I think the biggest problem with Rs and the suburbs right now (and probably going forward) is that the suburban voters hate weird shit. And things on the Republican side of the aisle (because of Trump) have gotten especially fucking weird.
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  30. Misha Linnehan@mishalinnehan
    In many ways, this was the most telling moment of the cycle - Collins was directly asked if she could think of a time where her dissent actually made a difference and functionally admitted that she couldn't.
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  31. Conner Hafen@Conblob
    I think the biggest problem with Rs and the suburbs right now (and probably going forward) is that the suburban voters hate weird shit. And things on the Republican side of the aisle (because of Trump) have gotten especially fucking weird.
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  32. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
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    RT @jaredlholt: Have been sifting through election denialist spaces online the past couple days and these people are at each other's throats, spitting mad and hysterical that the admin got its lunch taken so bad that they didn't play along this time. We have not seen max crash-out yet.
    Rob @robrousseau
    2 days in and these guys are already Game Theory posting
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  33. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    A subject line that really just sums it all up
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    2 days in and these guys are already Game Theory posting
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    RT @SceneSallard: Bad when Republicans do it. Bad when Democrats do it. Cowardly and undemocratic across the board.
    Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis
    The Ohio Democratic Party told me I wasn’t allowed to talk to voters—even in the hallway of the hotel. Two aides escorted me back to the gated off press area. It was the first I had heard of this “rule.”
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  37. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
    If we think of this year’s elections as a 1994-level realignment but for Dems, perhaps 2026 will be thought of as the beginning of the end of the era of hyper-polarization and toxic, noxious politics that began with the 1994 midterms
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  38. Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis
    The Ohio Democratic Party told me I wasn’t allowed to talk to voters—even in the hallway of the hotel. Two aides escorted me back to the gated off press area. It was the first I had heard of this “rule.”
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  39. Grace Panetta✓@grace_panetta
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    Given how big a vulnerability perceived corruption was for Rs, maybe the post-Trump era will bring on a bipartisan consensus of cleaning up government, like the post-Watergate era, and of restoring civility in politics. It sounds crazy and far-fetched, but so was Dems having 55/56 Senate seats until a few days ago!
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    RT @AsteadWH: Angie Nixon didn’t win her Democratic primary because of a weak state party. Voters chose her over a candidate who outspent her 10 to 1. Also no one outside of the national media bubble saw her through the lens of “DSA,” which is part of the reason she beat back the GOP caricature of that label, and shows the limits of this sort of analysis. Actual people chose an actual person — let’s start there
    Clipping Wings @ClippingWings
    Ezra Klein on the electoral performance of El-Sayed, Peggy Flanagan and Angie Nixon: Angie Nixon—I don't think there's any reason to look at the results and say it was a brilliant strategic move to run the DSA candidate in Florida. Sometimes people take statements about electoral performance as moral statements about the worth of a candidate or the ideas. That's crazy in my view.
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    This also has major 2028 implications — it's really not clear that anyone explicitly running on being the successor to MAGA/Trumpism is going to be tenable in the kind of environment that produced the result on Tuesday
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  42. Clipping Wings✓@ClippingWings
    Ezra Klein on the electoral performance of El-Sayed, Peggy Flanagan and Angie Nixon: Angie Nixon—I don't think there's any reason to look at the results and say it was a brilliant strategic move to run the DSA candidate in Florida. Sometimes people take statements about electoral performance as moral statements about the worth of a candidate or the ideas. That's crazy in my view.
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