I expected Republicans to win competitive governorships, the House easily and be favored to win the Senate.
First we actually lost nearly every fucking single competitive governor race.
I am stunned that we lost all of these so called competitive governor races: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kansas, New Mexico, Maine, Oregon.
I thank God that we somehow won governorships in Iowa, Ohio, Texas, Georgia and did amazing in the Florida governor race.
Kari Lake might even lose. I am livid. How the fuck does this happen?
We lost congressional house districts today in places that I never thought we would lose this year. We lost tossup congress races in fucking Ohio.
The Senate is a nightmare. Oz lost to Fetterman without the Dems even stopping the count and flooding it with mail in ballots.
Dems likely going to keep the Senate
We barely flip the House at this rate. I swear if we somehow fail to flip the House.
Today was worse than 2020.
I thank God that in my state, Texas, Republicans atleast won every statewide race.
Ronna McDaniel, Rick Scott, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump all fucked up massively with messaging, candidate selection and cohesion.
The impact of the repeal of Roe v Wade, 1/6, Trump's shitty primary picks and woke college educated whites turning out massively harmed us so much.
They never fixed the 2020-style fraud. Except Florida where Reps won big, imagine that.
Edit: Plus it's not just a fight against the Dems. It's also a fight against the GOP RINOs who intentionally sabotaged some of the race. Retaining power within the party is more important to them than winning. They'd rather rule over the ashes of the Republican party than share power.
I've said this many times.
You can't vote your way out of socialist tyranny.
So many races were within a couple percentages.
Waiting for one of you 'voting doesn't work' guys to do something useful. You might as well be voting dem
Yes that's how fraud works. That's why their districts always count late and wait until the red districts have already reported. That's what it looks like when there's a lot of thumbs on a lot of scales.
It was close so it couldn't be fraud!
Did you really just say that??
There is no political solution. :)
I'm hearing that zoomers turned out for the left by something like 3 to 1, and it isn't surprising. The far left has effectively taken control of academia, child education, social media and entertainment.
They have created a very thorough indoctrination pipeline that directs every thought from the moment people wake up until they go to bed. This is why the rates of kids trooning out is so high, and why every single thing that happens is cause for a nuclear meltdown in their minds. This has been done to create a class of perpetually further left voters, and voting isn't going to fix this.
I heard that they ran out of paper, ink and working ballot machines.
Yes there was fraud shit happening in Maricopa in Arizona. Philly in PA and Detroit in Michigan but we cannot say every single house race that was a disaster was also due to just fraud.
Republicans underperformed so much in congressional house races.
I can understand fraud being the reason for Fetterman "winning" over Oz but not most competitive house districts.
How did JD Vance win Ohio but JR Majewski lost to Marcy Kaptur in a Trump +3 house district?
So much fucking nonsense today.
We cannot just hand wave it everything on fraud.
We definitely need to work on election integrity sure but the Ds still control every rustbelt governorship.
I thought Michels would atleast beat Evers in WI but he surprisingly lost.
Mastriano was always looking bad in PA so I never had much hope there.
I thought Dixon might have a chance in MI but the abortion referendum helped Whitmer pull through.
You should go vote for mitt romney instead you dipshit lmao.
Or wake the fuck up and stop doing the retarded rain dance all together, but you obviously do not have the mental capacity for that, since you ask this midwit question in the first place. What the fuck do you imagine would change exactly, if all those races were won? Literally nothing you spastic loser, they didn't do shit after 2020, fortification happened again, and they will do nothing about it again.
The result is only bad in the sense, that it wasn't a democrat wipeout and didn't radicalize sufficient amount of people. Keeping the results close to the wire has a deradicalizing effect, which is the actual metric by which you judge the outcome. Losing or winning 51/49 doesn't radicalize enough people to do what needs to be done. But entropy marches on, the people in charge are lunatics that cannot help themselves, it will crash eventually, eventually people will cradle their dead family members that died of exposure and starvation and then finally will change happen. Until then, the only question to ask is how much has this collapse been delayed or accelerated by the result of the "vote".
“Yeah there was rampant fraud, and yeah the corrupt media are still in the tank for democrats, and yeah we ran a bunch of weak candidates, and yeah scotus randomly overturning roe v wade got out the leftist vote… but this is all Trump’s fault.”
Are you fucking retarded?
Did you not see that I have already made every point you state here.
I didn't say it was all Trump'a fault. Roe, the corrupt media, Trump's shitty primary picks, terrible GOP leaders and shit messaging all fucked us this cycle.
If we want to win 2024, we will have to reflect on why we lost so many races yesterday and make some hard changes.
I will say that Trump 2024 is a terrible idea though.
But in all honesty, you thought that before this event as well, and the reason for that is the vaccine - on which you do not agree with most people.
You can't blame this on "poor candidates", because GOP House candidates almost everywhere underperformed, even untainted by those "poor candidates".
No one cares about 1/6. But I did warn you about abortion, and how damaging Mastriano's position was. I'm glad you are starting to see the issue there. You are correct that hand-waving about 'MASSIVE FRAUD!!!' will prevent people from seeing the issue.
Abortion fucked Republicans so hard in competitive races.
So many people here will be mad at me for saying this but I wish Roe was not overruled.
I am personally vehemently against the murder of the unborn but if allowing abortions in the first 15 weeks with exemptions for rape/incest allows us to prevent Dem one party rule, we would be fools to not do so.
It is truly a shame what is happening to the unborn but everyone alive right now in America will be completely fucked forever if Republicans don't adjust their abortion positions to be less hardline.
J6 didn't harm all of the candidates but candidates present on J6 like Mastriano received additional hits to their reputation.
Mastriano actually turned out to be the worst governor candidate in the nation based on how much he underperformed a generic Republican like Pat Toomey or hell how much he underperformed Trump.
Election integrity remains a serious problem in the rust belt states. The fucking Dems actually won every single governorship in the rust belt.
My head is still spinning from what happened today.
I'm glad they overturned Roe but man did that hit us in this election. I also feel like we got played by McConnell, he starting saying that he wants to ban abortion at a federal level, this was a gift for the left. Why in the world would he do that?
there doesn't exist a stronger argument against democracy, and the destructive nature of participating in it at all
This, by the beard of Saint Nicholas and the hair of Saint Gianna. The left passed Obamacare, got it upheld by Roberts, and got progressively massacred (downballot at least) from 2010 to 2016 but stayed the course. Gay marriage was so unpopular that even fucking California voted against it back in the day, then the left used the courts to impose it there and eventually across the nation. The right gets what so many of them have supposedly wanted for 50 years from SCOTUS for a change, and then bitches because it might've impacted a single election cycle? Give me a break.
Roe v. Wade stood on such shaky (or outright nonexistent) constitutional ground that it should've been struck down for that alone, as even the uber-leftist Ginsburg once agreed. If not this year, then when - next year or 2024, when it could've been used by the left to attack the Republicans in a presidential election year? Gotta bite the bullet at some point, and the lives of the unborn matter more than a midterm election.
The lives of the unborn matter more than the lives of everyone right now who is living?
We are on the cusp of a permanent Dem one party state and we will still have retards like you thinking that pushing hardline abortion bans even in swing states is worth damning everyone who is currently alive to Democrat federal rule.
If the Democrats get a large enough federal margin they will codify Roe; pack the Supreme Court and make abortion allowable till the moment of birth in every fucking state.
Some of you pro life activist types are missing the bigger picture.
I am pro-life and think abortion is sick but I am not retarded enough to think letting Dems have a one party state is worth sticking with the hardline abortion ban position.
Even when the Democrats lost down ballot the Republicans didn't do anything to punish Dems because Dems have all of the major institutions.
The Democrats will not treat us the same, they will make our lives hell.
Nah, I've been hearing this 'we need to put off anything resembling an actual move on the abortion issue because muh electoral politics' line ever since I became politically aware, and older pro-lifers have been hearing it since the 70s. That nonsense can fuck right off, and anyone who buys into it (like you) is the real retard playing into an increasingly blatantly rigged game. If you have to throw away your principles and become a soulless uniparty hack forever trying to string your constituents along, then your '''''victory''''' is a hollow one at best.
If the Democrats get a big enough margin they'll finally dispel the fiction of a functioning democracy once and for all? Fucking fantastic I say, the sooner it becomes obvious to the masses that electoralism is as rigged and unwinnable a game as optics, the better. And I hope they get the chance right alongside the depression they're working so frantically to bring about as well, to maximize the chance of blowback and total system failure.
Nothing short of the discrediting and collapse of all current institutions and the poisonous belief system undergirding them is going to open the door to fixing civilization in our lifetimes. At this point, still trying to uphold the same system and play by its rules is complete fucking idiocy.
I'm not mad at you, but I do disagree. Roe was garbage and had to go, though I am pro-choice. The problem is that some of the Republicans ran roughshod with all sorts of crazy bans.
Even from their own POV, it would be much better to not alarm people when Roe is overturned, and to start very slowly.
I think for M it may have added an aura of extremism, when in reality Shapiro was the real extremist.
For me, it's tomorrow. Yes, it is disappointing, but don't lose heart. It may have silver lining yet. This may be a warning show for Republicans to not push things too far on abortion, and to Trump to not kid around with the candidates that he backs. Imagine if this lesson had only come in 2024.
Overturning Roe is the type of policy change that pro-lifers want their votes to accomplish. Don't forget that the goal of winning elections isn't just to win them but to implements changes. Pro-lifers got what they wanted, even if it costs them future elections.
And anyone who supports rule of law.
If I were pro-life, and didn't care about the rule of law, I'd have supported the Roberts approach: just chip away at it and boil the frog. That way you avoid a backlash.
Okay faggot. Go vote dem then. Might as well support them in everything if you're willing to support the continued genocided of unborn children
I am sick of these retarded purity tests.
I am pro life and I think abortion is sick.
The disgusting reality is that we will have a Democrat one party state in America if we keep pushing full abortion bans even in all of the swing states.
A 15 week abortion ban with exceptions for life of the mother, rape and incest is likely the best the pro-life movement can achieve at the moment.
If the Dems get a large enough federal majority they can still codify Roe and nationalize abortion to be unlimited without restrictions until moment of birth.
That is what is going to happen if you keep pushing these bans in swing states.
Agreed. Hopefully they do manage to squeak over the line in the house but given the history of midterms and the economic state we're in this was way messier than it had any right being. A big part of it is the constant brainwashing of people by the media, but it's fairly indisputable now that Trump is just cancer at this point.
I voted for Trump twice. No more.
He will be 78 in 2024. He is vehemently hated by too many people. It is just what it is.
We need DeSantis for 2024. He won Florida by nearly 20 points.
The GOP has no one silver bullet for what fuckery happened tonight.
They need to understand that whores in America love abortion, they need better messaging in general and they need to not run Trump in 2024.
I am more blackpilled today than in 2020.
Again who gives a fuck if some retards want abortion? All your asking for is complete capitulation to the democrats
Not what I am saying at all.
A 15 week abortion ban with exemptions for incest and rape is sadly what our depraved populace wants.
I am pro life. I despise abortion yet I am also pro not living under a permanent Democrat one party state.
A hardline position on abortion is killing us in all of the fucking swing states.
You know, the only person of note I heard calling for a nationwide abortion ban this election cycle was Mitch McConnell, who pretty obviously has an interest & preference in remaining in opposition over potentially having to deal with a slate of America-First senators and has actively sabotaged them (ex. Masters, Bolduc) with more than just words where he could. Even the most hardline bans still include exemptions for the life of the mother, and from a realpolitik POV, they also only happened in states that were already staunchly conservative like OK.
A 15-week abortion ban even just on the state level, with exemptions, was IMPOSSIBLE as long as Roe v. Wade remained in force. The whole point of that case was that it unilaterally legalized abortion across all states, without a single vote outside of the nine Justices who decreed that it be so. It was impossible to do anything beyond curtailing the most extreme practices which only the demonically possessed could tolerate in the first place, such as partial-birth abortion, so long as that ruling stood.
If every republican in aocs district voted she would have lost her seat by 50k votes
1/6 had nothing to do with it.
Roe v Wade was the big issue. It's all Dems campaigned on and without it they would have had fuck all besides muh democracy.
Trumpism rose as a populist, nativist movement. What set it apart was opposition to immigration and a desire to bring back manufacturing jobs that were outsourced with the rise of neoliberalism. It has betrayed its roots so it is starting to struggle.
No he won't. He'll immediately be replaced. Or he'll just say "yea" or "nay" at the correct times. He'll never be in front of a camera again.
Women fucked everyone over, as I said they would. Polling was highly inaccurate, R+12 women's vote? Not even in fucking deep red Alabama would that happen.
I thought we'd outvote them, that we'd actually have a chance at stopping their hell world, but no, nothing drives the enemy more than people threatening their ability to murder.
Gotta murder babies, it's the only thing they're fucking good at. Actually, that's a lie. They're also really good at manipulating people for their own benefit.
Running women against women to pander to women had no effect and gave shit candidates like Tudor Dixon. Trying to push MAGA candidates in PA was a mistake, Mastriano was destroyed.
How did pandering to the TERFs do for you, President Trump?
This better be the last time we hear him utter a single positive word about the people holding the world hostage.
No poll showed that, as even without a gender gap that would make for R+12 overall, but you're such a dumbass that you'll believe literally anything.
You said Sarah Everhard deserved to be murdered.
Jeez, I wonder why he dislikes Dixon. Must be a Richard III fan.
Any other candidate in PA come to mind, specifically one that you supported against Kathy Barnette whom you falsely smeared as a 'feminist'?
Yup, that was it.
Get your head fixed before you commit some sort of atrocity.
I don't follow anyone around. I just reply to dumb stuff, and she often takes the cake.
OK handshake.
Why do you think everyone was predicting a huge red wave?
She didn't exist, but anyone who is as stupid as she allegedly was, would give Fetterwoman a run for her money in the Retard Olympics.
Can you accept that the push for female candidates failed horribly?
Oz got a lot closer than Mastriano did. I blame the Barnette Fan Club for not voting for him.
It certainly didn't help. Women were no more inclined to vote GOP after it.
I'm telling the truth. We're all being slaughtered by inflation and they care more about murdering babies than anything else. They are truly worse than even I thought.
That is INDEPENDENT women, you moron, not women as a whole.
Impressive to simultaneously victim blame and justify murder.
I assume with the usual amount of evidence?
Literally just refuted it.
LOL
Women as a whole supposedly shifted 13 points, independents shifted by over 30. They didn't even shift by 1. The polls were pure garbage, a blind man could see that wasn't going to happen.
You should see women when a man gets murdered. "She didn't do it...but if she did, he probably was abusive."
Just based off people on Patriots.
CNN is hopeless.
It's true. Nobody can seriously say otherwise.
A shift is not R+13. R+13 means that women favor GOP over Democrats by 13 points.
More proof that you are a woman?
You're sick in the head.
I just mixed up my numbers. It was still expected that they would turn out R, and of course, they didn't. You said they were D+7 last time, so +13 is R+6. That did not happen and wasn't even close to happening.
For telling the truth? They dragged us all to hell because we wouldn't let them kill babies.
No way. The guy who said 90% would die from the vaccine mixed up numbers?
I think you need to look at the actual poll, because I'm pretty sure it didn't say R+6 either. Furthermore, you always accuse polls of overestimating Democrats.
45% voted Republican, and you're still screaming into the void like the straitjacketed lunatic that you are. If 100% voted Republican, you'd claim that they to end inflation to preserve their buying power or something. You are insane. Sick in the head.