Anonymous #1 4w

It’s a congressional race to fill the unexpired term of Mikie Sherrill who resigned after she won the governor’s race

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Anonymous OP 4w

Ooooo very neat! Who are the runners and who is set to win? Why do you think it’ll be a bellwether (what is a bellwether?)? Sorry for asking so many questions

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Anonymous #1 4w

There are 14 democrats in the field and it’s a strong democratic seat so that’s not the race. The race is the democratic primary. No one is set to win. It will be interesting to see if a progressive candidate (in a district very close to NYC) can win or if the establishment will take them down and NJ will fall victim to the corrupt democratic machine politics they always fall to. A bellwether is a leading indicator so it’s an early sign of the future. I think it’s a bellwether because

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Anonymous OP 4w

we’ll see if the democrats actually support a progressive candidate which they haven’t really done before (we saw what happened with Mamdani) or if they stay with the party machine which most people don’t actually want

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