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Abortion rights, all day long. Ultra religious talk and flirting with ideas gutting social security and Medicare was the nail in the coffin.
Jan 6 was awful but I could care less whether some thought the election wasn’t legit. Biden is President and that’s that. Could care less if some boys want to be girls or vice versa either.
Republicans should have stuck with economy/inflation, homelessness/crime and immigration period.
The fact the House and Senate are this close is dismal for the Republicans. With how bad the economy is and inflation the pubs should easily get the majority in the House by 30 40 seats.
And have 54 to 55 seats in the Senate. It's no coincidence its the Orange elephant in the room.
Which is why this is so strange, it felt like a big R night, the country needed to balance the power, Wall Street was expecting it to happen, something feels off even Dems can admit that.
If it was the other way around you would be skeptical. This is two cycles in a row where this has happened.
The later mail in votes in Arizona in 2020 tended to break towards Trump. Fact off the matter is you had a candidate and many in the party start screaming and spouting off conspiracy theories about mail in votes, it is not surprising that their supporters are less likely to vote by mail.
FWIW a local election here (Nassau Co Exec, which is not a small race in a county of 1.4 million) in 2009 changed with the absentee ballots days after the election. The incumbent Democrat Tom Suozzi (current NY-3 Congressman who retired this year) led on Election night and shortly thereafter. Republican Ed Mangano than overtook the lead with the absentee ballot count and wound up winning. Mangano turned out to be a crook, and is now in jail, but the win wasn't fraud, it wasn't some conspiracy, he won fairly when all the votes were counted.
3 million excess early retirements during covid. Retirees tend to head south.
Except it wasn’t just retirees heading south. Folks have simply left Dem states in droves due to how ridiculous Governors handled the plandemic…and Florida is expected to get around 900/day until 2025 and bringing their tax money with them….and Florida picked up 136K+ Republicans in 2022.
I think they will keep it the longer it takes to count these votes. Apparently they can have all the time they want again. I’m thinking the Rs get 216 seats with the Ds in the majority, this is the exact same as 2020. And of course the Dems will keep the senate.
That would be hilarious if Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the house again.
Looks like Hochul won the New York Governorship by ~300k votes. Interesting theory on the news last night was that the race probably would have edged to Republican victory if NY Republicans didn't migrate to Florida, and that is also why we are seeing large Republican shifts in Florida.
But New York has always been blue --- it's never going to be Republican.
Except it wasn’t just retirees heading south. Folks have simply left Dem states in droves due to how ridiculous Governors handled the plandemic…and Florida is expected to get around 900/day until 2025 and bringing their tax money with them.
I moved from Toronto Canada to the south -- and didn't even think of the politics.
And living in South Carolina, we did see many northerners buy up property here ...why? Because almost year round you can be outside and do things. They realized that winter sucks up north for most people unless you ski.
I remember in 2016 we knew the results the night and day after.
Couple of things to point out.
Were the races as close in 2016. From my recollection it wasn't so close in most states.
AND -- haven't we added more voters but not upgraded our voting systems. That puts a burden on those resources and may create obstacles to getting the votes counted in a more timely fashion.
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