California democrat with a proactive approach to homelessness is a pretty good foundation for a political future. Let him cook. He might become something.
The Bad:
No red wave, this will embolden the imbecile.
The good:
DeSantis. Though I’m not sure how good an opponent Crist was, his victory certainly shows the attempt to paint him as a Trump like meanie didn’t pan out.
Trump is diminished. I don’t think this will be enough to finally make him fade away, but it’s a damn good start.
No more Luria. Not a fan of Kiggans, but glad to see Luria gone.
I am surprised that some of the cable news networks have not learned their lesson. in 2012 Fox News kept repeating how a ham sandwich could beat Obama. In 2014 MSNBC told their viewers that Obama was going to have the most successful mid-term election in history. In 2016 MSNBC kept saying how Clinton was a shoe in. In 2018 Fox News told their viewers that Trump was going to have the most successful mid-term election in history. In 2020 a whole bunch of Fox News viewers were shocked when the network called Arizona for Biden. And this year Fox News had a whole bunch of folks on air who said that the “red wave” was going to really be a “red tsunami”.
I have been interested in the changes of voter demographics for quite a few years. And one interesting statistic that we can’t get is how many voters stay home because they are convinced by watching their preferred news network that the election is going to go a certain way.
I have also wondered how many voters actually study polls. I think that number is fewer then many folks think.
The average voter does not study polls, in fact the average voter does not really have politics in their mind until election time.
As political junkies we are the outliers. Look at all the topics we discuss here down to the tiniest detail. I guarantee the majority of people do not dissect the issues in the way we do.
Yes. I am always surprised every cycle by the number of voters who are interviewed who say that they made up their mind on how they would vote at the last minute.
In my younger days I traveled quite a bit. And I learned early that the two topics you don’t talk about at a bar are politics and religion. Both are losing propositions.
There was one time where I had to discuss both. I was sitting in a bar in Cork Ireland in the 1970’s. Two men sat down on either side of me. And one turned to me and asked, “So, are you Catholic or Protestant”? And back in those days that was the most loaded question you could get. So not wanting to get the crap beat out of me, I answered: “Neither, I’m Jewish”. They left. I lied, but I still had my skin.
And strangely, agreement is split, by hairs, by some “political junkies.” that hate MAGA and Trump supporters and think “Trump is the Problem,” because he is too abrasive and difficult for corruptors to manipulate, and he’s not part of the Uni-Party cult of “Political junkies,” and their “wink wink” cults.
I’m starting to think that inflation was too difficult a concept for Republicans to effectively weaponize for that reason.
Assaults on welfare are easy to understand–point to an other and tell the voter that something was taken from them and given to the welfare recipient.
Assaulting inflation requires the extra step of convincing the voter that the stimulus checks happily used themselves are a bad thing. That somehow this useful money raised the price of bread or a plastic dohickey on Amazon.