![]() The 24-hour nature of modern media leaves platforms forever starved for new content perennially tight margins in the House and Senate have raised the legislative stakes of every race intense polarization between the parties and the creeping nationalization of politics have intensified the rooting interests and the growing Trumpiness of the right turns each new contest into a gut check on how swing voters are liking the GOP’s new authoritarian direction. If you’re looking for reasons why special elections seem more important now than they used to, take your pick. By the end of the evening, Weigel’s joke was the only take that hadn’t been semi-seriously offered to explain the result. CNN spent hours in prime time on Tuesday evening obsessively tracking and analyzing the results of the race between Suozzi and Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip. But don’t worry: In 25 years, special elections featuring 170k voters deciding 1/435th of the House will get wall-to-wall live coverage on national cable news.’” “If I had to write a letter to my teenage election nerd self,” he said, “it would begin: ‘I know it feels lonely now. Last night analyst Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report marveled at how times have changed. ![]() Younger readers won’t believe me but America was once a proper country in which only the most pathetically addicted political junkies paid attention to special election results. Good news for those suburban voters, I guess: Biden will be even older come November. ![]() ![]() “Suburban voters want Joe Biden to be even older.” “The verdict from NY-03 is clear,” Semafor’s Dave Weigel joked after Tuesday’s special election was called for Democrat Tom Suozzi. ![]()
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