The 2022 Midterms Thread
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Oh I've seen plenty of attack ads from further right repubs in Texas... That's correct, a not insignificant portion of Texas voters think Abbott, Paxton, Patrick, Cruise, etc aren't right enough. They've since lined up behind them, but the primaries were brutal.
Anyway, I am expecting the worst and confident I'll still be surprised by how bad it goes.
I'd suggest for most here that once you've voted, check out for the rest of the day. Don't bother watching the news, don't check pollwatchers every 5 minutes(maybe once or twice tonight after polls close?). No matter who comes out ahead, the news media is gonna be milking anything they can drama up for eyeballs, and other than your vote your attention isn't going to have -any- effect on what happens afterward. All it'll give you is ulcers and anxiety, and justify MSM's "Horse race" tactics.
Just let it all go, accept you've done what you can within the process, and enjoy some peace before we have to dive back into the fray decided by the end results and legal shenanigans we'll undoubtedly see after. (Exception of course being any poll workers, vote counters, and official election observers here, since that IS their job, and hats off to you folk for dealing with it all.)
Just let it all go, accept you've done what you can within the process, and enjoy some peace before we have to dive back into the fray decided by the end results and legal shenanigans we'll undoubtedly see after. (Exception of course being any poll workers, vote counters, and official election observers here, since that IS their job, and hats off to you folk for dealing with it all.)
IF we lose the House the GOP will government shutdown us into a recession, which they will 100% own. Next summer when gas doesn't magically go back down to 2 bucks they're going to own that too. The party will emerge in 2024 damaged as hug.
Be careful what you wish for Republicans.
Anyway I expect to get most of my news tonight in this thread, and to spend some time grieving losses with friends. Better than doing it alone.
Be careful what you wish for Republicans.
Anyway I expect to get most of my news tonight in this thread, and to spend some time grieving losses with friends. Better than doing it alone.
Well that was almost painless. Turnout in my area is good. For some reason they had trouble finding me in the records but we got it sorted out. At least the tabulation machine seemed to work.
I don't expect any useful news for at least a week. The GOP is gonna contest every single loss.
Ohio's still using the paper ballots you fill in like a standardized test and feed into a scanner, so pretty painless. There's an amendment on the ballot this year to block 17-year-olds from voting in the primaries, so I voted against that... nothing as interesting as the amendment from 2006 to ban public smoking; that'll be a fun one to tell people about when I'm old. Also there's been an ad on YouTube reminded people to research judicial candidates, so I looked over those last night—good thing too, because both of the candidates for one of the positions had no official party affiliation.
Exit polls. Nothing good for us in there. Older electorate versus 2018, with a largely negative view on the President.
www.cnn.com
Ugh. Anyway the news should start pouring in soon.
Exit polls: What voters are thinking as America goes to the polls | CNN Politics
Voters in this year's midterm elections are broadly unhappy with the state of the nation and hold largely negative views of President Joe Biden, according to the preliminary national results of the exit poll conducted for CNN and other news networks by Edison Research.
www.cnn.com
Ugh. Anyway the news should start pouring in soon.
No one at my location was conducting exit polls.
Implying Big Oil (and all the other companies who have been using "inflation" as an excuse to jack up prices just because) won't lower prices just to fool people into thinking that a Republican-run country is good for their wallets, knowing that if they lose in 2024, there goes their lobbying money again.
I want to say this is because the young people have been voting by mail... in which case we're gonna have trouble when the polls close, the media immediately reports a victory for the Republicans, and the Democrats' votes haven't actually been counted yet.
If any of that were true we wouldn't be where we are now because that's all they've done to some degree or another since 1980.
DeSantis and Rubio are running away with this thing and we don't even have the Panhandle yet.
Osceola County is more Puerto Rican and it appears to have flipped red too. This is a massacre.
ELON, TURN OFF THE HUGGING "See more tweets" POPUP ALREADY!