David Jarman's Profile
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, 50 State Strategy Project, DKE Ticker
Diaries published: 384 (4 days since last diary on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 07:01 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 3015 (1 day since last comment on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 11:18 AM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 7863
Total Comment Ratings: 6105
Most Recommended Diary: Immigration, Democrats, redistricting: None of those caused Eric Cantor's loss, 265 comments, 311 recommends
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One thing compounding the pain of the 2016 election—on top of, y’know, the actual consequences of losing—was the way that the loss seemed to come out of nowhere. Polls, for the most part, showed Hillary Clinton winning, both at the national level and...
by David Jarman
 101 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 07:01 AM PDT
with 57 Recommends
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If you stop and visualize Philadelphia, what first comes to mind might be some stereotypically masculine imagery: Rocky running up the steps of the art museum, burly guys tearing into cheesesteaks, ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon May 29, 2017 at 06:39 PM PDT
with 45 Recommends
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Daily Kos Elections’ “Most District” series flies over to Florida’s 1st congressional district for Memorial Day weekend: it’s the district that has the highest percentage of veterans. ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon May 29, 2017 at 01:59 PM PDT
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Ed Royce, the Republican who represents California’s 39th congressional district in Orange County, may be the most vulnerable member of Congress that you’ve never heard of. And that’s despite holding the high-profile position of chair of the House...
by David Jarman
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on Tue May 23, 2017 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 86 Recommends
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If you’d told me before the 2016 election that the Democratic candidate was going to finally win Orange County, California (the most legendary Republican stronghold of all), as well as Fort ...
by David Jarman
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on Sun May 14, 2017 at 10:29 AM PDT
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It’s not unusual to see confusion about the roles that various Democratic Party campaign committees play, though it seems to have peaked recently following Democrat James Thompson’s unexpectedly close loss in the special House election in Kansas’...
by David Jarman
264 comments
on Mon Apr 17, 2017 at 07:21 AM PDT
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- I wanted to look at trends from 2012 to 2016 in a different way. Generally I see maps that show a change in percentage. I wanted to see the change in raw votes. I wanted to see where Clinton received more votes than Obama, less, and the same for Romney...10 comments 22 Recs
- In 2015, as the United Kingdom decided whether their prime minister would be David Cameron or Ed Miliband, no one could have imagined what the next two years would bring to British politics. The rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the Brexit vote to leave the...125 comments 166 Recs
- I’ve been pretty interested in gubernatorial races recently and I was struck by how politics in the south often moves in one direction only, so if you do about as well twice, the differences probably reflect long term changes, rather than short term...58 comments 65 Recs
- Tuesday night, Democrats won two legislative special elections in Trump territory, flipping the seats from Republican control. The results were stunning and dramatic. In the case of New York’s 9th Assembly District, the margin shifted an astounding 39...24 comments 97 Recs
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2017 Daily Kos Expands Political Program for Redistricting Fight Organization hires Carolyn Fiddler for statehouse coverage and media relations WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Daily Kos Founder and Publisher Markos...36 comments 129 Recs
- Candidate Barack Obama uttered these words on Feb. 5, 2008: “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama President...68 comments 233 Recs
- Daily Kos Elections' project to calculate the 2016 presidential results for every state legislative seat in the nation hits Iowa, which swung very sharply against the Democrats: Barack Obama carried the state 52-46 in 2012, but Donald Trump won it...33 comments 35 Recs
- SPINELESS REPUBLICANS MAKE US SICK This weekend, reading through several posts, including front-pagers, here on Daily Kos a common theme popped up either in the pieces themselves or in the comments. When are "fence-sitting" or "moderate" or...60 comments 26 Recs
- The last few months, my time to diary on Daily Kos hasn’t been as active as I was in 2014, 2015. It isn’t that I am disenchanted, it is just time is sometimes divided. This weekend, I’ll be spending time traveling to South Dakota for their state...480 comments 475 Recs
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