2022 Midterm Elections: NO RED WAVE! - GOP Takes U.S. House; Dems Keep U.S. Senate

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

no they werent as vulnerable this year as they will be in 2022. democrats had a race they were going to easily lose in alabama. so they had to pick up four total seats instead of just two like they do in 2022. 2022 is obviously a better map for them...

They were as vulnerable as everyone expected the blue wave to take over and the Democrats take over the majority in the Senate. Just because a seat is up for grabs doesn’t necessarily mean that it will flip. This election cycle should have taught people that.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Democrats can't even get on code for these two important runoffs. They let the media run with the infighting narrative, AOC is outchea sending passive aggressive "YAAAASSS QUEEN!" tweets, and Joe Manchin has quadrupled down on his premise of, "Even if we win the senate, I'll willingly let Mitch McConnell obstruct."

Democrats are getting washed in 2022, and they deserve every bit of failure they get.

 

[BillBanneker]

And what about the rent issue? Those outstanding debts are going to have to be eliminated as well.

Biden has executive order power with student loans, not so much with Rent.

 

[FAH1223]

The one thing I wonder about with some of those candidates running is what happens next time they run when seats are up for grabs. A lot of money got poured into a lot of elections for some to end up losing by a pretty decent margin.

It makes a difference when time has passed and the momentum isn’t as high. That’s what happened here in MS. Two years ago, the Senate race here went to a runoff after racist rhetoric came from one of the candidates. This past election cycle, the same candidate won by a larger margin.

Presidential turnout fukked things this year...

But, midterms as we know has lower turnout and if Dems turnout like 2010 or 2014... there's no way they pickup Senate seats and they will lose 30-40 seats in the House easily.

Plus we have redistricting and reapportionment... GOP controls 40% of House seat redistricting cause of their control over so many state legislatures

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Biden has executive order power with student loans, not so much with Rent.

Didn’t Obama executive order to prevent the last crash from happening though? I feel like Biden will have to do something of that extent seeing as the banks will eventually come calling for a bailout if they don’t resolve that issue.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Presidential turnout fukked things this year...

But, midterms as we know has lower turnout and if Dems turnout like 2010 or 2014... there's no way they pickup Senate seats and they will lose 30-40 seats in the House easily.

Plus we have redistricting and reapportionment... GOP controls 40% of House seat redistricting cause of their control over so many state legislatures

I know I remember a few weeks ago that they were expecting the blue wave to help them further the margin in the House. Instead, they ended up losing seats and that’s why they had that call where they were upset trying to figure out what happened.

That’s why I feel like they actually need a plan in order to inspire people to vote again. They won’t have the luxury of using Trump as they did this election cycle.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

They were as vulnerable as everyone expected the blue wave to take over and the Democrats take over the majority in the Senate. Just because a seat is up for grabs doesn’t necessarily mean that it will flip. This election cycle should have taught people that.

the senate races in maine, north carolina and iowa were always polling close. just because there were a million articles written about a blue wave doesn’t mean those seats were any more vulnerable.

again, they have to get a net gain of two seats instead of three and they don’t have any states like alabama they have to defend. of course you still need to run good candidates, get the word out, run on message etc. but the map is not a bad place to be.

nobody is expecting the seats to automatically flip but any republican strategist will be scared looking at this map

 

[EndDomination]

They need to pump major time and money into outreach and getting more community engagement with members of the House.

It shouldn't be hard to retain the House -

 

[BillBanneker]

Didn’t Obama executive order to prevent the last crash from happening though? I feel like Biden will have to do something of that extent seeing as the banks will eventually come calling for a bailout if they don’t resolve that issue.

He signed a law that was passed by Congress (Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009), and it really didn't supersede the existing state law(s) relating to renting.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Presidential turnout fukked things this year...

But, midterms as we know has lower turnout and if Dems turnout like 2010 or 2014... there's no way they pickup Senate seats and they will lose 30-40 seats in the House easily.

Plus we have redistricting and reapportionment... GOP controls 40% of House seat redistricting cause of their control over so many state legislatures

It’s virtually no blue districts in those deep red states like the dakotas, Wyoming etc... Honestly to prevent gerrymandering Dems going to have to bring litigation

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

the senate races in maine, north carolina and iowa were always polling close. just because there were a million articles written about a blue wave doesn’t mean those seats were any more vulnerable.

again, they have to get a net gain of two seats instead of three and they don’t have any states like alabama they have to defend. of course you still need to run good candidates, get the word out, run on message etc. but the map is not a bad place to be.

nobody is expecting the seats to automatically flip but any republican strategist will be scared looking at this map

They were always polling, but the Democrats expected to win those seats. Even the markets did as well and that’s why they quelled on the original stimulus bill that was expected if the Democrats took over. The markets expected $2 billion and now they are expected Mitch to win power struggle in the end with a lower amount.

Who did you think was funneling the money into particular candidates to help the Democrats win? Big money power players who expected to get their ROI from the stimulus bill and consumers spending money. They just gotta realize that pumping millions into a particular candidate isn’t going to necessarily help them win or change how people truly feel.

 

[FAH1223]

It’s virtually no blue districts in those deep red states like the dakotas, Wyoming etc... Honestly to prevent gerrymandering Dems going to have to bring litigation

Look at Wisconsin and North Carolina though

Dems win 50% of the vote and they only get 35 seats in the state legislature in Wisconsin and GOP has 64 seats. How the fukk?

 

[BillBanneker]

I do think moral and enthusiasm will be a big issues for dems in 2022, no matter how successful Biden's agenda is to that point.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I do think moral and enthusiasm will be a big issues for dems in 2022, no matter how successful Biden's agenda is to that point.

Enthusiasm in voting matters more than people would like to think. I hope that the people in GA don’t feel like their job is done now that Trump is that. They need the same voter turnout in January to even have a chance of winning at least one seat.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Why don’t the Democrats ever demonize anyone? Republicans hate Nancy Pelosi because she a woman from San Francisco.

If Dems want to excite the base—since they won’t do it with polices—make Turtle a villain and make every ad about Turtle.

Wish they had the same energy British MPs got. Talk that fukkin shyt. Show what kinda demons the right got on their side. But naw, gotta reach across the aisle for phantom votes from moderate Rethugs.