How did socialists perform in the 2024 election?

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Posted on 11/26/2024 4:02:58 AM PST by MtnClimber

Since 2018, the Heartland Institute has monitored the success of socialist candidates in midterm and general elections. This year, socialists again won a variety of political offices at the national, statewide, and local levels, reinforcing the fact that socialists have indeed gained a toehold throughout the United States.

In 2024, as detailed in the Heartland Institute’s latest edition of Socialist Watch, socialist candidates won 94 percent of the races they participated in. Moreover, most of these races were won easily, with socialists beating their opponents by an average margin of 49 percentage points.

The winning percentage and average margin of victory for socialists in 2024 parallels the rate at which socialist candidates won in 2022 and 2020, however, it appears that the total number of socialists running in 2024 may have been far fewer than in years past.

Beginning in the 2018 midterm election, my colleagues and I began tracking the total number of socialists running for political offices. To determine whether a candidate was definitely a socialist, he or she must have been endorsed by one of these three organizations: Our Revolution, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and/or the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA).

All these groups openly advocate for socialist ideology and support far-left collectivist policies such as Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, wealth taxes, canceling student loans, etc. In recent election cycles, these organizations have also endorsed candidates they deem worthy of championing the socialist banner.

In 2018, Our Revolution, the DSA, and or/the PDA endorsed 86 socialist candidates. In 2020, this number ballooned to 266. In 2022, the number of socialists endorsed by one of the big three socialist organizations fell to 132. In 2024, they endorsed “only” 51 socialists.

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1 posted on 11/26/2024 4:02:58 AM PST by MtnClimber

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2 posted on 11/26/2024 4:03:52 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

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