This is not a post that I wanted to gloss over originally, but I see no other option for it than to do it today this way. I actually did want to do this in the end. The main change that you will see is that instead of doing a paragraph before most links is that I’m just putting links in at the end. All of the impeachment related links are about Trump’s first impeachment. Some of them may not relate to who all is up this time around, but were about senators that I feel was worth covering at some point in time. Some were just predictions that turned out to be wrong.
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two was up this time around and Democrats did well. They had a net gain of
three seats in the end, flipping four while losing just one. Both of Georgia’s
seats went from red to blue, as did the seats in Arizona and Colorado. Alabama’s
rental that Doug Jones had went back to the Republicans to a man who voted to
overturn election results.
However,
the Democrats didn’t do as well as they could have. The seat in Maine was lost
by the Democrats to fake moderate Susan Collins. The seat in North Carolina
could have easily been flipped and given Democrats 51 senate seats, but the
Democratic candidate couldn’t keep it in his pants. There were other issues
like not having a Democrat in the Arkansas race, not having people know that Al
Gross, the independent in the Alaska race, was Act Blue supported, and having
two candidates in the Nebraska race, there were stumbles in races that could
have been more important in the end than what we got. Plus, I’ll never
understand why the Democrats never did ads on the government shutdown. They had
a silver bullet, but never fired the gun.
The
special elections were ultimately what helped tip the race to the Democrats. If
the seat in Arizona had not been up for election this cycle, it would remain in
Republican hands. The same is true with one of the Georgia races. Speaking of
Georgia, for once, we can thank a third party candidate for a Democratic
election win. Thanks due to the laws of Georgia and the fact that there was a
third party candidate denying David Perdue an outright majority, the fact that he
got the most votes didn’t matter as a run-off caused him to lose his seat
permanently instead of just temporarily. That’s good because I’m sick of losing
to Perdue.
The
seats will next be up in 2026. They were last up in 2014 when Republicans
gained seats. When they were up in 2008, Democrats gained seats instead. This cycle
also continues the pattern of Democrats gaining senate seats during a
presidential election year, something that last did not happen in 2004 or in
1996 when a Democrat last won the presidency.
There’s
not much to say about the links at hand. I feel that I might be harder on Ben
Sasse than I should be and he might not be as bad as I believe that he is. Still,
there are two links that I am sharing about him that are negative. It is worth
noting that Ben did vote to impeach Trump the second time around so he might
not be too bad.
Here
are the rest of the links that I’m sharing from this cycle. I know that not all
of these went the way that they could have. But some were more hopeful with
wishful thinking of how they felt things would go versus how they actually
went. I should note that only the polls in Maine and North Carolina were wrong
as the rest had at least one saying that a Republican would win and that is
what happened in the end.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/2/1949771/-Sen-Collins-Trump-did-learn-his-lesson
There’s
not much else to say and I am ending this post around here. I wish that I could
promise that I’d always have posts ready for my blogs. I am powering through
this one despite feeling and being kind of sick. I shouldn’t do that ever. But if
I can write it, then I will. I can only hope that nothing takes me out of
writing all of my blogs with me never to return outside of a farewell post that
will happen after a long enough gap. But it might be good to stop blogging.
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