[joesbucks]

You folks get hung up on semantics. I made have used an improper word, but making that win red was important for conservatives. And it was a giant swing and miss. But the important key is the winner of that race did so by a 10 point margin. No major poll had her by 10 points. And the most recent was 5 or less. On March 11 they were tied in a poll. Why from tie to 10?

Clearly Musk didn’t bring home the bacon. Maybe his act is getting old. Maybe it’s by design.

[Just mythoughts]

I made have used an improper word, but making that win red was important for conservatives.

Seriously Joey ... Biden has left the stage ... go back to the DU where nobody cares how dumb you literally are!!!!!

[cgbg]

“Clearly Musk didn’t bring home the bacon. Maybe his act is getting old. Maybe it’s by design.”

Your political instincts are insanely wrong.

It would take a book to walk through all the errors you made in that one short post.

omg.

[Political Junkie Too]

No. Wisconsin wasn't important; it was hyped to rally the Democrat base, which is demoralized right now. The two Florida special elections were important.

Democrats thought they had a chance to pick up those seats, but they were solidly Republican even in a special election with low turnout.

There is a civil war going on inside the Democrat party right now. The moderates are calling for introspection to understand why they lost; the left is calling for resistence. The moderates are looking for new ideas; the left is looking for new messages and messengers.

Did you see the clips of Bernie Sanders walking off of the interview set when he was asked about AOC and whether he thought she would be a good Senate colleague? Even though Sanders and AOC have been appearing together and the question was not unusual, Sanders knew it was a trick question. After Chuck Schumer supported the CR to fund the government until September, his left flank was outraged and called for him to be primaried -- floating AOC as his future opponent. Asking Sanders if he thought AOC would make a good "colleague" was really asking him if he thought Schumre should step aside.

In the lead-up to Tuesday's election, Hakeem Jeffries is saying that voters are rejecting the "rapidly deteriorating Republican brand," while Schumer was trying to get back on the good graces of his left by vowing to fight President Trump's tariffs "tooth and nail" and calling his policies an "absurd, crazy, chaotic trade war."

The fact that Jeffries and Schumer are becoming more shrill in their comments in the face of Republicans holding seats yesterday shows that Democrats are still ignoring what happened in November and have unrealistic expectation about 2026.

Why from tie to 10?

It's not about Musk. Consider that Susan Crawford won the Supreme Court race by 55-45, yet the Voter ID ballot initiative won by 61-39. In raw votes, there were 2.3 million votes cast in the SC race (1.26 million for Crawford vs. 1.04 million for Schimel.

However, in the Voter ID initiative, 1.12 million voted in favor of Voter ID and only 720,000 voted against it. That means that about as many people who voted for Crawford also voted for Voter ID (although not the same people, obviously). I'll have to take a closer look at the county numbers later, but it is curious that people voted for a liberal Supreme Court judge AND for picture voter IDs for elections in such a blue state.

Maybe THAT was the Musk effect?

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

You folks get hung up on semantics. I made have used an improper word

I don't think you used an improper word. I'm not sure which word you think was improper.

I'm just saying that I would appreciate a little more meat to your posts if we're going to have an adult, reasoned debate.

Your generally one-line posts read, to me, like taunts. I'd prefer something a little bit more expositive.

-PJ