I'm not sure when you graduated from SM North, but I graduated from SM West in the mid 90's, and have stayed and raised my family here. Johnson County as a whole is a lot more blue than it was then. The County Commission just lost one of it's remaining 2 RWNJ's from the election in November. Harris/Walz won JoCo with 183451 votes compared to 154247 for the R ticket. Sharice Davids has won the 3rd congressional district with larger margins each election. The R's in JoCo are getting more and more extreme and also have a zero tolerance policy for not toeing the party line. We're definitely a big-tent party here that has seen a lot of defections of moderate R's come over to the party because MAGA has completely taken over. There were also a lot of close races that the Democratic challengers lost by less than 5-8 percentage points, which was nearly unheard of 8 years ago. The county Democratic party also put up a candidate for almost every state legislature/senate seat this year. That has definitely changed since the 90's/early 00's, and I'm glad to see them trying to fight for every seat they can get.
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