Mid-Term Elections 2022. Hey Jack, I Was Right
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The New York Times, also throwing Biden* under the bus
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As Elections Approach, Biden Spins His Economic Record
The president’s recent comments on Social Security, the deficit and economic growth claim credit where it is not always due.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/us/politics/biden-midterms-social-s
ecurity.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
How are the publications going to memory -hole these observations after the midterms, and try to restore Biden's* credibility? Or are they going to ditch him after the midterms?
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Yanno, once upon a time some were hyperventilating about Trump's "finger on the button".
And yet, we have a clearly mentally incompetent Biden* with his finger on the button. Where's the hyperventilation now?
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Republicans Will Sweep Both House And Senate: Stifel
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/republicans-will-sweep-both-house-an
d-senate-stifel-potomac-perspective
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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So I dutifully went thru my ballot pamphlet, and (where it didn't have the info) went online to get candidate statements and I gotta say, I'm particularly unimpressed with candidates of both parties this year.
One unfortunate consequence of open primaries is that, since only the top two vote-getters appear on the ballot, there's only D or R (or sometimes only D and D) on the ballot
If your state ever considers open primaries and you get asked about it, just say no. It becomes a two-party lock on your elections
Aside from that, people are running on campaigns far beyond their remit. I know I posted before, but my City Council is not about to make housing affordable and end homelessness (or, alternately, work hard for everything for everybody). What about just delivering clean water, making sure our schools work, planting more trees, and funding our police?
My Scy State is not about to guarantee abortion rights or, alternately, make it "easier to elect officials to fight crime". How about cleaning up the voter rolls, ensuring a secure vote and an accurate vote count?
Over-promises seem to be especially bad this year.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Only one day to go and the COPE headlines are hilarious! 
CNN: On Election Eve, Dems Confront Nightmare Scenario
LAT: Dems Are Glum, But Will Midterms Bring a Nov Surprise?
USA Today: 'Save Our Kids': Suburban Women Move to GOP
Slate: Herschel Walker's Senate Run Not Really About the Senate
NYT: Dancing Near the Edge of a Lost Democracy
The Hill: Republican Hatred and Lies Are Winning In a Landslide
The Grio: Voter Apathy, Suppression Could Lead to GOP Wave
24 hours left.
Tick Tock
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Quote:The Marjorie Taylor Greene-ing of America
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Only one day to go and the COPE headlines are hilarious!
CNN: On Election Eve, Dems Confront Nightmare Scenario
LAT: Dems Are Glum, But Will Midterms Bring a Nov Surprise?
USA Today: 'Save Our Kids': Suburban Women Move to GOP
Slate: Herschel Walker's Senate Run Not Really About the Senate
NYT: Dancing Near the Edge of a Lost Democracy
The Hill: Republican Hatred and Lies Are Winning In a Landslide
The Grio: Voter Apathy, Suppression Could Lead to GOP Wave
24 hours left.
Tick Tock
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Nov. 5, 2022
By Maureen Dowd
WASHINGTON — Are we ready for our new Republican overlords?
Are we ready for an empowered Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Are we ready for a pumped-up, pistol-packing Lauren Boebert?
“How many AR-15s do you think Jesus would have had?” Boebert asked a crowd at a Christian campaign event in June. I’m going with none, honestly, but her answer was, “Well, he didn’t have enough to keep his government from killing him.”
The Denver Post pleaded: “We beg voters in western and southern Colorado not to give Rep. Lauren Boebert their vote.”
The freshman representative has recently been predicting happily that we’re in the end times, “the last of the last days.” If Lauren Boebert is in charge, we may want to be in the end times. I’m feeling not so Rapturous about the prospect.
And then there’s the future first female president, Kari Lake, who lulls you into believing, with her mellifluous voice, statements that seem to emanate from Lucifer. She’s dangerous because, like Donald Trump, she has real skills from her years in TV. And she really believes this stuff, unlike Trump and Kevin McCarthy, who are faking it.
As Cecily Strong said on “Saturday Night Live” last weekend, embodying Lake, “If the people of Arizona elect me, I’ll make sure they never have to vote ever again.”
Speaking of “Paradise Lost,” how about Ron DeSantis? The governor of Florida, who’s running for a second term, is airing an ad that suggests that he was literally anointed by God to fight Democrats. God almighty, that’s some high-level endorsement.
Much to our national shame, it looks like these over-the-top and way, way, way out-of-the mainstream Republicans — and the formerly normie and now creepy Republicans who have bent the knee to the wackos out of political expediency — are going to be running the House, maybe the Senate and certainly some states, perhaps even some that Joe Biden won two years ago.
And it looks as if Kevin McCarthy will finally realize his goal of becoming speaker, but when he speaks, it will be Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan and Lauren Boebert doing the spewing. It will be like the devil growling through Linda Blair in “The Exorcist” — except it will be our heads spinning.
Welcome to a rogue’s gallery of crazy: Clay Higgins, who’s spouting conspiracy theories about Paul Pelosi, wants to run the House Homeland Security Committee; Paul Gosar, whose own family has begged Arizonans to eject him from Congress, will be persona grata in the new majority.
In North Carolina, Bo Hines, a Republican candidate for the House, wants community panels to decide whether rape victims are able to get abortions or not. He’s building on Dr. Oz’s dictum that local politicians should help make that call. Even Oprah turned on her creation, Dr. Odd.
J.D. Vance, the Yale-educated, former Silicon Valley venture capitalist and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” who called Trump “America’s Hitler” in 2016, before saluting him to gain public office, could join the Senate in January. Talk about American Elegy.
Even though he wrote in his best seller that Yale Law School was his “dream school,” he now trashes the very system that birthed him. Last year, he gave a speech titled “The Universities Are the Enemy”: His mother-in-law is a provost at the University of California San Diego.
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Originally posted by second:
Heaven help us.
Cry some more you little bitch.
It's not as if you weren't warned.
We survived 2 years of Biden* with unchecked power. We'll survive 2 years of neutered Biden*.
If I were you, Maureen, I'd be much more worried about polishing up your resume than anything else. Your time as a "journalist" is coming to an end.
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What happened to the massive red wave some here said was coming? Where'd it go? The fact that there wasn't one means the Republicans suffered a historic defeat at the polls. Their failure to deliver in these mid-terms is as I said, historic.
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Quote:The chance that Democrats win the Senate and Republicans win the House
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Cry some more you little bitch.
It's not as if you weren't warned.
We survived 2 years of Biden* with unchecked power. We'll survive 2 years of neutered Biden*.
If I were you, Maureen, I'd be much more worried about polishing up your resume than anything else. Your time as a "journalist" is coming to an end.
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27 in 100
More at https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/
When we launched our midterms forecast on June 30, Republicans had a 53 percent chance of taking over the Senate from Democrats, and an 87 percent chance of taking over the House.
We could almost have turned our servers off and let that forecast stand. Today, in our final forecast of the cycle, Republicans have a 59 percent chance of winning the Senate and an 84 percent chance of winning the House.
Before I dig deeper into this ostensible stability, a few words about the probabilistic nature of our forecast.
More at https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-2022-election-forecast/
2022 Election: Live Analysis and Results
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2022-midterm-election/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Americans take a stand for decency as the GOP red wave turns to dust, surprising all of us
I'll posit that Americans don’t love it when a political party broadly embraces a bullying figure like former President Donald Trump. They don’t take kindly to candidates who deny election results.
This isn't just a win for Democrats – it's a win for decency
I’m sure Republicans will still find a way to crow about their far-lower-than-expected gains.
More at https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/11/09/midterm-elections-de
mocrats-trump-republicans-red-wave/8307501001/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Americans take a stand for decency as the GOP red wave turns to dust, surprising all of us
I'll posit that Americans don’t love it when a political party broadly embraces a bullying figure like former President Donald Trump. They don’t take kindly to candidates who deny election results.
This isn't just a win for Democrats – it's a win for decency
I’m sure Republicans will still find a way to crow about their far-lower-than-expected gains.
More at https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/11/09/midterm-elections-de
mocrats-trump-republicans-red-wave/8307501001/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
LOL
Yeah. Keep being "decent". We've seen on video and Twitter how "decent" Democrats are.
I'm rooting for Dems to maintain control of everything right now. Make gains in the Senate, win the runoff in Georgia. Hold the GOP at bay in the House.
The next two years were going to be rough either way, but now they're going to be painful.
Let's see if the lessons are learned after two years of the upcoming record winter heating bills. And maybe now that Biden* vowed to end oil drilling we'll see a different result when gas is $10 a gallon.
I wonder how many people who were too lazy to vote yesterday are going to have somebody they care about murdered in the next two years. Or die of Covid boosters. Or get raped by a mentally ill man in the woman's bathroom. I bet that will wake them up.
In the meantime, I fully expect Democrats to honor their promises and finally get around to codifying Roe v. Wade, and enshrine Social Security in perpetuity, raise the minimum wage to $15, and free medical care for all, as well as dismantling the Electoral College in the next two years. /sarcasm
We know you're not going to do any of that. So in the meantime can the House finally get around to passing the unanimous Senate bill to put an end to Daylight Savings Time.
Thanks!
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