Iowa Republican Supermajority Broken in Special Election

[Grogu]

Is this a sign of things to come? No more of the Republicans shoving things down Iowan’s throats like taxpayer funded private (parochial) school vouchers and anti-abortion legislation with their supermajority. It’s a step in the right direction.

Democrats Flip Key Seat In Iowa District That Trump Won By Double Digits

Catelin Drey's election also breaks a Republican supermajority in the Iowa state Senate.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Argent]

I posted about it earlier.

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[Grogu]

I posted about it earlier.

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Thank you for your link. Obviously, I didn’t see your topic and I wasn’t warned there already was a duplicate since I put it here in the Midwest subforum. I’ll join your thread and will let this die out.

 

[Peacenik]

Thank you for your link. Obviously, I didn’t see your topic and I wasn’t warned there already was a duplicate since I put it here in the Midwest subforum. I’ll join your thread and will let this die out.

But the other thread title wasn't as good. This one mentions the supermajority broken - very important.

 

[Peacenik]

I posted about it earlier.

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Your thread is different. It offers a discussion about an awesome Democrat running to win Lindsey Graham's Senate seat.

 

[Peacenik]

Could it be that Republican gerrymandering was spread too thin, too greedy?

There is a danger in pushing the gerrymandering envelope. If it's done too greedily, the margins are cut thinner and thinner. If public sentiment goes large against the in-power party, gerrymandered seats with thinner majorities can be flipped.

 

[mrjurrs]

Is this a sign of things to come? No more of the Republicans shoving things down Iowan’s throats like taxpayer funded private (parochial) school vouchers and anti-abortion legislation with their supermajority. It’s a step in the right direction.

Democrats Flip Key Seat In Iowa District That Trump Won By Double Digits

Catelin Drey's election also breaks a Republican supermajority in the Iowa state Senate.

www.huffpost.com

Inside the White House after these election results...

 

[upsideguy]

Could it be that Republican gerrymandering was spread too thin, too greedy?

There is a danger in pushing the gerrymandering envelope. If it's done too greedily, the margins are cut thinner and thinner. If public sentiment goes large against the in-power party, gerrymandered seats with thinner majorities can be flipped.

Absolutely.... it would be delightfully ironic if a few of those 5 new red seats in Texas flipped. The 2026 climate is not favoring the Republicans at all.... there likely will be a blue wave (assuming we have elections in 2026 and the elections are normal (there isn't some type of last minute voter roll purge)) so the re-districting could well backfire.

 

[ColdHardTruth]

Finally, the repukes are on their way out.

 

[Logophile]

Am I reading this right?? It's one seat. That's a big deal?? And the Republicans still have a huge majority. You folks really aren't hangin your hats on this, are ya??

 

[Grogu]

Am I reading this right?? It's one seat. That's a big deal?? And the Republicans still have a huge majority. You folks really aren't hangin your hats on this, are ya??

Reread my OP. One step at a time. It was a special election held on August 26, 2025 to replace a Republican State Senator who passed away. Breaking a supermajority to a governor by having a Democrat take a seat in a district that Trump took by 10%, and the deceased took by 10% over the Democratic incumbent in 2022 is good news for Democrats like me in Iowa.

Led by this governor, the Iowa House and Senate bypassed normal debate and procedure to ramrod their sham $1 billion over three years school voucher program (my taxpayer money going to people who can already afford to send their kids to private-parochial schools so they can prop up churches and religion) and their anti-abortion laws, all due to having a supermajority in both chambers. Not anymore.

So yeah, it’s a big deal to someone who calls Iowa home, namely me.

 

[Fearandloathing]

Could it be that Republican gerrymandering was spread too thin, too greedy?

There is a danger in pushing the gerrymandering envelope. If it's done too greedily, the margins are cut thinner and thinner. If public sentiment goes large against the in-power party, gerrymandered seats with thinner majorities can be flipped.

Gerrymandering works only if the majority fails to vote, as usual. With returns like 30% of all voters, all it takes is one charismatic fluke and you lose your majority.

And THAT'S the problem of a two party system - deliberately rigged to have one or the other of the upper classes represented - **** poor people.

Thus, American trends left and right and back again....never quite advancing on the progress scale.

I will not be surprised to see Trump & co re-introduce a form of slavery, in a program where "illegals" can work their way into legal status. The "Oakies" in the Great Depression (nothing great about it) were treated similarly, they had to pay to work by buying 'permits' since they were from out of state. They were white, mostly,but little more than slaves.

Trump would have loved those days....all those land grabbing foreclosures !!!

 

[Peacenik]

Gerrymandering works only if the majority fails to vote, as usual. With returns like 30% of all voters, all it takes is one charismatic fluke and you lose your majority.

And THAT'S the problem of a two party system - deliberately rigged to have one or the other of the upper classes represented - **** poor people.

Thus, American trends left and right and back again....never quite advancing on the progress scale.

I will not be surprised to see Trump & co re-introduce a form of slavery, in a program where "illegals" can work their way into legal status. The "Oakies" in the Great Depression (nothing great about it) were treated similarly, they had to pay to work by buying 'permits' since they were from out of state. They were white, mostly,but little more than slaves.

Trump would have loved those days....all those land grabbing foreclosures !!!

I would accept a compromise to allow working immigrants to pay an immigration tax for a number of years to earn the right to apply for citizenship.

Give 'em a moth to find full time 32 hour work. Then they pay to stay. After say 20 years of this, they can apply for citizenship. They must register. If they don't work, they get deported. Seems like a good compromise.