The US Mid-Term Elections 2022

[KnightHawk 2.0]

The gift that keeps on giving, that nobody wants to unwrap...

"“They stole the Electron from Blake Masters."
Donald Trump Makes A Mockery Of His Election Freakout With Doozy Of A Typo | HuffPost UK Politics (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

"[FONT="]Rep [/FONT]Marjorie Taylor Greene[FONT="] was widely mocked on Thursday morning after tweeting that the United States’ enemies are “quacking in their boots”."
[/FONT]Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for embarrassing duck-related Twitter typo | The Independent

Agree it is the gift that keeps on giving,and right on cue the MAGA King Donald Trump and his enablers are making false claims about the election being stolen.

[filghy2]

“They stole the Electron from Blake Masters."

Perhaps they are going to use it in those Jewish space lasers.

[Stavros]

An interesting piece which explains why Stacy Abrams lost in Georgia -for the most part arguing that different factions in the Democrat party were pulling in the contrary directions (as this party often seems to do), while some wanted her to be more focused on Georgia rather than the national stage. I am not sure if it delves into the demographics of electors in a State which does still retain a strong cohort of Republicans. If she is so divisive a figure, this does suggest she may have to limit her ambitions.

Here Are All the Reasons Stacey Abrams Lost the Georgia Governor's Race (thedailybeast.com)

[Ben]

Gen Z Showed Up in Large Numbers to Protect Climate...
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...hwart-red-wave

[blackchubby38]

I'm not saying there isn't an answer but I don't know a lot about macroeconomics. If he recognized that inflation was a problem would he have been able to ameliorate it? I know interest rates can be raised, but what else do you think he should have done? I'm not asking this as a gotcha because I anticipate there is an answer and he could have handled it better.

During that same period of time Republican Justices overturned Roe v. Wade, have passed a bunch of homophobic laws, and are spreading conspiracy theories about Paul Pelosi being attacked while refusing to condemn it.

Yes, the average person has a lot to lose from inflation. Wages might not increase at the rate of cost of living increases. People with modest savings might find the purchasing power of their savings is reduced.

I don't know a lot about macroeconomics either. But sometimes acknowledging a problem can be the first step in trying to solve it. Which the Biden Administration sort of did when the name of "Build Back Better" was all of sudden changed to the "Inflation Reduction Act".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflati...on_Act_of_2022

I'm guessing they thought since it was passed in late August, it would give the impression that they were doing something about it as way to alleviate voters' whose main concern was inflation and it would be one of the reasons they voted for a Republican candidate.

Before Election Day, my feeling was given the general mood of the country, swing voters/independents were going to vote on which issue they were more concerned about, despite having concerns about an equally important issue. What happened was that while many people are worried about the economy, they voted because of what happened with Roe vs Wade and because they wanted to send a message to the Republican party about Trump and the election deniers. In essence, people said we aren't happy with way things are going, but we don't want things to get worse.

[Stavros]

Surely not? But we have been here with the impossible before, as in 2015. Memo to America -if he revives his American citizenship, maybe Boris Johnson would like to be Speaker?

" “We know that the hard-right Freedom Caucus people are in search of another candidate” for House speaker, Raskin told Margaret Brennan.
“One potential candidate whose name has been floated is Donald Trump himself because the speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House,” he continued. “And they are talking about putting Trump right there.” "
Don't Party Just Yet: Jamie Raskin Raises Specter Of House Speaker Trump (yahoo.com)

[broncofan]

with Roe vs Wade and because they wanted to send a message to the Republican party about Trump and the election deniers. In essence, people said we aren't happy with way things are going, but we don't want things to get worse.

So you're saying that instead of voting against Democrats because they didn't handle an economic issue Republicans almost certainly wouldn't have handled well they decided to cast a vote against legislators who want to force women to carry pregnancies resulting from rape to term or who support telling fables about election results instead of conceding races they've lost like every civilized candidate in a democracy does for fear they'd otherwise be inciting insurrection? Oh the humanity! What were they thinking!? That women should not have to fear they will be fugitives if they have abortions? Or that we shouldn't have people in office who told tall tales about tens of thousands of ballots being found in a dumpster with Chinese shipping receipts and that they should storm public buildings and exercise their second amendment rights?

But yes, I'd agree a women's right to terminate a pregnancy conceived from a violent rape is as important as fighting inflation but I'm not prone to understatement. https://abcnews.go.com/US/rape-excep...ry?id=88237926

[broncofan]

And yes, I know there are people who struggle to pay their bills and are in a different financial situation than I'm in. But I don't think the party that thinks requiring insurance companies to provide health coverage for people with cancer is communism is as concerned about poverty and the human condition as they maintain.

[blackchubby38]

So you're saying that instead of voting against Democrats because they didn't handle an economic issue Republicans almost certainly wouldn't have handled well they decided to cast a vote against legislators who want to force women to carry pregnancies resulting from rape to term or who support telling fables about election results instead of conceding races they've lost like every civilized candidate in a democracy does for fear they'd otherwise be inciting insurrection? Oh the humanity! What were they thinking!? That women should not have to fear they will be fugitives if they have abortions? Or that we shouldn't have people in office who told tall tales about tens of thousands of ballots being found in a dumpster with Chinese shipping receipts and that they should storm public buildings and exercise their second amendment rights?

But yes, I'd agree a women's right to terminate a pregnancy conceived from a violent rape is as important as fighting inflation but I'm not prone to understatement. https://abcnews.go.com/US/rape-excep...ry?id=88237926

Dude, I have no idea what you're trying to say. So I think its just best we end this discussion here.

[Stavros]

Maybe the question is, how did the polls get it wrong? Is it the modelling they use, is it the assumptions polling organizations make that shape their questions and results? Clearly more people were energized by Roe-v-Wade than the polls suggest, maybe more were registering a disaffection with the extremism of the Republican Party than the polls allow, though one also notes that the Party did well in Florida and Texas and some of the Northern States. The polls failed to predict a hung parliament in the UK in 2017, so I wonder if it is not just a national thing, but a flaw in polling methods, and whether it means they can be trusted in future if they do not change.

Or is it the difficulty of arriving at a consensus on policies in so divided a country?