in my neck of the woods: half of the school board is up--unsurprisingly it's divided between the cranks who want to "take politics out of schools" (by which they mean queer people) and liberals trying to get the board to not do that. the liberals have historically prevailed since this is the region's most liberal school board but you can never tell who's actually going to win day of. we also have a bunch of controversial referendums this year but i'm pretty sure all of them are going to pass.

nationally, i'm tracking about 60 socialists who are up for election or re-election--i'd expect most of them will win their races but this could be an early harbinger of trouble for the left if some of the closer races don't go socialists' way. in particular i'm very curious if Israel-Palestine will influence any of them.