2022 Midterm Elections

[RedJed]

All in all, so far I think this has gone WAY better than I could have imagined. Locally here in MN, it was pretty much a full on blue wave. Jensen got his ass handed to him in the governor race, Sec of State and Atty General stayed left, and most importantly the DFL party here are in full control now of the state house and senate, it appears. Considering the energy around here lately, I'm shocked this went the way it did but damn, it gives me some hope that rural ignorance isn't the majority!

And nationally, I think this went pretty fucking great. Trump particularly is livid at the results and this will not bode well for any future he thinks he has in the GOP as the frontrunner. Dare I wonder if the GOP flat out drops him. Plus I think he will get indicted on charges of some sort before he gets a chance to do much more destruction at this point. The only Trumper that really moved on was JD Vance in Ohio and that was it so far. Keri Lake looks to be bye Felicia in AZ (although once again there is going to be tons of stupid fallout there I am sure), and Dr Oz got fucking owned in PA. Georgia still being the eyesore that it is, Kemp moved on handily but the senate race is still up for the grabs in a race that has no fucking right to be this close, again. Please just go the fuck away, Hershell!

So my feeling at this point is Pence and DeSantis are gonna be two guys on top of the GOP presidential frontrunners. We will see.

And give it six months, but I bet Lauren Boebert leaves politics completely (hopefully) and she moves on to Onlyfans as the latest grift.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Here in Vacationland, Janet Mills was reelected as Governor and hopefully sends Paul LePage back to Florida forever. Jared Golden seems poised to beat Bruce Poliquin again. Maybe Paul LePage has an apartment in Florida, he can sublet to his buddy. Very good night here.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

I believe I said in the Musk thread that Trump is an albatross to the GOP, and it's been proven true overall. That said I do not believe his base is going to desert him. He will run in the primaries because he sees being President as his best way of staying out of prison. If DeSantis runs against him then it will be a bloodbath.

Polling in the US is in a dire state and I don't know how you fix it.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

He will run in the primaries because he sees being President as his best way of staying out of prison. If DeSantis runs against him then it will be a bloodbath.

And an ugly Republican primary bodes well for Biden. If Trump did the reasonable thing (ha ha ha ho ho ho he he he) and handed the torch to DeSantis, Biden would get dogwalked in 2024 IMO.

I think the results of yesterday spell it out. I don't think Biden's popularities are super popular but neither is the MAGA agenda.

 

[RedJed]

Looking ahead, it seems Trump and DeSantis are indeed on a collision course. Unless this is some game being played by both and all of a sudden they both realign with each other, I wouldn't put that out of the realm of possibility. I think DeSantis though is at a point where he wouldnt even want to be a VP candidate (power gone to his head/ego), and he may feel he's a better Trump than Trump is at this stage. He took over his playbook strategy and probably does it "better" than Trump, really.

I just wonder where Pence fits in all of this. I was shocked to see while watching CNN that Pence is going to do a town hall on that channel the day after Trump is claiming to be making a big announcement. Timing of that is interesting.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Karl Marx will probably throw lightning bolts down at me for complimenting mainstream libs but maybe the Democratic Party's strategy of signal boosting the MAGA candidates actually might have paid off. Bolduc and Mastriano both lost pretty handily and it looks like Kari Lake might lose too.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

ABC News is projecting that the US Senate race in Georgia will go to a run off so this thread will continue for another four weeks.

 

[BruiserBrody]

My Pillow Guy promises to present evidence that these mid terms are the "crime of the year".

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

This is the best midterms a sitting President has had since 1950.

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1590413413619859457

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Lauren Boebert mocked for awkward 17-hour silence after tweeting ‘red wave has begun’

The Colorado Republican remains locked in a tight race against Democratic challenger Adam Frisch

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Can someone tell me how I should feel about the results yesterday?

Also, Beto is a loser now. Unfair or not, in politics, that’s what he is. He will never get rid of that stink.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Can someone tell me how I should feel about the results yesterday?

 

[909]

Can someone tell me how I should feel about the results yesterday?

Also, Beto is a loser now. Unfair or not, in politics, that’s what he is. He will never get rid of that stink.

Tbh it literally could not have gone better. If the Dems can't keep the House it's Cuomo's fault and the GOP will lose those New York seats in a presidential year. I would go so far as to say it's the first time in a long time I had my faith restored in people who live here. Times are hard and they chose almost entirely in these swing races, not to elect the stupid people. That maybe the people in charge know how to fix it better than them.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Tennessee voters officially ban all forms of slavery in the state

One of the measures on the ballot amended the language around slavery in the state's constitution.

www.cbsnews.com

Next time you make fun of @tekcop , just realize that he grew up here

 

[Valeyard]

Oregon had the same thing and got rid of it too. Won't lie, I wasn't against the notion of suing someone and them having to be my butler like on Seinfeld.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Yeah this went better than I thought it would. I thought the Dems could keep the senate but I didn't think it would be at all close in the house. The number of close races is remarkable. If the Dems had done a better job at putting money in the right races and picking winning candidates (not abrams) etc than it could have gone even better but I don't want to complain too loudly, since they've done something that has happened very rarely in American history.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I don't have a full count but I think the night went well down ticket for a lot of the state house races as well. Maine's House and Senate was supposed flip to Republican and the Democrats retained control in both. Michigan's State Legislature and Senate went Democrat for the first time in 40 years.

 

[909]

I also think a reason things didn't go that badly is because Democrats were very careful not to cross the line when saying what they think is wrong with this country. There's a difference between saying we have problems and if they said that this country sucks and they've been a lot more careful to toe that line since 2016. The average American absolutely does not think this country sucks, but a lot of Republicans tell on themselves and say things like that all the time. Shit even I don't think this country sucks I'd rather live here than almost everywhere else. The ones who usually say bad things about the country the loudest were made to pay a price here. A lot of these Democratic candidates won because they don't believe in that shit activist groups say about certain parts of this country being a lost cause. People don't wanna hear that either! They might not win a rural area but if a candidate writes it off entirely those are thousands of votes they aren't going to get. This was a big L for the clueless Democratic consultant class too. For years they told candidates like Fetterman 'don't waste your time going there' and they are PROVEN WRONG.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I think last night was a big victory for moderates too. I think after the hysteria of the Trump era (preceded by the hysteria of the Obama era), I think majority of Americans are just ready for some bland ass politicians.

Is it possible to have a populist moderate? Cause I feel like that'd be the perfect politician for our times. I know that's kind of what Biden's going for a populist moderate but a populist moderate that's not ancient.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/yqj1yj/_/ivom85h

This guy gets it, hopefully he doesn’t spread the word but even so, it sounds like conservatives would give up on fighting abortion if that happened which would be nice.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1590490804518551553

Cmon cmon

 

[Dandy]

Tennessee voters officially ban all forms of slavery in the state

One of the measures on the ballot amended the language around slavery in the state's constitution.

www.cbsnews.com

Next time you make fun of @tekcop , just realize that he grew up here

“. . .passed with 79.54% of the votes.”

sideeyemonkeypuppet.jpeg

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1590367976246505473

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Some other notable measures that passed...

- Nebraska's minimum wage will increase to $15 an hour by 2026, up from the current $9 an hour (passed at 58.7%)
- Connecticut will allow early voting (passed at 59.2%)
- Kentucky confirmed constitutional right to abortion (passed at 52.3%)
- Maryland legalized recreational marijuana (passed at 65.5%)
- Missouri legalized recreational marijuana (passed at 53.1%)
- Nevada increased minimum wage to $12/Hr (passed at 54.1%)

 

[Dandy]

Meanwhile, West Virginia came over to my house and kicked my puppy.

The voters made sure to vote down some horrible amendments the Republican supermajority wanted to pass, then they voted in more Republicans to increase the supermajority so they could continue to pass worse laws.

Extremely disheartening was the local elections where the three County Commissioners where I live are all MAGA and the newest in particular is a racist, misogynistic buffoon that has been caught up in several scandals and continues getting elected to positions.

The red is permeating my decently blue college town.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

There's only solution that you become the next Richard Ojeda.

(Everyone: WHO!?)

 

[Dandy]

He’s a tool. I know him.

Wait. . .what are you trying to say?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

They might not win a rural area but if a candidate writes it off entirely those are thousands of votes they aren't going to get. This was a big L for the clueless Democratic consultant class too. For years they told candidates like Fetterman 'don't waste your time going there' and they are PROVEN WRONG.

I think the Democrats were onto a good thing when Howard Dean was head of the DNC in the mid-late '00s and employed the Fifty State Strategy. It probably helped turn Virginia blue for indefinite future and helped Obama win states like Indiana and North Carolina.

There are large swaths of the country where the Democrat Party has literally no presence. I know it sucks to be on a losing team but to sound like a corny high school sports coach, you're never going to win if you don't play.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1590542903755309056

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