Politics: 2022 General Senate Races

I gave myself too little time to write this post as usual so I won’t be able to include all of what I’m wanting to in it. Know that class three is up this time. When it comes to the patterns with who flips with this class, it was normally the Republicans who gained seats in this class until 2016 when Democrats had a net gain of it.

 

Meanwhile, regarding the patterns with who flips with midterms, it is normally always the Democrats who lose seats during the midterms. Since the 2002 midterms, only once have the Democrats gained seats during the midterms (in 2006). This is bad, especially since two of these midterms took place under Republican presidents where the minority party, that is the Democrats, are posed to do better. 1998 was the most recent midterms under a Democratic presidency where the Democrats didn’t do that bad as they lost the same number of seats that they gained. Meanwhile, the last time that the Democrats gained seats in the senate midterms under a Democratic president was all the way back in 1962.

 

Still, I’m going to spotlight just a few of the candidates running for office in the senate elections this year before I get to some of the polling when I last checked a long while ago. While I don’t like Lisa Murkowski or respect her anymore after her vote on Barrett, there still are a few good aspects on her at times.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/8/2024986/-Lisa-Murkowski-s-Letter-to-Constituents?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

Perhaps the worst of the senators up for reelection this year is one Wisconsin senator named Ron Johnson. He has a weaker chance to win than most of the incumbents who are actually running for reelection. He still might win though, which is sad. Note that he is not part of this sedition caucus as it is known. Still, he deserves to be outsed more than any other Republican in this class that I can think of right now.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/28/2037488/-Senator-Ron-Johnson-is-panicked-that-Americans-want-a-better-nation?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/12/2020774/-Sen-Johnson-tells-host-he-wasn-t-afraid-of-Capitol-building-mob-They-respect-law-enforcement?detail=emaildkre

 

Another Republican senator that has had issues with me is Mike Lee of Utah. He isn’t that smart of a person and I guess that he’s just flat out rude at times. There isn’t much else that I can say about him right now.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980860/-Utah-s-Senator-Mike-Lee-insults-intelligence-of-his-constituents

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/20/2093043/-Sen-Mike-Lee-is-betraying-his-country-still-hiding-what-he-knows-about-a-violent-coup

 

When it comes to the election for senate in Missouri, it is their state’s terrible attorney general who won the Republican’t primary. He doesn’t understand this legal concept as he is saying that he sued China over covid or wants to control the US border with Mexico, neither of which he has any authority over.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_non_conveniens

 

One of the most important things to remember about Republicans is how often they lie. They will vote against something that is popular with voters and the general public. They will then claim that they support that thing. Let’s keep calling them out on this.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/15/2021157/-Watch-out-for-Republicans-trying-to-claim-credit-for-American-Rescue-Plan-s-state-and-local-aid?detail=emaildkre

 

With 5 of the incumbent Republican senators retiring from office (including a 6^th from a different class who will leave on the same date), you’d hope that the potential replacements on that side of politics would be good or at least better as in not so bad. But that’s not the case at all. Still, they might not be doing as well as they could have.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/19/2111327/-OH-Sen-LOL-J-D-Vance-s-R-Campaign-Is-So-Broke-He-s-Now-Begging-Donors-To-Pay-Off-His-Debts?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

While we won’t know until the election just how good or bad Democrats might do, it would seem that they aren’t going to do well, but that might not be the case. It is possible that only one seat is in play throughout the whole country with all of the others likely to stay within their own party regardless of the retirements. Last I checked, not one poll seems to show a flip from either party as likely to happen right now. We’ll see what happens. I can only hope that for once, the liberals can do better in the elections than polling suggests.