Oh, the mayoral election in LA. The republicans nominee came in third and won’t be moving on. It will be two democrats battling it out.

Relative to the surrounding area, and possibly a lot of the Midwest, yes. I lived near there for a little bit, fun town.

Yeah, it’s very blue and has high voter turnout, the whole of Dane county even

Overall Wisconsin is a pretty purple state

Edit: the state was also horribly gerrymandered after the 2010 midterms until recently. It has been turned around due to wins in the Supreme Court. Currently it is 4-3 left vs right leaning justices, but on August 1 Chris Taylor will replace Rebecca Bradley making it 5-2. Ziegler is next in 2027 meaning it could be 6-1

Wisconsin is historically left-leaning. The Republican party was founded here by abolitionists in response to the expansion of slavery. Milwaukee had a few Socialist mayors before the Cold War.

It's a purple state now, but that's only because we're gerrymandered to hell. Most cities tend liberal, but Madison is on another level.

It's a liberal college town

The context being they’re friends, it’s very abnormal to string that many points of self description in a niche context if someone’s your friend they know these things

Liberal is nothing like libertarian except they are both capitalist (ignoring that libertarian and anarchist were synonymous). Liberal refers to social spending to prevent people from complaining about the inequality of capital ownership while conservative means winner-take all with little to no bread and circuses and a hierarchical worldview.

Literally every single text app I've used the past 20 years has had the incoming message on the left of the screen...

It's so easy to fake an incoming text that my first guess would be "different app" rather than assuming it's outgoing.