Need some good news? Democrat Monica Kurth won her Iowa House Race.

[FSogol]

It's the first Democratic victory of 2017. Martin O'Malley has been spending weekends in Iowa helping build the base.

Kurth defeated Republican candidate Mike Gonzales 72% to 27% in the west Davenport district. She received 2081 votes to Gonzales’ 784 votes. There were nine write-in votes.

[elleng]

1. Yes, with Governor O'Malley's help.

from him: from Martin O'Malley:

'Yesterday, now-Representative Monica Kurth won her special election to the Iowa State House seat. Our Party's first victory in 2017. I was glad to campaign with Monica in Davenport on Saturday.

I need your help so that together we can continue to rebuild our party at the local and state and local level up.

Donate $25 or whatever you can so that we can keep electing Democrats like Monica Kurth to resist Trump.
Onwards,'

Martin

https://martinomalley.com/donate/

[FSogol]

2. Hi Ellen.

[elleng]

3. HI, FS.

I'm surprised to see positives for MO'M from fb friends, former Clarkies, who supported hrc. I kept my mouth shut on that matter, and they're coming around! Imagine that!

[FSogol]

4. He's still doing ground work. I suspect that his Boston College Law Classes

are going to turn out a lot of future leaders in our party.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Wow!

The Conservative worm has turned. This one is a big win for the Iowa Dems.

[nycbos]

6. I might be behind the eight ball but I thought this was already a Dem seat and we held it.

Why is this so big.

[rpannier]

9. I have relatives in Davenport (not this district)

This was a special election. The turnout was expected to be lower. The margin was also larger than expected as well
It was an expected Dem win and it was

[Blue_true]

7. Not intending to be a Debbie downer.

But, the district looks heavily blue. We need to put in same or more effort into swing or lean republican districts.

[rpannier]

10. True

But the turnout and margin were both bigger than expected

[FSogol]

13. Only on DU would someone look at the bad side of a Democrat winning. Welcome

to DU, I guess.

[gratuitous]

8. I'll take it

I don't know how many voters are in each state house district, but look at that: The seat was decided by a grand total of fewer than 3,000 voters. Get. Out. The. Vote. The more voters, the more better for the majority party, which is the Democrats.

[ffr]

11. Democrats and only democrats

until such time as democrats have a supermajority. Then, once the ass-backward republican agenda is silenced, we can get our party straightened out from the position of strength, rather than from weakness and repair (the damage done, as now, where we let the R win). Doh!

[mdbl]

14. we're better off straightening out the party now

not waiting for something to happen.

[eleny]

12. On this terrible day - this news is spectacular!

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