Midterms questions and analysis
dolphins4life:
1) Why is it taking so long? There are still two districts that have not been officially called. The current makeup right now is 220-213 in favor of the GOP. The Senate is 50-49 in favor of the Democrats. The current indication is that it will be 222-213 in the House in favor of the GOP
2) What would have constituted a red wave? Why did the GOP think there was going to be one? Was it SOLELY because Biden has done such a horrible job and things are so bad right now? Biden won by 7 million votes in 2020. Looking back, it seems ridiculous to think there would have been a red wave.
3) Why is Trump attacking DeSantis? It's not good for the top two candidates in a party to be attacking each other. DeSantis DID achieve a red wave in Florida. If he ran for president in 2024, I wonder if he would win in a red wave in the electoral college. DeSantis has not officially declared his candidacy for the presidency yet.
Sunstroke:
1) The laws governing over the counting of ballots in various states/districts are readily available to anyone who has access to Google. Don't be lazy...
2) The incumbent party usually loses a ton of seats during the midterm. This time...not so much. Considering where the economy is, I expected a lot more seats flipped to the GOP.
3) Trump attacks everybody...period...always. It is his one and only strategy.
dolphins4life:
What does a ton mean in this sense? The Republicans gained about a dozen seats. Would a ton in this season mean three dozen?
It's not just the economy that is bad, it's the border that is horrible, too. Biden has run this country into the ground.
DenverFinFan:
Quote from: dolphins4life on December 01, 2022, 09:26:09 pm
What does a ton mean in this sense? The Republicans gained about a dozen seats. Would a ton in this season mean three dozen?
It's not just the economy that is bad, it's the border that is horrible, too. Biden has run this country into the ground.
In a year with inflation like it is we could have been expecting like 60 seats to swing and the Senate.
However republicans overplayed their hand with the abortion decision and attacking LGBT people constantly. Turns out most people don’t want to live in a theocracy.
The economy was going to go through hard times and it will recover, no matter who was president we would be in a similar situation.
The border nonsense is just right wing fear of immigration because demographic shifts don’t favor republicans.
Immigrants don’t commit crimes at high rates and every legitimate study shows that immigration is good for a country. Drugs don’t come through the border they come through ports.
Dave Gray:
Quote from: dolphins4life on December 01, 2022, 02:42:38 pm
1) Why is it taking so long?
Different laws in different places allow for different timelines, different technologies to be used, some places have automatic hand-recounts if things are close.
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2) What would have constituted a red wave? Why did the GOP think there was going to be one?
There isn't an answer, really. Steve Bannon said the GOP could win 100 seats. In general, the president's party loses a lot of seats, no matter what. And when the party in power oversees a down economy, it's even worse. Plus, with gerrymandering and all these other things, there were way more districts for GOP to overtake Dem spots than the other way around. It didn't happen for lots of reasons, but Abortion laws and running actual insane people instead of normal humans cost the GOP. Say what you will about the Dems, but we weed out our crazy people in the primaries. Our candidates are electable.
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3) Why is Trump attacking DeSantis? It's not good for the top two candidates in a party to be attacking each other.
Trump doesn't give one shit about the GOP and he has no ideology. He doesn't care about anything -- ANYTHING -- except his own benefit. Therefore, anyone or anything that openly supports him, no matter how vile, will have his support. Anyone who opposes him or poses a risk to him or fails to praise him will get attacked. This is true in every case, even his own cabinet. His own VP. Desantis. GOP Leadership. His family. Retired legacy politicians. Families of national heroes. It doesn't matter.
Trump doesn't give one shit about Desantis and will absolutely take him out in any way he can, unless Desantis can directly help Trump the individual.
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