"we believe that universal masking may be especially useful for mitigating effects of structural racism in schools, including potential deepening of educational inequities."
“Political season used to end the evening of Election Day or perhaps very early the next morning. People voted. Officials counted the ballots. Everyone learned what happened within a few hours. That was a good thing. It limited opportunities for fraud, such as election officials finding ballots after the fact. It also puts everyone on the same page when it comes to results. Given social media and the plethora of news sources, thatâs especially important.
But quick results are rarer these days. The Review-Journal decided not delay print deadlines for Nevada this election. The reason was simple. Itâs unlikely the delay would allow the paper to publish meaningful results.
Itâs worse around the country. âWhy midterms âelection nightâ will be more like âelection week,ââ ABC News reported Tuesday. America put a man on the moon more than five decades ago. Now, officials need days, instead of hours, to count votes. At least you canât blame this on the disastrous math education provided by Nevadaâs public schools. The culprit is the expansion of mail ballots.
Nevada now sends a mail ballot to every registered voter. The law provides that officials can count a ballot received after Election Day. Those ballots must be postmarked before or on Election Day and received by this Saturday. Worse, if a ballot is received by Friday and has a postmark where the date âcannot be determined,â itâs counted.
Nevada does do some things right. It allows county election officials to process and count ballots before Election Day. Nevada waits to release tabulations until the last person in line has voted. Thatâs annoying, but thereâs a good reason for it. You donât want to discourage voters because results from another part of the state make them believe a major race is over.
Universal mail ballots are a mistake. Theyâre ripe for fraud and voter intimidation. Signature verification is a joke, too. But if Nevada is going to have them, the state should require ballots to be received by Election Day or that ballots be postmarked by the end of early voting.
At least Nevada keeps counting ballots and releasing information. Clackamas County, Oregonâs third-biggest, said it will release results just after 8 p.m. Tuesday. Its next update will come at Wednesday at 6 p.m. Pennsylvania officials have warned that itâll take days to determine the winner of close races. They canât process and count mail ballots until Election Day. Michigan officials have also warned of delays because of a surge in absentee voters.
This makes election officials look incompetent. In places such as Maricopa County, Arizona, they donât need any help.
If someone wanted to erode civic trust, delays like this would be a pretty good place to start. Even if there isnât fraud, the information vacuum will often be filled with conspiracy theories.”
“During the COVID-19 lockdowns, American elections radically changed to mail-in and early voting. They did so in a wild variety of state-by-state ways. Add ranked voting and a required majority margin to the mess and the result is that once cherished Election Day balloting becomes increasingly irrelevant.
Election Night also no longer exists. Returns are not counted for days. It is intolerable for a modern democracy to wait and wait for all sorts of different ballots both cast and counted under radically different and sometimes dubious conditions.
The Democrats — with overwhelming media and money advantages — have mastered these arts of massive and unprecedented early, mail-in, and absentee voting. Old-fashioned Republicans count on riling up their voters to show up on Election Day. But it is far easier to finesse and control the mail-in ballots than to “get out the vote.”
The country is divided in more ways than ever. America’s interior just gets redder and the bicoastal corridors bluer.
Exceptional Republican gubernatorial or senatorial candidates like Lee Zeldin, Tudor Dixon, and Tiffany Smiley in blue states like New York, Michigan, or Washington cannot win upsets against even so-so Democratic incumbents — even during a supposedly bad election cycle for Democrats, laboring under a president with a 40 percent approval rating.
Similarly, media-spawned leftist heartthrobs like Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams can burn through hundreds of millions of dollars. But they still cannot unseat workmanlike Republican incumbents in Texas and Georgia.
Out-of-state immigration has only solidified these red-blue brand polarizations.
Over the last decade, millions of conservatives have fled California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania to Florida and Texas.
The former states got bluer as New York governors like Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul said good riddance to fleeing conservatives — who were welcomed as refugees to red “free states.”
As voters self-select residences on ideological grounds and the deleterious effect of blue-states’ governance, the country is gravitating into two antithetical nations. Americans vote not so much for individual personalities as blocs of incompatible parties, causes, and ideologies.
Debates count for little anymore, especially after the disastrous performance of winners Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman and Hochul.
Democrats often limited or avoided them altogether. And the Republican charging and complaining that they did so meant little at all.
Democrats still voted for Democratic candidates, regardless of Fetterman’s clear cognitive inability to serve in the Senate and despite President Joe Biden’s failures, harm to the middle class, and unpopularity.
Most Republicans are similar party loyalists, but not quite to the same degree — at least if some feared supporting a hardcore Trump-endorsed candidate might give them grief among family and friends.
Winning or losing means revving up party bases, not running as much on a variety of issues. Biden’s vicious attacks on conservatives as semi-fascists and un-American worked. When he recklessly warned that democracy’s death was synonymous with Democrats losing, he further inflamed his base.
Biden also goaded young people to vote by temporarily lowering gas prices through draining the strategic petroleum reserve, offering amnesty for marijuana offenses, and canceling half a trillion dollars of student loan debt. He told young women that they would die without unlimited abortions. And most of that mud stuck.
In contrast, Republicans wrongly assumed all voters, red and blue, sensibly cared most about spiking inflation, unaffordable food and fuel, an open border, and a disastrous foreign policy.”
Weird. It's not like there are any industries in Nevada famous for making quick calculations and dealing with numbers. Guess they just don't have the technology there! pic.twitter.com/9JJcEocANn
It makes it so much worse when it seems huge numbers of votes just start appearing out of the blue from all different corners: early voting, absentee voting, provisional votes, mailed votes, etc.
Even with zero fraud, a system like this will never be trusted. It's insanity.
If Trump genuinely is a unique threat that will bring the end of the Democratic Republic, then you back anyone you need to, to stop him. It's pretty obvious this is a play for eyeballs and always has been. They don't believe themselves.
The argument to forgive loans was that students were unable to afford basic needs with their crippling student loan debt and yet 73% are going to spend more on travel and dining out after debt forgiveness.
Democrat Stacey Abrams has called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to concede in their rematch for the governorâs seat, a race that garnered national attention. The Associated Press has not yet called the race. https://t.co/E7ZSnUJFzG
You can thank a lot of people for why Pennsylvania voters chose this mentally and physically impaired man who's wholly incapable of doing anything remotely significant, let alone serve in the Senate. pic.twitter.com/lIr9QG0EwT
“Itâs late as I write this, though not late enough to know how things will turn out. But there are things we can safely say just after midnight Eastern time on Tuesday as the vote counts roll in and the races get called.
One of them is that for all the anger weâve seen evidence of from Republican and independent voters, it seems pretty clear that channeling it into positive action is something beyond the reach of the GOPâs leadership and political class.
Is that a failure of that leadership? Well, yes. It is. And weâll spend weeks and months analyzing the fact that what was supposed to be a red wave election was more like a sea spray that might be just enough to take majorities in the House and Senate by the tiniest margins ⊠or perhaps not even that. And weâll be analyzing it within the context of the opportunity the GOP had in 2022 â and the party simply blew it.
This should have been a massive wave election. Given the low job approval ratings of the sitting president in his first midterm election, and given the favorable generic congressional ballot numbers, this should have been a plus-five wave in the Senate and a plus-30 wave, or bigger, in the House. It also should have resounded down to statehouses, and yet the GOP turns out, apparently, not to have been able to beat abysmal Democrat gubernatorial candidates like Katie Hobbs, Kathy Hochul, and Gretchen Whitmer.
There are so many utterly horrid Democrats who will remain in office after this election that it should be offensive to average Americans. Itâs tempting to fall into the trap of believing there must be wholesale corruption in American elections, but the problem with going there is that there must be proof before itâs actionable.
Until some is presented, weâll have to deal with something very unpleasant. Namely, hereâs the truth that we on the Right are going to have to accept: the American electorate in 2022 is awful.
And the axiom about the cycle that involves weak men and tough times is a real thing, and we are in the worst quadrant of that cycle.
We are still in the time in which weak men make tough times. We have not gotten to the point where tough times make tough men.
But get ready because those tough times will do their work. Perhaps for quite a long while.
Somehow, the Democrats and their pals in the legacy media managed to convince a large swath of Americans that weâre not in a recession. Four in five Americans are unsatisfied with the economy, a large majority seem to be furious about gas prices, people say crime is out of control, and yet barely half of the country â if that â are motivated to unload the horrid leadership that caused those issues.
Look at the state New York is in, and yet the voters there overwhelmingly chose to retain Hochul?
But gas prices will skyrocket thanks to the Biden administrationâs running out of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The true shortage of both crude oil and refined petroleum products will soon become unmistakable.
And itâs going to be a cold winter in America, and a rough time coming.
You only think itâs rough now. You have no idea how bad things can get. When the diesel fuel runs out and the trucks donât move, and the shelves go empty, and the layoffs come, perhaps youâll think of 2022 as the good times.
The responsibility of the American public was to deliver an utter rebuke to the Left and the Democrat Party that the Left runs, and the 2022 election was not a rebuke.
How you can perform so manifestly awfully in running a country like the United States of America over the past two years and not suffer a rebuke from the American public is mystifying. But the Democrats will perform even more manifestly awfully over the next two years.”
~ Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Wednesday on FNCâs âYour Worldâ that there was no red wave because voters feared former President Donald Trump and the candidates he endorsed were extremists.
Sununu said, âThere was clearly no red wave. Iâm not going to predict what comes out of President Bidenâs mouth because I donât think anybody, even he, can predict that at times. But clearly, America stood up and said, look, inflation is important, but we donât think the Republicans that wanted to go to Washington are the short-term fix for that right now. More than anything, America said we know we have to fix policy, but weâre going to fix extremism first. Thatâs the message I took. Not that Republicans were successful, but by and large, the most extreme republicans got voted out.â
He added, âI donât think the former president did many candidates any favors. Itâs not just him. I think there were other individuals. Lindsey Graham talking about abortion, nationalizing an abortion ban weeks before the election did no one any help. The discussion on Social Security and Medicare out of Washington that made people scared on that issue did nobody any help. The fact that, you know, there was a message out of D.C. that kept talking about getting rid of Pelosi and payback. Thatâs not what people want to see right now. They want to see people that will deliver results. So by and large, the messaging wasnât where it needed to be, and the quality of the candidate, the quality of the individual that has to connect with the voter, that really does matter to folks at the end of the day.â
Sununu added, âThe most major candidates he backed had trouble overcoming, not just him. It wasnât just about former President Trump, but overcoming that image that brand that tended to really scare people. Iâm surprised by it. I thought inflation was the key issue, and folks were going to look to them to solve it. Itâs a key issue, but they didnât think those folks would solve it, and the fear of that extremism overwhelmed them. That surprised me, to be sure. I didnât predict the results. I thought we were going to have a red wave. So it was more like a red ripple. It should have been stronger than it was.â ~
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Maybe he is done. Maybe heâs not. But he was the first System-disruptor. There will be many after him but he was the first. And Iâll always respect that. https://t.co/yqGStONWAO
Meanwhile, why the establishment Rs clutch their pearls….
The biggest problems right now in Arizona are Maricopa and Pima Counties. The Pima Recorder is even more political and less cooperative than Maricopa. It looks like these counties are slow-walking results, hoping to outlast our legal and other observers. Ainât gonna happen! đđ pic.twitter.com/mE65wS6aGl
Nevada elections official's update on the vote counts is a disaster. Reporters are trying to figure out the number of ballots that need to be counted, where they come from, and when it will be done. The official is visibly frustrated pic.twitter.com/XmcN4sYZpn
OPINIONREVIEW & OUTLOOK
Trump Is the Republican Partyâs Biggest Loser
He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
By The Editorial Board
~ … Since his unlikely victory in 2016 against the widely disliked Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump has a perfect record of electoral defeat. The GOP was pounded in the 2018 midterms owing to his low approval rating. Mr. Trump himself lost in 2020. He then sabotaged Georgiaâs 2021 runoffs by blaming party leaders for not somehow overturning his defeat. That gave Democrats control of the Senate, letting President Biden pump up inflation with a $1.9 trillion Covid bill, appoint a liberal Supreme Court Justice, and pass a $700 billion climate spending hash.
Now Mr. Trump has botched the 2022 elections, and it could hand Democrats the Senate for two more years. Mr. Trump had policy successes as President, including tax cuts and deregulation, but he has led Republicans into one political fiasco after another.
âWeâre going to win so much,â Mr. Trump once said, âthat youâre going to get sick and tired of winning.â Maybe by now Republicans are sick and tired of losing. ~
Election results should be known as soon as possible; not necessarily that night. Outside of the US, western democracies usually have the results by the end of the night. However, the ballot is simple in proportional representation countries you just vote for the party and you’re done. In other first past the post countries you vote for one person and you’re done. American ballots are far more complicated. Americans vote for everything. Its not third world voting systems its American exceptionalism
You can quicken the pace by counting votes prior to election day without announcing results. You can allow the voter to simply press a ticket vote without going through the whole ballot. In the end, a close race is a good sign and a slow careful count is also a sign of a healthy democracy.
Hanson’s analysis is weird. I don’t see a lot of red and blue states. The 51-49 split in several races indicates a purple state and not polarization.
DeSantis won the Cuban vote not the Latino vote. People who don’t understand the difference shouldn’t analyze elections.
The Spectator article is amusing. I read similar ones on the left side of the internet. Its the same premise; How can half the country be so stupid? But in this case Republicans might want to listen to Sununu. There appeared to be a sense of entitlement – its the mid terms, Biden is unpopular, inflation is over the top, etc – therefore people should vote Republicans. Yet Republicans never explained why people should.
Meanwhile, $15 an hour sold in Nebraska, legal marijuana in Missouri and abortion ban was turned down in Kentucky. Even Republican states like the Democratic platform. Instead of debating who to investigate and how to impeach Biden, maybe the Republicans could convince Americans they had the right ideas into the future.
Donald Trump trashes Ron DeSantis as âaverage Republican Governorâ
~ Former President Donald Trump has removed all ambiguity about his feelings about Ron DeSantis.
In a searing statement from Trumpâs Save America PAC, Trump unleashed on DeSantis as just an âaverage Republican Governorâ propped up by Fox News and related properties.
âNewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post (bring back Col!), is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations … ”
… DeSantis has not engaged an increasingly vexed and vocal Trump, despite having a rapid response operation at the ready. Thursdayâs statement was the latest shot in a series of Trumpian blasts of the Governor.
Trump took to Truth Social to diminish DeSantisâ accomplishment Wednesday.
âNow that the Election in Florida is over, and everything went quite well, shouldnât it be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 Million more votes in Florida than Ron D got this year, 5.7 Million to 4.6 Million? Just asking?â
Trump derided DeSantis on NewsNation and Fox News in reports that ran Election Day. He recycled his claim that he carried DeSantis to the Governorâs Mansion in 2018 and threatened to spill secrets about the Governor should DeSantis run in 2024.
âHe was not going to be able to even be a factor in the race. And as soon as I endorsed him, within moments, the race was over,â Trump said. âI got him the nomination. He didnât get it. I got it, because the minute I made that endorsement, he got it.â
âThen he ran, and he wasnât supposed to be able to win,â Trump said, describing the Governorâs race against Democrat Andrew Gillum. âI did two rallies, we had 52,000 people each one and he won. I thought that he could have been more gracious. But thatâs up to him.â
âI would tell you things about him that wonât be very flattering â I know more about him than anybody â other than, perhaps, his wife,â Trump added, per Fox News. ~
Wandering Views 
The idiocy never ends.
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The counting continues, because in 3rd world country’s like ours these things take time…
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The media seems to be handling the loss in Florida well. đ
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Ya think?
“Election results should be known election night”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/victor-joecks-election-results-should-be-known-election-night/ar-AA13TWQS
“Political season used to end the evening of Election Day or perhaps very early the next morning. People voted. Officials counted the ballots. Everyone learned what happened within a few hours. That was a good thing. It limited opportunities for fraud, such as election officials finding ballots after the fact. It also puts everyone on the same page when it comes to results. Given social media and the plethora of news sources, thatâs especially important.
But quick results are rarer these days. The Review-Journal decided not delay print deadlines for Nevada this election. The reason was simple. Itâs unlikely the delay would allow the paper to publish meaningful results.
Itâs worse around the country. âWhy midterms âelection nightâ will be more like âelection week,ââ ABC News reported Tuesday. America put a man on the moon more than five decades ago. Now, officials need days, instead of hours, to count votes. At least you canât blame this on the disastrous math education provided by Nevadaâs public schools. The culprit is the expansion of mail ballots.
Nevada now sends a mail ballot to every registered voter. The law provides that officials can count a ballot received after Election Day. Those ballots must be postmarked before or on Election Day and received by this Saturday. Worse, if a ballot is received by Friday and has a postmark where the date âcannot be determined,â itâs counted.
Nevada does do some things right. It allows county election officials to process and count ballots before Election Day. Nevada waits to release tabulations until the last person in line has voted. Thatâs annoying, but thereâs a good reason for it. You donât want to discourage voters because results from another part of the state make them believe a major race is over.
Universal mail ballots are a mistake. Theyâre ripe for fraud and voter intimidation. Signature verification is a joke, too. But if Nevada is going to have them, the state should require ballots to be received by Election Day or that ballots be postmarked by the end of early voting.
At least Nevada keeps counting ballots and releasing information. Clackamas County, Oregonâs third-biggest, said it will release results just after 8 p.m. Tuesday. Its next update will come at Wednesday at 6 p.m. Pennsylvania officials have warned that itâll take days to determine the winner of close races. They canât process and count mail ballots until Election Day. Michigan officials have also warned of delays because of a surge in absentee voters.
This makes election officials look incompetent. In places such as Maricopa County, Arizona, they donât need any help.
If someone wanted to erode civic trust, delays like this would be a pretty good place to start. Even if there isnât fraud, the information vacuum will often be filled with conspiracy theories.”
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Victor Davis Hanson answers a good question.
“What, if anything, did the midterms tell us about the country — other than underwhelming Republicans could still take the House and Senate?”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/10/tuesday_takeaways_148450.html
“During the COVID-19 lockdowns, American elections radically changed to mail-in and early voting. They did so in a wild variety of state-by-state ways. Add ranked voting and a required majority margin to the mess and the result is that once cherished Election Day balloting becomes increasingly irrelevant.
Election Night also no longer exists. Returns are not counted for days. It is intolerable for a modern democracy to wait and wait for all sorts of different ballots both cast and counted under radically different and sometimes dubious conditions.
The Democrats — with overwhelming media and money advantages — have mastered these arts of massive and unprecedented early, mail-in, and absentee voting. Old-fashioned Republicans count on riling up their voters to show up on Election Day. But it is far easier to finesse and control the mail-in ballots than to “get out the vote.”
The country is divided in more ways than ever. America’s interior just gets redder and the bicoastal corridors bluer.
Exceptional Republican gubernatorial or senatorial candidates like Lee Zeldin, Tudor Dixon, and Tiffany Smiley in blue states like New York, Michigan, or Washington cannot win upsets against even so-so Democratic incumbents — even during a supposedly bad election cycle for Democrats, laboring under a president with a 40 percent approval rating.
Similarly, media-spawned leftist heartthrobs like Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams can burn through hundreds of millions of dollars. But they still cannot unseat workmanlike Republican incumbents in Texas and Georgia.
Out-of-state immigration has only solidified these red-blue brand polarizations.
Over the last decade, millions of conservatives have fled California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania to Florida and Texas.
The former states got bluer as New York governors like Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul said good riddance to fleeing conservatives — who were welcomed as refugees to red “free states.”
As voters self-select residences on ideological grounds and the deleterious effect of blue-states’ governance, the country is gravitating into two antithetical nations. Americans vote not so much for individual personalities as blocs of incompatible parties, causes, and ideologies.
Debates count for little anymore, especially after the disastrous performance of winners Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman and Hochul.
Democrats often limited or avoided them altogether. And the Republican charging and complaining that they did so meant little at all.
Democrats still voted for Democratic candidates, regardless of Fetterman’s clear cognitive inability to serve in the Senate and despite President Joe Biden’s failures, harm to the middle class, and unpopularity.
Most Republicans are similar party loyalists, but not quite to the same degree — at least if some feared supporting a hardcore Trump-endorsed candidate might give them grief among family and friends.
Winning or losing means revving up party bases, not running as much on a variety of issues. Biden’s vicious attacks on conservatives as semi-fascists and un-American worked. When he recklessly warned that democracy’s death was synonymous with Democrats losing, he further inflamed his base.
Biden also goaded young people to vote by temporarily lowering gas prices through draining the strategic petroleum reserve, offering amnesty for marijuana offenses, and canceling half a trillion dollars of student loan debt. He told young women that they would die without unlimited abortions. And most of that mud stuck.
In contrast, Republicans wrongly assumed all voters, red and blue, sensibly cared most about spiking inflation, unaffordable food and fuel, an open border, and a disastrous foreign policy.”
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Incompetent clowns run elections now….
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See the problem?
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Clowns always have clown takes. đ
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Yes, thank you for making other people pay the bill we ran up for our useless degree.
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Just go away.
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Racist much there Chuck?
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I keep telling you, I’m surrounded by idiots.
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The clear frontrunner for 2024.
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Apparently….
“Maybe America hasn’t suffered enough yet”
https://spectator.org/maybe-america-hasnt-suffered-enough/
“Itâs late as I write this, though not late enough to know how things will turn out. But there are things we can safely say just after midnight Eastern time on Tuesday as the vote counts roll in and the races get called.
One of them is that for all the anger weâve seen evidence of from Republican and independent voters, it seems pretty clear that channeling it into positive action is something beyond the reach of the GOPâs leadership and political class.
Is that a failure of that leadership? Well, yes. It is. And weâll spend weeks and months analyzing the fact that what was supposed to be a red wave election was more like a sea spray that might be just enough to take majorities in the House and Senate by the tiniest margins ⊠or perhaps not even that. And weâll be analyzing it within the context of the opportunity the GOP had in 2022 â and the party simply blew it.
This should have been a massive wave election. Given the low job approval ratings of the sitting president in his first midterm election, and given the favorable generic congressional ballot numbers, this should have been a plus-five wave in the Senate and a plus-30 wave, or bigger, in the House. It also should have resounded down to statehouses, and yet the GOP turns out, apparently, not to have been able to beat abysmal Democrat gubernatorial candidates like Katie Hobbs, Kathy Hochul, and Gretchen Whitmer.
There are so many utterly horrid Democrats who will remain in office after this election that it should be offensive to average Americans. Itâs tempting to fall into the trap of believing there must be wholesale corruption in American elections, but the problem with going there is that there must be proof before itâs actionable.
Until some is presented, weâll have to deal with something very unpleasant. Namely, hereâs the truth that we on the Right are going to have to accept: the American electorate in 2022 is awful.
And the axiom about the cycle that involves weak men and tough times is a real thing, and we are in the worst quadrant of that cycle.
We are still in the time in which weak men make tough times. We have not gotten to the point where tough times make tough men.
But get ready because those tough times will do their work. Perhaps for quite a long while.
Somehow, the Democrats and their pals in the legacy media managed to convince a large swath of Americans that weâre not in a recession. Four in five Americans are unsatisfied with the economy, a large majority seem to be furious about gas prices, people say crime is out of control, and yet barely half of the country â if that â are motivated to unload the horrid leadership that caused those issues.
Look at the state New York is in, and yet the voters there overwhelmingly chose to retain Hochul?
But gas prices will skyrocket thanks to the Biden administrationâs running out of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The true shortage of both crude oil and refined petroleum products will soon become unmistakable.
And itâs going to be a cold winter in America, and a rough time coming.
You only think itâs rough now. You have no idea how bad things can get. When the diesel fuel runs out and the trucks donât move, and the shelves go empty, and the layoffs come, perhaps youâll think of 2022 as the good times.
The responsibility of the American public was to deliver an utter rebuke to the Left and the Democrat Party that the Left runs, and the 2022 election was not a rebuke.
How you can perform so manifestly awfully in running a country like the United States of America over the past two years and not suffer a rebuke from the American public is mystifying. But the Democrats will perform even more manifestly awfully over the next two years.”
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Clowns.
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NH Gov. Sununu:
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~ Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Wednesday on FNCâs âYour Worldâ that there was no red wave because voters feared former President Donald Trump and the candidates he endorsed were extremists.
Sununu said, âThere was clearly no red wave. Iâm not going to predict what comes out of President Bidenâs mouth because I donât think anybody, even he, can predict that at times. But clearly, America stood up and said, look, inflation is important, but we donât think the Republicans that wanted to go to Washington are the short-term fix for that right now. More than anything, America said we know we have to fix policy, but weâre going to fix extremism first. Thatâs the message I took. Not that Republicans were successful, but by and large, the most extreme republicans got voted out.â
He added, âI donât think the former president did many candidates any favors. Itâs not just him. I think there were other individuals. Lindsey Graham talking about abortion, nationalizing an abortion ban weeks before the election did no one any help. The discussion on Social Security and Medicare out of Washington that made people scared on that issue did nobody any help. The fact that, you know, there was a message out of D.C. that kept talking about getting rid of Pelosi and payback. Thatâs not what people want to see right now. They want to see people that will deliver results. So by and large, the messaging wasnât where it needed to be, and the quality of the candidate, the quality of the individual that has to connect with the voter, that really does matter to folks at the end of the day.â
Sununu added, âThe most major candidates he backed had trouble overcoming, not just him. It wasnât just about former President Trump, but overcoming that image that brand that tended to really scare people. Iâm surprised by it. I thought inflation was the key issue, and folks were going to look to them to solve it. Itâs a key issue, but they didnât think those folks would solve it, and the fear of that extremism overwhelmed them. That surprised me, to be sure. I didnât predict the results. I thought we were going to have a red wave. So it was more like a red ripple. It should have been stronger than it was.â ~
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Clowns run the show.
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And we should take the liberal NT RINO’s take why exactly?
I love how the establishment types keep losing and its always Trumps fault.
News flash, he doesn’t run these losing elections. The RNC, McConnell and graham’s PACs do.
But keep blaming Trump, that’s working so well. đ
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All Trump can do is endorse and campaign for folks.
If R voters don’t like him, hey don’t listen.
But they did, because they do, and that’s what RINO NTers hate most.
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Meanwhile, why the establishment Rs clutch their pearls….
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Starting to sound like Democrats, everything is The Bad Orange Man’s fault….
Boo hoo we’re just victims.
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Disgraceful.
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Hmmmmm…
How can we blame Trump for this?
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-is-the-gops-biggest-loser-midterm-elections-senate-house-congress-republicans-11668034869?st=xby5p61xignnk0z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Seems to be over.
OPINIONREVIEW & OUTLOOK
Trump Is the Republican Partyâs Biggest Loser
He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
By The Editorial Board
~ … Since his unlikely victory in 2016 against the widely disliked Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump has a perfect record of electoral defeat. The GOP was pounded in the 2018 midterms owing to his low approval rating. Mr. Trump himself lost in 2020. He then sabotaged Georgiaâs 2021 runoffs by blaming party leaders for not somehow overturning his defeat. That gave Democrats control of the Senate, letting President Biden pump up inflation with a $1.9 trillion Covid bill, appoint a liberal Supreme Court Justice, and pass a $700 billion climate spending hash.
Now Mr. Trump has botched the 2022 elections, and it could hand Democrats the Senate for two more years. Mr. Trump had policy successes as President, including tax cuts and deregulation, but he has led Republicans into one political fiasco after another.
âWeâre going to win so much,â Mr. Trump once said, âthat youâre going to get sick and tired of winning.â Maybe by now Republicans are sick and tired of losing. ~
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Election results should be known as soon as possible; not necessarily that night. Outside of the US, western democracies usually have the results by the end of the night. However, the ballot is simple in proportional representation countries you just vote for the party and you’re done. In other first past the post countries you vote for one person and you’re done. American ballots are far more complicated. Americans vote for everything. Its not third world voting systems its American exceptionalism
You can quicken the pace by counting votes prior to election day without announcing results. You can allow the voter to simply press a ticket vote without going through the whole ballot. In the end, a close race is a good sign and a slow careful count is also a sign of a healthy democracy.
Hanson’s analysis is weird. I don’t see a lot of red and blue states. The 51-49 split in several races indicates a purple state and not polarization.
DeSantis won the Cuban vote not the Latino vote. People who don’t understand the difference shouldn’t analyze elections.
The Spectator article is amusing. I read similar ones on the left side of the internet. Its the same premise; How can half the country be so stupid? But in this case Republicans might want to listen to Sununu. There appeared to be a sense of entitlement – its the mid terms, Biden is unpopular, inflation is over the top, etc – therefore people should vote Republicans. Yet Republicans never explained why people should.
Meanwhile, $15 an hour sold in Nebraska, legal marijuana in Missouri and abortion ban was turned down in Kentucky. Even Republican states like the Democratic platform. Instead of debating who to investigate and how to impeach Biden, maybe the Republicans could convince Americans they had the right ideas into the future.
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And the infighting begins.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/571152-donald-trump-trashes-ron-desantis-as-average-republican-governor/
Donald Trump trashes Ron DeSantis as âaverage Republican Governorâ
~ Former President Donald Trump has removed all ambiguity about his feelings about Ron DeSantis.
In a searing statement from Trumpâs Save America PAC, Trump unleashed on DeSantis as just an âaverage Republican Governorâ propped up by Fox News and related properties.
âNewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post (bring back Col!), is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations … ”
… DeSantis has not engaged an increasingly vexed and vocal Trump, despite having a rapid response operation at the ready. Thursdayâs statement was the latest shot in a series of Trumpian blasts of the Governor.
Trump took to Truth Social to diminish DeSantisâ accomplishment Wednesday.
âNow that the Election in Florida is over, and everything went quite well, shouldnât it be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 Million more votes in Florida than Ron D got this year, 5.7 Million to 4.6 Million? Just asking?â
Trump derided DeSantis on NewsNation and Fox News in reports that ran Election Day. He recycled his claim that he carried DeSantis to the Governorâs Mansion in 2018 and threatened to spill secrets about the Governor should DeSantis run in 2024.
âHe was not going to be able to even be a factor in the race. And as soon as I endorsed him, within moments, the race was over,â Trump said. âI got him the nomination. He didnât get it. I got it, because the minute I made that endorsement, he got it.â
âThen he ran, and he wasnât supposed to be able to win,â Trump said, describing the Governorâs race against Democrat Andrew Gillum. âI did two rallies, we had 52,000 people each one and he won. I thought that he could have been more gracious. But thatâs up to him.â
âI would tell you things about him that wonât be very flattering â I know more about him than anybody â other than, perhaps, his wife,â Trump added, per Fox News. ~
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