Election Night (or days, or weeks, or whatever) 2022

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allvol123 said:
We are raising idiots.

I have a recent grad with a BS in business from UT, working for me. I overheard her speaking with someone and she did not know what a republican or democrat was or what either would stand for in even the most general sense. But get out the vote.
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I heard this morning that this was the largest 18-30 year old turnout in history for a mid-term. I think we're seeing the results.
 
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Majors said:
Where did we lose serve? Take the house, looking that way and was expected... take the senate, 50/50 considering it was not in the cards a few months back. So again, where did they lose serve?

The more concerning side for the left was those 2020 hopes of bigger states going purple shifted back to deep red again.
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Well, for one thing, Republicans haven't won majority control of the Senate yet ... it's still possible, but that hasn't been determined yet.

The gains the Republicans made in the House are far below what we normally see from the party not in power, in mid-term elections. Democrats picked up 40 seats in 2018.

Republicans voted to nominate anyone who Trump endorsed in the primaries ... and they wound up with some bad candidates who lost elections that Republicans should have had.

Your spin cycle is definitely on notch 11.
 
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lawgator1 said:
There was going to be divided government, regardless. But, for a number of reasons, the country is not in the midst of some massive shift to the GOP many expected.

The debate is over the reasons:

Weak individual GOP candidates in key races;
Trump fatigue;
Economic anxiety is real but not felt to be the fault of one party;
Dem get out the vote effective;
Demographics continue to change and to create permanent Dem shift;
Abortion rights a key to female voting;
And on and on.
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To varying degrees, you are spot on here.
 
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utvolpj said:
Is anyone really sure anymore?
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I totally get that and that is why I said in the most general sense.

I don’t believe you don’t understand my point. She couldn’t name a person and which party they were attached to. She couldn’t name one issue and which side either would have claimed to represent. I don’t think I am being old, look at these young people, guy.

This is a college graduate. She is really good at TikTok and instagram, so there is that.
 
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evillawyer said:
Trump endorsees' results vs. desantis. Pretty clear which white fascist christo-nationalist the GOP needs to get behind.
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I really hope you catty girls keep this up because it’s this kind of rhetoric that is grating on everyone’s nerves that has any semblance of a functioning brain.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Well, for one thing, Republicans haven't won majority control of the Senate yet ... it's still possible, but that hasn't been determined yet.

The gains the Republicans made in the House are far below what we normally see from the party not in power, in mid-term elections. Democrats picked up 40 seats in 2020.

Republicans voted to nominate anyone who Trump endorsed in the primaries ... and they wound up with some bad candidates who lost elections that Republicans should have had.

Your spin cycle is definitely on notch 11.
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were they expected to win the Senate ? Early on it wasn't close, swing to today its up for grabs.

Not a spin cycle, but stating the numbers from start to finish. Held serve on taking the house and headed to a run-off in the senate when all early indications that was not to happen.

So your spin cycle is that the right gained, but didn't gain like expected and that's fair. Nancy will be gone and the Senate will be decided in a few weeks.... overall good day to be a conservative.
 
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A divided GOP and massive mail-in balloting with little to no safe guards wrecked what should have been a rout. Neither of which will be fixed before 2024. Expect more of the same, regardless of who runs for the GOP.
 
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hog88 said:
The most shocking winner to me is Whitmire. I can't believe the people of MI gave her another term after what she did to them during 2020-21. She will be emboldened to take even more drastic measures when the next "crisis" hits.
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That is one election that was directly impacted by abortion rights. Michigan voters are strongly against abortion bans. Republicans in that state need to adjust to this.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Is that more or less alarming than people voting for slavery?
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It doesn't seem all that alarming to me. I don't think it's any surprise that a lot of people go into the booth with no clue who or what they're voting for outside of a couple of contests.
 
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Red wave..hahaha.
You trumpsters that haven't hitched your cart to desatan yet better hurry it up.
 
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utvols88 said:
This. GOP needs to make desantis the guy. They'd be stupid not to. At the same time, the GOP is generally a stupid group. See PA and GA.
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Georgia you can't really blame on Trump. If not, Herschel then who? I don't even remember who else ran. In Pennsylvania there were at least two other good options. The governor candidate seems like he was downright awful which also dragged down Oz.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
So you think the GOP estabishment candidates would have been better instead of Trump populists? I don't think this means there is a hunger for more Mitch McConnell/Mitt Romney types.
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There’s a hunger for electable candidates who aren’t extreme and associated with an assclown that turns off 60% of the electorate.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Well, for one thing, Republicans haven't won majority control of the Senate yet ... it's still possible, but that hasn't been determined yet.

The gains the Republicans made in the House are far below what we normally see from the party not in power, in mid-term elections. Democrats picked up 40 seats in 2018.

Republicans voted to nominate anyone who Trump endorsed in the primaries ... and they wound up with some bad candidates who lost elections that Republicans should have had.

Your spin cycle is definitely on notch 11.
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Very true. THere were some solid R's IMO that lost out in primaries to Trump R's, who in turn lost to D's. I voted Trump twice for obvious reasons at the time, but at this point in time, I think he brings more harm than good. His narcissistic tendencies, and his ridicue of deSantis leaning toward a presedential run are not going to continue to age well. Republicans that have moved forward and separated from Trump will be more successful in the long run. There comes a point when you just have to do that and get back to the business of why you are running as an R verses what the fanatical faction of D's are destroying. Moderate D's will hold strong. IMO, the strongest elected government has majority of moderate D&R's verses the outliers on either side.
 
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