Posted on 11/11/2022 7:46:00 AM PST by Starman417
So there's no misunderstanding, I realize that there is a lot of bad with what happened on Tuesday. I could probably add a few thousand words on top of the excellent piece that Dr. John offered, and I was among the many who stayed up late on Tuesday looking forward to a tsunami of MS-13NBC tears. Obviously, I was disappointed like the rest of us Normals, but a piece by Ace, The Other Side Gets the Ball Too, put things in perspective for me. (emphasis mine)
We got a little self-deluded about abortion having all but vanished as a factor in the race. It didn't.The emphasized part is what changed my thinking. What's the point in legislative victories if they don't lead to significant policy changes? Granted, the overturn of Roe v. Wade came from the Judiciary, but do you think that outcome had a snowball's chance in Hell if Hillary's coronation had been completed? One of my many frustrations about the Trump presidency was how with control of The White House and Congress how little was done in terms of substantial change. Yes, those tax cuts were nice until they got wiped away with the stroke of a pen after the Dems stole a few elections to "fortify" their power back in 2020. McCain's torpedoing of the Obamacare repeal had me cursing at my vote for him in 2008 and the small contributions I sent his campaign back in 2000. But I digress...Abortion was a costly victory. That doesn't mean you don't take the victory; only a GOPe Grifter would say that you perpetually run on an issue and never actually try to win that issue on a policy level.
But winning the issue of abortion, finally, did provoke a powerful backlash from the 40% of the country that considers abortion to be an unholy sacrament.
Just as Obamacare was a costly victory that, from the Democrats' perspective, they absolutely needed to seize and accept the fallout as unavoidable consequences, so too does the GOP have to take the win on abortion, but with the unavoidable consequence of a riled-up leftwing progressive base.
And on that, even though abortion faded as an issue as we got close to election day, millions and millions of votes were cast weeks and even a month before election day. I checked the Pennsylvania mail-in voting rules; the website didn't give a firm date, but it said early voting usually takes place "4-6 weeks" before election day.
So people were casting votes for Fetterneck in the last week of September. When the July-August passions over Dobbs were still hot.
So yes, when you get a game changer pushed through there will be a backlash from those who were happy with the previous game. Do you think that the Dems would trade the electoral bloodbath that surrounded it for the passage of Obamacare? Wasn't that supposed to wipe them out for a generation up and down the ticket until... (checks calendar) 2018? So this time we had the unique circumstance of an invalid in the White House whose handlers aren't even trying to hide the fact that they want to destroy America, and on the opposition side a major victory just prior to the election. And even if the red wave wound up as a red trickle, The Radical Left would happily trade results with what we Normals achieved.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
nailed it.
I always thought Senate was 50/50 at best. Too many seats to defend, and pickup opportunities were few.
Michigan will be what it’s always been, a battleground.“
Not anymore. Prop 2 took it off the board. It is the state equivalent of HR1 and the ballot stuffers passed it when they put Whitmer over the top.
Michiganders must like not being able to purchase necessities during a mostly shamdemic?
[...we will vote on a a bill to ban abortions across the country.”
Yes, Lindsey Graham out running his mouth on this weeks before the election.
I’m not against his comments, I’m against the timing of his comments. Not helpful.
Dems hang onto their blue wall in the Northeast and West Coast. The Dems election machine is pretty strong in these areas. I know they’re trying to turn it on in places like Texas, Georgia and North Carolina. They are very systematic with it. I voted for the first time in North Carolina and found out they don’t require Voter ID. I’m from CT and they even require an ID. This is just how the Democrats get a foothold in an area by relaxing the voting requirements.
“ The “Red Tsunami” talk was a setup, to blame Trump if it didn’t happen.”
And also to portray themselves as winners. Raise expectations sky high. Then anything less equals…you lost and Trump is to blame. They win even by losing.
Control of the media matters.
Red TSUNAMI comes in January when America First MAGA republicans are sworn in with the majority, committee leadership, and purse strings to stop funding the Beast.
Yep, and honestly at first I wasn't too impressed with Walker. I have to say, he's starting to grow on me.
Please....Trump picked a senate candidate in PA that was so bad he lost to a brain damaged zombie who couldn’t form a complete sentence. The GA Senate candidate went -60K while the Republican for Governor won in a walk. If Trump were competent at politics we wouldn’t be having this conversation as the Senate would be in the bag.
The Arizona Senate seat is still in play, though trending toward Dem.
It will be very close.
Abortion is the murder of a baby in the womb. Who cares if the whole world is for abortion? Almighty God who created that child is forever against abortion.
Reconsider...you are being a pawn to the democrat plan...
Reconsider...we have more victories than you think with more coming. You are falling for the democrat propaganda machine...
Not sure what happened, other than some shadyness in Detroit. There is NO ONE left in Detroit. Waiting for those
“votes” is a sham for those outside the state to see.
Hard to believe the direction Oakland county went.
Georgia shows how a politician backed by RINOs and Trump has a huge advantage over a candidate backed only by Trump and MAGA.
“If we don’t take the Senate, it’s a loss.”
Only for you and other shortsighted foolish people...
The bottom line is . . . RED WON!
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