Quote (Black XistenZ @ Nov 9 2022 12:34pm)
This. I can rationalize why weak candidates like Oz or Walker didn't get the job done, or that Democrats might eke out a narrow win in races like AZ and NV senate which always tilted their way. Or that underfunded candidates like Tudor Dixon (MI Gov) or Bolduc (NH Sen) couldn't win. What is a lot more eerie, however, is the apparent lack of an enthusiasm gap or turnout edge in favor of Republicans.
Given the political environment (historic midterm trends, Biden's approvals deeply under water, inflation skyhigh, the economy teetering on the brink of recession, crime and the border out of control), this performance is a massive massive disappointment for the GOP, even if they eventually get to 225 seats in the House or so.
A lot of races are still to be called, but I think we can already draw some conclusions:
The big winners of the night: DeSantis and the polling industry
The big losers of the night: Trump and the candidates closely associated with his post-2020 antics; McConnell who threw multiple races by refusing to fund GOP candidates
its just unreal, how bad does it have to become until people do something else?
i think we both agree that the GOP is not the magic solution here
but people are still voting blue despite them turning their cities and neighborhoods into absolute shitholes
they got the whole package of misery, crime and looting in broad daylight, homeless and drug addicts shitting on the road, massive inflation, exploding living costs, expensive energy, overall bad economy......and more
its impossible to fuck up more things than the democrats and they still get votes, even a mentally+physically severly disabled guy wins his state
everyone gets what they deserve so deal with it folks, but democracy has literally become the rule of retards
same in germany so this is not new for us