And it looks like 2024 is when we'll flip North Carolina.Sabin wrote:... sigh….
[translation: Trump just announced]
(Conditional on economy, ofc.)
And it looks like 2024 is when we'll flip North Carolina.Sabin wrote:... sigh….
[translation: Trump just announced]
These awful, crazy candidates didn't just fall from the sky. They were chosen by Republican voters. Remember how many times the party establishment tried to abandon Trump only for them to meekly backpedal when they found out that the base would have none of it.Sabin wrote:Well, it finally happened. At least momentarily, the Arizona GOP became too crazy for Arizonans.
I'm trying not to get too elated or hopeful. I'm reminding myself that this is probably the one time in my life where Fox news isn't totally lying to me. If Donald Trump didn't endorse so many unelectable sycophants, they probably would've done quite a bit better. It wouldn't have been a "Red Tsunami," but they wouldn't have had to waste so much time and money figuring out whether their better bet was Hershel Walker or Mehmet Oz. At the very least, 2024 will put a host of perfectly good boogeyman in the rearview mirror. So long vaccine skepticism and CRT!
Side note: I'm eagerly awaiting to see how Tucker Carlson manages to turn the FTX/Binance debacle (easily the most fringe story of evaporating a billion dollars) into an anti-Democrat talking point without the answer being cryptocurrency regulation. I suspect it'll look something like Zoomer saber-rattling and "The Non-Profit Industrial Complex." But it probably doesn't bleed enough to lead because right now the story looks more like a bunch of crypto people losing money rather than seniors losing their retirements.
On the one hand, you're absolutely correct. On the other hand, my phone knows that I mean Wasserman when I type in Dave, Cohn when I type in Nate and Ralston when I type in Jon. It doesn't know Kornacki yet, but probably because I kept typing Kornicki at first.taki15 wrote:Up until election day the Democrats hoped that Republicans wouldn't pick up more than 25-30 seats. The fact that there is still a chance to maintain their majority is nothing short of amazing.Okri wrote:It's the hope that hurts.
Up until election day the Democrats hoped that Republicans wouldn't pick up more than 25-30 seats. The fact that there is still a chance to maintain their majority is nothing short of amazing.Okri wrote:It's the hope that hurts.
If it does end up being Kevin McCarthy. I've seen no indication that he's politically nimble enough for that to be a sure thing, especially when two-thirds of the GOP wants leadership's head and a third of the GOP is in a death cult.taki15 wrote
Republicans winning a slim and unworkable majority in the House isn't such bad outcome. They'll have the loonies like Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor-Green running the show and they'll almost certainly turn everything into a circus reinforcing the public's perception that the Republican party is unserious and/or incapable of governing. McCarthy will also be a good foil for Biden on the run up to 2024, like Newt Gingrich was to Clinton.
Republicans winning a slim and unworkable majority in the House isn't such bad outcome. They'll have the loonies like Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor-Green running the show and they'll almost certainly turn everything into a circus reinforcing the public's perception that the Republican party is unserious and/or incapable of governing. McCarthy will also be a good foil for Biden on the run up to 2024, like Newt Gingrich was to Clinton.Big Magilla wrote:Congratulations to my fellow veterans, Mark Kelly and Az. Secretary-of-State Elect Adrian Fontes, on this Veterans Day.
Losing the House, if that comes to be, will be horrific for the day-to-day crap we're going to have to endure for two more years, but losing the Senate would have meant a repeat of the nightmare Mitch McConnell put us through in the last two years of Obama's administration so the sooner they call Nevada for Cortez Masto the better.
But, yes, this is the best outcome for the sitting President's party in a midterm election since 1934 and the Democrats should indeed be gratified as should the majority of the American electorate.