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.
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.