Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins governorship in Virginia replacing Republican Glenn Youngkin

"Virginia is home to around 320,000 federal workers and hundreds of thousands of federal contractors."

Guess bouncing paychecks isn't a winning strategy

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5589144/election-results-virginia-governor-spanberger

Dems also won governorship in NJ

#USpol #VApol #NPR #USElection2025 #AbigailSpanberger

#GovtShutdown aka #BlameMikeJohnson

Colorado votes to feed children and improve pay for the cafeteria workers feeding them

Two propositions are poised to pass, LL and MM, that approve $100 million in spending paid for by small taxes on households earning more than $300,000

Props to Colorado voters for actually helping children

https://www.cpr.org/2025/11/04/proposition-ll-mm-funding-free-school-meals-results/

#USpol #COpol #FeedChildren #USElection2025 #NPR

Propositions LL and MM, which would increase funding for free school meals, ahead in early returns

https://election.cpr.org/iframe.php?iframe=true&header=false&date=20251104&group=propositions-ll-mm election results election news Early

Colorado Public Radio

Californians approved redrawing 2026 congressional maps to counter Texas gerrymandering

In California the people decided the districts, they decide their representatives

In Texas, Missouri and North Carolina the legislatures gerrymandered who gets represented and who doesn't

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5587742/election-results-california-proposition-50-redistricting

#USpol #CApol #TXpol #USElection2025 #USElection2026 #Prop50 #NPR

Mamdani defeats Cuomo again, winning NY, NY mayoral seat

"more than two million votes were cast — the first time since 1969"

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5597788/election-results-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor

#ZohranMamdani #NYpol #USpol #USElection2025