2022 U.S. Senate Races

[NorthDallas40]

I was hoping for gridlock honestly. Looks like 2 more miserable years ahead.

Most projections I’ve read on the House still has it flipping. Even if the margin is 1 vote a simple majority is all that’s required in the House and will also determine the Speaker. But not much else has gone the GOP’s way so who knows

 

[lawgator1]

Most projections I’ve read on the House still has it flipping. Even if the margin is 1 vote a simple majority is all that’s required in the House and will also determine the Speaker. But not much else has gone the GOP’s way so who knows

McCarthy???


Not a wuss at all.

 

[GroverCleveland]

Need a win in Georgia bad. While the Dems have the tie breaker, Biden has royally pissed off Manchin maybe and makes him less likely to vote for the crazy schemes. Additionally, although I don't think it was ever an issue, no way on God's green Earth is Manchin doing away with the filibuster.

 

[DonjoVol]

The only misconduct was the Rs nominated literally the only choice that couldn't beat Lurch.

They did the same thing in GA, AZ, NV as well.

It's not fraud, it's the piss poor candidates the Rs nominated. The right R candidate would have probably won NH as well...

So you prefer candidates backed by the likes of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell?

 

[DonjoVol]

Stop voting for extremist candidates during the Republican Party primary elections (election deniers, Q Anon followers) just because Trump has endorsed them. It is hurting the party's chances of winning elections.

Extremist candidates? Your party is still voting for people like Waters, Schiff, Pelosi, Swallwell, AOC, Steve Cohen, Shumer, Hochul, and Whitmer. All of those are people you likely support too.

 

[DonjoVol]

I just don’t get it. Democrats are ruining this country. Inflation, trans insanity, and yet people still went to the polls and voted Democrat. America is filled with masochists apparently.

It's not just democrats. There is enough establishment Republicans going along with their agenda as well.

 

[headhunter15]

What a colossal failure by Republicans to not take control of the Senate. It was there on a platter.

Quit the culture war & abortion stuff and focus on issues that impact people’s wallets.

 

[headhunter15]

Extremist candidates? Your party is still voting for people like Waters, Schiff, Pelosi, Swallwell, AOC, Steve Cohen, Shumer, Hochul, and Whitmer. All of those are people you likely support too.

Both parties have some absolutely horrible people in office and running.

The Dems would be better off without the Squad and Republicans would be better off without MTG & Bobert.

 

[headhunter15]

Need a win in Georgia bad. While the Dems have the tie breaker, Biden has royally pissed off Manchin maybe and makes him less likely to vote for the crazy schemes. Additionally, although I don't think it was ever an issue, no way on God's green Earth is Manchin doing away with the filibuster.

Thank God for Joe Manchin.

 

[DonjoVol]

Need a win in Georgia bad. While the Dems have the tie breaker, Biden has royally pissed off Manchin maybe and makes him less likely to vote for the crazy schemes. Additionally, although I don't think it was ever an issue, no way on God's green Earth is Manchin doing away with the filibuster.

Manchin is there for show. There was legislation that they likely didn't want approved so when they need a dissenter. Manchin and sometimes Sinema have no problem playing that role. However they still do enough to help push through much of the democrat and RINO establishment agenda.

Also keep in mind that Manchin's wife is the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. She was appointed to that position by the Biden administration. Biden isn't pissed at Manchin like you think. It's all for show.

 

[DonjoVol]

Both parties have some absolutely horrible people in office and running.

The Dems would be better off without the Squad and Republicans would be better off without MTG & Bobert.

How about this? Both parties would be better off setting term limits in the House and Senate.

The one thing about MTG and Boebert is that they haven't just voted in lockstep with the party or have been beholden to corporate interests. You can't say the same about the Squad anymore and that's the platform that they ran on. Most of these politicians in office will serve corporate and their big money donors interests before the interests of the people.

 

[GroverCleveland]

Manchin is there for show. There was legislation that they likely didn't want approved so when they need a dissenter Manchin and sometimes Sinema have no problem playing that role. However they still do enough to help push through much of the democrat and RINO establishment agenda.

Also keep in mind that Manchin's wife is the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. She was appointed to that position by the Biden administration. Biden isn't pissed at Manchin like you think. It's all for show.

I didn't say Biden was pissed at Manchin.
I believe it safe to say they were not happy with him blocking some and holding up other parts of his agenda.

Not buying the conspiracy aspect Manchin plays a "role" because no one in this administration is smart enough to plan lunch, let alone something that Machiavellian.

 

[TNVOLNAVY]

What a colossal failure by Republicans to not take control of the Senate. It was there on a platter.

Quit the culture war & abortion stuff and focus on issues that impact people’s wallets.

Why? The people have spoken and they like record inflation and watching their wallets shrink.

 

[DonjoVol]

I didn't say Biden was pissed at Manchin.
I believe it safe to say they were not happy with him blocking some and holding up other parts of his agenda.

Not buying the conspiracy aspect Manchin plays a "role" because no one in this administration is smart enough to plan lunch, let alone something that Machiavellian.

Sorry. Manchin isn't pissed at Biden either. These guys are still friends which is why Manchin's wife was appointed federal co- chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Yes, Manchin is playing his part when needed.

 

[GroverCleveland]

Sorry. Manchin isn't pissed at Biden either. These guys are still friends which is why Manchin's wife was appointed federal co- chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Yes, Manchin is playing his part when needed.

Not sure what point you're trying make here. Gayle was nominated two months after the inauguration. Manchin's obstruction of Biden's big legislation occurred well after that.

It seems your point is regardless of what Manchin did, Biden still liked him enough to name Gayle to the commission. The timeline does not support that contention.

I regret if I have misunderstood you. I will add I do not know if they spend time in a hottub together because they are such good buddies, but there is plenty of video that suggests not everything is rainbows and unicorns between Manchin and the Administration.

 

[rekinhavoc]

Republican Party 'is dead' after major midterm election losses in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada: Hawley

Ditch Mitch and McCarthy. Particularly Mitch. They were the leaders and they should be held responsible .

Mitch shouldn't have sent 5 million to save Murkowski. The seat was going to be republican. Him putting his finger on the scale for her and not supporting other candidate's needs is BS.

 

[DonjoVol]

Not sure what point you're trying make here. Gayle was nominated two months after the inauguration. Manchin's obstruction of Biden's big legislation occurred well after that.

It seems your point is regardless of what Manchin did, Biden still liked him enough to name Gayle to the commission. The timeline does not support that contention.

I regret if I have misunderstood you. I will add I do not know if they spend time in a hottub together because they are such good buddies, but there is plenty of video that suggests not everything is rainbows and unicorns between Manchin and the Administration.

Like I said before. When the democrat party needs dissenters some will come forward like Manchin and Sinema. They are also serving the interests of big money donors who have likely donated to both Republicans and democrats. Manchin and Sinema dissenting on certain votes and legislation also keeps the democrats hardcore base fired up enough. The base that they have brainwashed that will vote for them no matter what.

And like I said before, when they actually need Manchin's vote he will always come through for them.

 

[Majors]

Democrats maintain control of Senate, NBC News projects, defeating many Trump-backed Republicans

Where is that red wave we heard so much about?

We just need Hobbs to defeat Lake for Governor of Arizona, and then Warnock to defeat Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff ... and this election cycle could not have been any better for Democrats. At least so far, Democrats have won every single election that they had a realistic chance of winning. This must be demoralizing for the Republican Party.

For months expected to lose the Senate, lost the Senate. Made it close, lost in the end.
Expected to win the House, won the House. The concerning issues for the left of the redness should be the developments of NY Governor race being cut drastically and CA losing house seats while Florida, GA and Texas infused more red in those states.

Bye Nancy, bye Beto and bye Abrams.

 

[NorthDallas40]

McCarthy???


Not a wuss at all.

At least he doesn’t appear to stay drunk in the Capitol building

 

[BowlBrother85]

For months expected to lose the Senate, lost the Senate. Made it close, lost in the end.
Expected to win the House, won the House. The concerning issues for the left of the redness should be the developments of NY Governor race being cut drastically and CA losing house seats while Florida, GA and Texas infused more red in those states.

Bye Nancy, bye Beto and bye Abrams.

Your analysis is superficial, to say the least.

1) You say that Republicans lost the race for control of the Senate, but made it close? It was already close! It was a 50/50 split going into the 2022 mid-term elections. The Democrats have a good chance of picking up a seat now, pending the runoff in Georgia. That is unheard of in a mid-term election year for the party in power.

2) Republicans didn't just expect to win control of the House. It is fair to say that they expected to pick up a minimum of 15 seats. They will pick up less than 10 seats. It could be as few as 7. By comparison, Democrats picked up 40 seats during the 2018 mid-term election cycle.

3) Outside of New York (which Hochul won) you didn't mention the elections for Governor, and I don't blame you. In the swing states, the Democrats managed to hold their own with some surprisingly strong showings. To be fair, Republicans recorded big victories in Georgia (Kemp), Florida (DeSantis), Ohio (DeWine) and Nevada (Lombardo), but Democrats looked just as strong with wins in Pennsylvania (Shapiro), Michigan (Whitmer) and Wisconsin (Evers) ... with Arizona yet to be determined (Hobbs is currently showing a slight lead over Lake).

^^^ I'm not counting Texas and New York as "swing states", because they're not. ^^^

Finally, you are obviously trying to downplay the predictions of a "red wave" by claiming that these results were exactly what the right was expecting. That is not accurate. See the videos below ...

 

[DonjoVol]

Your analysis is superficial, to say the least.

1) You say that Republicans lost the race for control of the Senate, but made it close? It was already close! It was a 50/50 split going into the 2022 mid-term elections. The Democrats have a good chance of picking up a seat now, pending the runoff in Georgia. That is unheard of in a mid-term election year for the party which is not in power.

2) Republicans didn't just expect to win control of the House. It is fair to say that they expected to pick up a minimum of 15 seats. They will pick up less than 10 seats. It could be as few as 7. By comparison, Democrats picked up 40 seats during the 2018 mid-term election cycle.

3) Outside of New York (which Hochul won) you didn't mention the elections for Governor at all, and I don't blame you. In the swing states, the Democrats managed to hold their own with some surprisingly strong showings. To be fair, Republicans recorded big victories in Georgia (Kemp), Florida (DeSantis), Ohio (DeWine) and Nevada (Lombardo), but Democrats looked just as strong with wins in Pennsylvania (Shapiro), Michigan (Whitmer) and Wisconsin (Evers) ... with Arizona yet to be determined (Hobbs is currently showing a slight lead over Lake).

^^^ I'm not counting Texas and New York as "swing states", because they're not. ^^^

Finally, you are obviously trying to downplay the predictions of a "red wave" by claiming that these results were exactly what the right was expecting. That is not accurate. See the videos below ...

What do you think about the Oregon governor race which democrats came very close to losing? A 3rd party candidate receiving over 150,000 of the votes as well. If you count the 3rd party and Republican votes that means over 900,000 Oregonians actually said no to the democrat. You guys got lucky there.

 

[Majors]

Your analysis is superficial, to say the least.

1) You say that Republicans lost the race for control of the Senate, but made it close? It was already close! It was a 50/50 split going into the 2022 mid-term elections. The Democrats have a good chance of picking up a seat now, pending the runoff in Georgia. That is unheard of in a mid-term election year for the party which is in power.

2) Republicans didn't just expect to win control of the House. It is fair to say that they expected to pick up a minimum of 15 seats. They will pick up less than 10 seats. It could be as few as 7. By comparison, Democrats picked up 40 seats during the 2018 mid-term election cycle.

3) Outside of New York (which Hochul won) you didn't mention the elections for Governor, and I don't blame you. In the swing states, the Democrats managed to hold their own with some surprisingly strong showings. To be fair, Republicans recorded big victories in Georgia (Kemp), Florida (DeSantis), Ohio (DeWine) and Nevada (Lombardo), but Democrats looked just as strong with wins in Pennsylvania (Shapiro), Michigan (Whitmer) and Wisconsin (Evers) ... with Arizona yet to be determined (Hobbs is currently showing a slight lead over Lake).

^^^ I'm not counting Texas and New York as "swing states", because they're not. ^^^

Finally, you are obviously trying to downplay the predictions of a "red wave" by claiming that these results were exactly what the right was expecting. That is not accurate. See the videos below ...

Superficial? Results were expected and had been seen that way for some time. Bonus to the Republicans for making the senate an issue. Just for the purpose and time, I don’t take time open the links you choose to select. Take a victory in winning the senate when you were supposed to win it. Or be disappointed in the fact that the Senate Right made it a race with the weak candidates.

governors?
Maryland blue state went back? NY another deep blue state was in play and cut drastically. Abrahams and Beta weren’t close.

 

[Majors]

What do you think about the Oregon governor race which democrats came very close to losing? A 3rd party candidate receiving over 150,000 of the votes as well. If you count the 3rd party and Republican votes that means over 900,000 Oregonians actually said no to the democrat. You guys got lucky there.

He only see the end results, not the shifts. Which is fine for the victory lap but not the analytical view to the change.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Superficial? Results were expected and had been seen that way for some time. Bonus to the Republicans for making the senate an issue. Just for the purpose and time, I don’t take time open the links you choose to select. Take a victory in winning the senate when you were supposed to win it. Or be disappointed in the fact that the Senate Right made it a race with the weak candidates.

These were not the results that the right was expecting at all. For you to say otherwise, is either being oblivious to reality, or you are being dishonest. Either way, you have a serious case of denial going on.

 

[BowlBrother85]

He only see the end results, not the shifts. Which is fine for the victory lap but not the analytical view to the change.

What shift? Thanks to Donald Trump, Arizona is turning navy blue. As a Democrat, I appreciate it! Please nominate Trump for President again.