The Midterm Elections

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tequila4kapp
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dajo9 said:

Dear Baby Boomers,
Meet your new overlords

Thankfully I will only have to live with the idiocy of people like this guy for a couple of decades before I'm pushing up daisies. Too bad I may not be around to see the pendulum swing the other way when their stupid ideas fail.
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okaydo said:


I have to say that between this Fox News clip and the one before this, the bewilderment and the unwillingness to believe the Republican message could be turning people off was delicious. Go ahead, keep telling yourself that woman are crazy and young people are brainwashed. I'm sure that will turn the tide for the GOP.
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Unit2Sucks said:

concordtom said:

Unit2Sucks said:

Trump will go scorched earth and bury any and all challengers. He will be the nominee if he's alive and not in prison. Even in prison he has a shot.

He will get torched if he wins the R primary!
We've seen this story and nothing has changed. Ask movielover who he'll vote for - it's Trump now more than ever. Movielover is where the GOP is right now. Election denialism, deep in conspiracy theories and skeptical of the "establishment" but somehow not of Trump.

Look at Fox News coverage, they just really don't understand what's really going on in this country because they still think Trump is some sort of sage.



The dems will clean Trump and the GOP's clock again in 2024 unless the GOP is able to make real progress in their fascist agenda to take over elections. The upcoming SCOTUS decision in Moore v Harper ("independent state legislature") may have a huge impact on that. It's the GOP's only hope because their message doesn't resonate with enough people.



You're out of touch with the Right, most Conservatives don't like Fox News. DeSantis can't win the presidency, and look at his boneheaded recent "God made me a fighter" video. He's young. Besides, if the Senate us split 50 / 50, Democrats will own the Recession, Inflation, proxy war w Russia, etc.

Unit2 - why don't election machines malfunction in Contra Costa, or San Jose, or Montana?

Why do they just - coincidentally - malfunction in Maricopa County, THE conservative leaning county needed to win a key swing state? And why did machines malfunction in Lee Zeldin's stronghold in New York? See a pattern?
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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

okaydo said:


I have to say that between this Fox News clip and the one before this, the bewilderment and the unwillingness to believe the Republican message could be turning people off was delicious. Go ahead, keep telling yourself that woman are crazy and young people are brainwashed. I'm sure that will turn the tide for the GOP.
They're just dancing monkeys, there is no reason to pretend like they believe anything they're saying or that they're attempting to make intelligent points. This is like when a photographer jumps around wildly to get a kid to smile or laugh - it's not because they think it's high art, they're trying to achieve a reaction.

Fox News has a lot of different threads, but none of them involve taking a rational, studied and accurate perspective on what's really going on in this country. The news side may try to report the news fairly but the opinion sides exists in part to drive Fox News viewers to watch more Fox News and in part to serve as the propaganda station for the GOP. Quite clear that's what is going on in this clip and that their opinions only serve to show the desperation facing the GOP.

I would be more interested to hear what actual GOP pundits think. Karl Rove can still occasionally tell us what's really going on. These clowns? They can't give us anything of merit.
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tequila4kapp said:

dajo9 said:

Dear Baby Boomers,
Meet your new overlords

Thankfully I will only have to live with the idiocy of people like this guy for a couple of decades before I'm pushing up daisies. Too bad I may not be around to see the pendulum swing the other way when their stupid ideas fail.
I don't know anything about Kenneth Mejia, but at some point us boomers need to step aside and let the younger generations take over. Some will prove to be mistakes but some will likely have some good ideas. Certainly us old fogies haven't been spectacularly good and we're all getting older and older.
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bearister said:

Big C said:


Trump must be pissed that lots of the candidates he endorsed flopped, but DeSantis won easily.

Because Trump has zero loyalty to the GOP (beyond what it can do for him), maybe he will try and sink DeSantis now.


tRump believes in the J. Edgar Hoover school of blackmail….but now that most Republicans want to saddle another horse, some may be willing to secretly "drop a dime" on tRump to get rid of him.


A recent poll found President Trump was the most popular politician in America.
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movielover said:


Unit2 - why don't election machines malfunction in Contra Costa, or San Jose, or Montana?

Why do they just - coincidentally - malfunction in Maricopa County, THE conservative leaning county needed to win a key swing state? And why did machines malfunction in Lee Zeldin's stronghold in New York? See a pattern?
Welcome back BareFarce!
This just in: Republicans find another whistleblower who claims Hillary's emails were proven to be on Hunter's laptop while Obama spied on tRump as he sat (shat?) upon his golden toilet. Gym Jordan afraid whistle blower may be in danger of abduction by aliens in cahoots with Democrats.
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tequila4kapp said:

dajo9 said:

Dear Baby Boomers,
Meet your new overlords

Thankfully I will only have to live with the idiocy of people like this guy for a couple of decades before I'm pushing up daisies. Too bad I may not be around to see the pendulum swing the other way when their stupid ideas fail.

What's idiotic?

The guy is educated. He's a CPA. It's not like he's a high school dropout like Lauren Boebert.

He's challenging established ideas and trying something different for a change so that we don't spend our entire budget on police and associated payouts when they screw up.

Instead he's focused on things people care about like reducing waste in government.

It's worth it to give this a shot. We know what the old way got us.








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movielover said:

bearister said:

Big C said:


Trump must be pissed that lots of the candidates he endorsed flopped, but DeSantis won easily.

Because Trump has zero loyalty to the GOP (beyond what it can do for him), maybe he will try and sink DeSantis now.


tRump believes in the J. Edgar Hoover school of blackmail….but now that most Republicans want to saddle another horse, some may be willing to secretly "drop a dime" on tRump to get rid of him.


A recent poll found President Trump was the most popular politician in America.
The same random recent poll found Trump was also the most unpopular politician in America. There's not much middle ground with Trump.
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movielover said:

concordtom said:

DiabloWags said:

Apparently, being from New Jersey was worse than suffering a stroke when it comes to PA.

Fetterman overwhelmingly wins the under age 45 vote.



I doubt it was the NJ aspect.
I think it's
1. He Muslim.
2. He's Trump-backed.

But that's just my impulse and not data
driven.


Likely a voting vs ballot harvesting issue.

Ha!
You're calling for election fraud in PA???

Please, humor us… go on… tell us all about it, Movie - Lover.

Your narrative can serve as your screenplay. Surely you can raise a few million to put it into production and stream for free on Parler.
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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

movielover said:

bearister said:

Big C said:


Trump must be pissed that lots of the candidates he endorsed flopped, but DeSantis won easily.

Because Trump has zero loyalty to the GOP (beyond what it can do for him), maybe he will try and sink DeSantis now.


tRump believes in the J. Edgar Hoover school of blackmail….but now that most Republicans want to saddle another horse, some may be willing to secretly "drop a dime" on tRump to get rid of him.


A recent poll found President Trump was the most popular politician in America.
The same random recent poll found Trump was also the most unpopular politician in America. There's not much middle ground with Trump.



Hate trump = you're smart.
Like trump = you're stupid.
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movielover said:


A recent poll found President Trump was the most popular politician in America.
This just in: Republicans find another whistleblower who claims Hillary's emails were proven to be on Hunter's laptop while Obama spied on tRump as he sat (shat?) upon his golden toilet. Gym Jordan afraid whistle blower may be in danger of abduction by aliens in cahoots with Democrats.
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Pennsylvania voted for a dead man and one who literally lived at home til he was 50, wears sweatshirts, and can't form sentences.

Versus a doctor. Maybe PA Democrats are ... racist?
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movielover said:

Unit2Sucks said:

concordtom said:

Unit2Sucks said:

Trump will go scorched earth and bury any and all challengers. He will be the nominee if he's alive and not in prison. Even in prison he has a shot.

He will get torched if he wins the R primary!
We've seen this story and nothing has changed. Ask movielover who he'll vote for - it's Trump now more than ever. Movielover is where the GOP is right now. Election denialism, deep in conspiracy theories and skeptical of the "establishment" but somehow not of Trump.

Look at Fox News coverage, they just really don't understand what's really going on in this country because they still think Trump is some sort of sage.



The dems will clean Trump and the GOP's clock again in 2024 unless the GOP is able to make real progress in their fascist agenda to take over elections. The upcoming SCOTUS decision in Moore v Harper ("independent state legislature") may have a huge impact on that. It's the GOP's only hope because their message doesn't resonate with enough people.



You're out of touch with the Right, most Conservatives don't like Fox News. DeSantis can't win the presidency, and look at his boneheaded recent "God made me a fighter" video. He's young. Besides, if the Senate us split 50 / 50, Democrats will own the Recession, Inflation, proxy war w Russia, etc.

Unit2 - why don't election machines malfunction in Contra Costa, or San Jose, or Montana?

Why do they just - coincidentally - malfunction in Maricopa County, THE conservative leaning county needed to win a key swing state? And why did machines malfunction in Lee Zeldin's stronghold in New York? See a pattern?
Perhaps you haven't heard, Maricopa isn't conservative leaning - Trump turned it blue in 2020. Katie Hobbs is beating Lake by 4 pts in Maricopa and Kelly is beating Masters by 8 points there. I'm not even sure why they are continuing to count votes there, don't Republicans hate late breaking votes? The election should be over there.

As for your question on why it's happening in Maricopa and not elsewhere, that's simply confirmation bias. Elections are managed and run at the local level and across the tens of thousands of precincts, there are always going to be some problems. Over the years we've seen a number of areas with more irregularities than others which could happen for a variety of reasons, including under-funding by the state. I don't know what caused the printers or whatever to malfunction in Maricopa, but it doesn't yet seem to have cost Katie Hobbs and the judge there doesn't think it's a big deal.

It's pretty clear that you let conspiracy theories get the better of you and that after spending weeks/months pretending people like the People's Pundit know what they are talking about, the harsh reality of this election has probably been quite a surprise for you.

Fear not though as you will get your wish and Trump will run again in 2024 and I'm sure he'll be the GOP nominee.
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movielover said:


Voter disenfranchisement + intimidation = Republicans
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So in 2020 it was just coincidental - yet mathematically impossible - that the election computers went down in all swing states ... not Montana, not New York, not Wyoming.

Better yet, they all went down at night. Not one at 2 PM, one at 4 PM, 2 at 6 PM... no, computers all went down, in swing states, with the POTUS ahead by huge margins... and then numbers magically changed.

BTW, when have computers ever gone down before?
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Arizona update w attorney Harmeet Dhillon.

https://rumble.com/v1t0zyg-whats-happening-in-arizona-harmeet-dhillon-with-sebastian-gorka-on-america-.html
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movielover said:

So in 2020 it was just coincidental - yet mathematically impossible - that the election computers went down in all swing states ... not Montana, not New York, not Wyoming.

Better yet, they all went down at night. Not one at 2 PM, one at 4 PM, 2 at 6 PM... no, computers all went down, in swing states, with the POTUS ahead by huge margins... and then numbers magically changed.

BTW, when have computers ever gone down before?

Bless your heart if you believe Trump when he tells you reality is mathematically impossible.

How many Trump steaks have you purchased?
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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

tequila4kapp said:

dajo9 said:

Dear Baby Boomers,
Meet your new overlords

Thankfully I will only have to live with the idiocy of people like this guy for a couple of decades before I'm pushing up daisies. Too bad I may not be around to see the pendulum swing the other way when their stupid ideas fail.
I don't know anything about Kenneth Mejia, but at some point us boomers need to step aside and let the younger generations take over. Some will prove to be mistakes but some will likely have some good ideas. Certainly us old fogies haven't been spectacularly good and we're all getting older and older.
No objection to the next gen. Look at his web site. It's like someone overlayed the word "audit" with talking points from a freshman college survey course. I'll give him some credit, he smartly parlays audit to fiscal responsibility and government efficiency but it's lipstick on a pig
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This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.
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tequila4kapp said:

This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.
The bigger picture is that this country doesn't trust Trump or the extremists controlling the GOP. According to exit polls, Democrats won independents nationwide (49-47) which is crazy in a midterm with economic challenges and Biden's approval numbers. Dobbs can only count for so much. The GOP lost with moderates 56-41. Let that sink in. Losing the middle by 15 points in a midterm with these fundamentals should be ringing alarm bells. But for gerrymandering, the GOP would be dead in the water. This was a repudiation of the modern GOP.

I don't think this is just about ground game or get out the vote. The GOP always does a great job turning out its voters but they are fundamentally selling an unpopular product. At some point the GOP will have to reckon with the fact that the GOP has consciously decided to serve only a fraction of its potential base.
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Unit2Sucks said:

movielover said:

So in 2020 it was just coincidental - yet mathematically impossible - that the election computers went down in all swing states ... not Montana, not New York, not Wyoming.

Better yet, they all went down at night. Not one at 2 PM, one at 4 PM, 2 at 6 PM... no, computers all went down, in swing states, with the POTUS ahead by huge margins... and then numbers magically changed.

BTW, when have computers ever gone down before?

Bless your heart if you believe Trump when he tells you reality is mathematically impossible.

How many Trump steaks have you
purchased?


You skipped some simple questions.

Any why did Philadelphia, Atlanta, etc., block poll observers?
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tequila4kapp said:

This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.


Possibly. And cheating via harvesting ballots.

Kari Lake update, 3 minutes.

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Someone most of you probably hate from a source you probably hate but you'll like this one (she hates Trump)
https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2022/11/09/ann-coulter-a-nation-rejoices-a-humiliating-defeat-for-trump/
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movielover said:

BTW, when have computers ever gone down before?
Is this a joke?
This just in: Republicans find another whistleblower who claims Hillary's emails were proven to be on Hunter's laptop while Obama spied on tRump as he sat (shat?) upon his golden toilet. Gym Jordan afraid whistle blower may be in danger of abduction by aliens in cahoots with Democrats.
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movielover said:

bearister said:

Big C said:


Trump must be pissed that lots of the candidates he endorsed flopped, but DeSantis won easily.

Because Trump has zero loyalty to the GOP (beyond what it can do for him), maybe he will try and sink DeSantis now.


tRump believes in the J. Edgar Hoover school of blackmail….but now that most Republicans want to saddle another horse, some may be willing to secretly "drop a dime" on tRump to get rid of him.


A recent poll found President Trump was the most popular politician in America.
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tequila4kapp said:

This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.

How, in your opinion, were "the underlying fundamentals... so skewed toward Rs"?

For me, the one thing that comes to mind is the way that the midterms have tended to go against the President that has just taken office two years prior, which, in this case, happens to be away from the Dems, toward the Republicans.
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Big C said:

tequila4kapp said:

This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.

How, in your opinion, were "the underlying fundamentals... so skewed toward Rs"?

For me, the one thing that comes to mind is the way that the midterms have tended to go against the President that has just taken office two years prior, which, in this case, happens to be away from the Dems, toward the Republicans.
Biden massively underwater. 75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction. Very high number of people saying inflation was their major issue. Historical trend of party in power losing seats. This will be 1st ever party in power with underwater president has over 195 seats.
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tequila4kapp said:

Big C said:

tequila4kapp said:

This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.

How, in your opinion, were "the underlying fundamentals... so skewed toward Rs"?

For me, the one thing that comes to mind is the way that the midterms have tended to go against the President that has just taken office two years prior, which, in this case, happens to be away from the Dems, toward the Republicans.
Biden massively underwater. 75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction. Very high number of people saying inflation was their major issue. Historical trend of party in power losing seats. This will be 1st ever party in power with underwater president has over 195 seats.

If that's true that "75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction", how, specifically, did they pin that on ol' Joe?

It's like inflation, how, specifically, is that Biden's fault? Sure, the Republicans tried to pin it on him, but I didn't sense that they had their own plan to counter it, did they? Do they?

Everybody hates inflation and it's an aspect of the economy that everybody sees, firsthand, all the time. But I feel like, in general, the economy's in decent shape.

Americans (and, heck, people everywhere) like to gripe and blame things on the politicians in office, but when push came to shove and people looked at alternatives, they were like, "Biden? He's doing okay."
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Big C said:

tequila4kapp said:

Big C said:

tequila4kapp said:

This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.

How, in your opinion, were "the underlying fundamentals... so skewed toward Rs"?

For me, the one thing that comes to mind is the way that the midterms have tended to go against the President that has just taken office two years prior, which, in this case, happens to be away from the Dems, toward the Republicans.
Biden massively underwater. 75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction. Very high number of people saying inflation was their major issue. Historical trend of party in power losing seats. This will be 1st ever party in power with underwater president has over 195 seats.

If that's true that "75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction", how, specifically, did they pin that on ol' Joe?

It's like inflation, how, specifically, is that Biden's fault? Sure, the Republicans tried to pin it on him, but I didn't sense that they had their own plan to counter it, did they? Do they?

Everybody hates inflation and it's an aspect of the economy that everybody sees, firsthand, all the time. But I feel like, in general, the economy's in decent shape.

Americans (and, heck, people everywhere) like to gripe and blame things on the politicians in office, but when push came to shove and people looked at alternatives, they were like, "Biden? He's doing okay."
Exactly, most democrats think that Trumpism and the fascists have done and continue to do damage to our country. SCOTUS is taking our country in a direction that a lot of people don't want it to go. The Dobbs decision was one of the most unpopular decisions we've seen, and there were more than a few other decisions that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. There are other fundamental rights that have been implicated as well with the recent jurisprudence. How you interpret "going in the wrong direction" is pretty important.

I do think that t4k is correct however that the fundamentals favored the GOP. Inflation is a huge problem and correcting it is very likely to cause a recession. The duration and impact of that inflation is of course yet to be known. The general fear around what's coming for us with the economy is a pretty huge headwind.
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GoOskie said:

movielover said:

BTW, when have computers ever gone down before?
Is this a joke?


I meant widespread shutdown of election computers - when have whole states shut down, on election night, for hours?
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Big C said:

tequila4kapp said:

Big C said:

tequila4kapp said:

This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.

How, in your opinion, were "the underlying fundamentals... so skewed toward Rs"?

For me, the one thing that comes to mind is the way that the midterms have tended to go against the President that has just taken office two years prior, which, in this case, happens to be away from the Dems, toward the Republicans.
Biden massively underwater. 75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction. Very high number of people saying inflation was their major issue. Historical trend of party in power losing seats. This will be 1st ever party in power with underwater president has over 195 seats.

If that's true that "75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction", how, specifically, did they pin that on ol' Joe?

It's like inflation, how, specifically, is that Biden's fault? Sure, the Republicans tried to pin it on him, but I didn't sense that they had their own plan to counter it, did they? Do they?

Everybody hates inflation and it's an aspect of the economy that everybody sees, firsthand, all the time. But I feel like, in general, the economy's in decent shape.

Americans (and, heck, people everywhere) like to gripe and blame things on the politicians in office, but when push came to shove and people looked at alternatives, they were like, "Biden? He's doing okay."


We've gone over this before, didn't you pay attention?

1. Added over $4 Trillion+ in spending, on top of previous stimulus spending.
2. Green New Deal / Build Back Better / WEF - restricting new oil and NG leases, shutting down new pipelines, and negative market news.
3. Signed Paris Accord
4. 2 & 3 lead to big jumps in energy prices, which lead to big jumps in food prices
5. Proxy war w Ukraine
6. Could have fired the Fed chair
7. Extended Lockdowns, which leads to a host of problems, including more $$$ chasing fewer goods
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Unit2Sucks said:

Big C said:

tequila4kapp said:

Big C said:

tequila4kapp said:

This election is over but for some counting and Georgia's run-off.

The underlying fundamentals were so skewed toward Rs that I am suspicious there's something more fundamental at play rather than anti-trump, abortion, etc. It has to be something like Ds on the ground get out the vote game developed during the Covid shutdown were leveraged to great effect. It's the most logical explanation to me, but we will learn in time.

In the meantime, Ds get some time to rightly gloat and Rs still have a solid path to quietly capturing the House and Senate. TBD.

How, in your opinion, were "the underlying fundamentals... so skewed toward Rs"?

For me, the one thing that comes to mind is the way that the midterms have tended to go against the President that has just taken office two years prior, which, in this case, happens to be away from the Dems, toward the Republicans.
Biden massively underwater. 75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction. Very high number of people saying inflation was their major issue. Historical trend of party in power losing seats. This will be 1st ever party in power with underwater president has over 195 seats.

If that's true that "75-80% of people saying country is going in the wrong direction", how, specifically, did they pin that on ol' Joe?

It's like inflation, how, specifically, is that Biden's fault? Sure, the Republicans tried to pin it on him, but I didn't sense that they had their own plan to counter it, did they? Do they?

Everybody hates inflation and it's an aspect of the economy that everybody sees, firsthand, all the time. But I feel like, in general, the economy's in decent shape.

Americans (and, heck, people everywhere) like to gripe and blame things on the politicians in office, but when push came to shove and people looked at alternatives, they were like, "Biden? He's doing okay."
Exactly, most democrats think that Trumpism and the fascists have done and continue to do damage to our country. SCOTUS is taking our country in a direction that a lot of people don't want it to go. The Dobbs decision was one of the most unpopular decisions we've seen, and there were more than a few other decisions that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. There are other fundamental rights that have been implicated as well with the recent jurisprudence. How you interpret "going in the wrong direction" is pretty important.

I do think that t4k is correct however that the fundamentals favored the GOP. Inflation is a huge problem and correcting it is very likely to cause a recession. The duration and impact of that inflation is of course yet to be known. The general fear around what's coming for us with the economy is a pretty huge headwind.
It seems pretty clear that at least some of Joe Biden's low approval rating is from people who think he's not doing ENOUGH to stop the Republicans.
 
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