Before I get to doing an update on the injustice senators after my YouTube video about it is now up, I figure that I might as well get to doing a post on the results of the 2022 senate elections. They were historically good for Democrats while also not being anywhere close to as good as we would want it to be.
Let’s
get to the polling about it. If there was a clear winner in the poll consistent
with all of the polls, then the polls were 100% accurate about who would win.
The Georgia runoff proved to be the most consequential as it caused the
Democrats to ultimately gain a seat in the senate. This is the first time since
2006 that the Democrats gained senate seats during the midterms, first time
since 1998 that the end result was ultimately a net gain of zero seats for any
party (as the DINO in Arizona not up for reelection officially became
independent yet will caucus with her “party” since she hates being a Democrat),
and the first time since all the way back in 1962 that the Democrats had a net
gain of senate seats under a Democratic president.
That
wasn’t all of the weirdness that happened with it. Every incumbent of either
party was reelected if they ran for reelection. Only one seat even flipped from
one party to another. It was kind of dumb that even with just six races lacking
incumbents in them, none of the races seemed to be open in any ways as almost
none of them were fights by either party to keep control of the seat since they
were just foregone conclusions.
This
leads to the Wisconsin race. This state baffles me the most as they keep
electing a liberal senator one cycle, but do the same thing for a conservative
one this cycle. Most people can see that Ron Johnson is a kook, but not the
voters of Wisconsin, apparently.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/22/2022243/-Cartoon-Sen-Ron-Johnson?detail=emaildkre
The
Georgia senate race was high profile long before its runoff for the
controversial Herschel Walker being a candidate in it. It also points clearly
to how Republicans cannot possibly be pro-life like they claim because they
think it is okay for one of their own to be responsible for abortions since, at
best, their response to his abortion scandals was crickets, and, at most, was
supporting such an event.
I’m
saddened that we still have to put up with Rand Paul even longer. And I know
for sure why he won: his opponent didn’t either promote himself or tell us what
was wrong with his opponent. That’s the topic of an already covered blog post:
It’s the Ads.
One
of the reasons that Republicans did poorly was due to their cult leader giving
them cyanide flavored cool-aid that they willingly drunk. Trump doesn’t help
his party. He does the exact opposite. But the longer it takes them to realize
that, the less likely they are to vote.
Mike
Lee isn’t a good senator, but he’s in a place that is still so red that it is
unlikely that anything other than his death or retirement will take him out of
office. What did he know about the coup against the capitol? We may never know.
Pennsylvania
had the most notable of all of the races and was the ultimate reason that the
Democrats won the senate for real without needing the vice-president to break
the tie. It was a Republican primary that was suddenly okay to do recounts of
without anyone trying to affect the count in court. Dr. Oz seemed like a quack.
He doesn’t even live in Pennsylvania. And attacking your opponent’s stroke only
ensures that you sink your party’s chances of winning that race.
Less
focused upon was Todd Young of Indiana. He’s from a state that doesn’t have
that many Democrats winning office. He tried to point out how high gas prices
are. But he didn’t bring a car to a gas station when he did this. Enjoy your privileged,
chauffeured life. I don’t make that much money as a chauffeur myself. But even
in a job where I get close to minimum wage in at least a state that has a
higher one, I don’t pay that much for gas. And I have nowhere near the amount
of money that Todd Young does.
Ultimately,
it is The Lincoln Project that called it best and was able to point out just
how insane their own party has become with candidates like the ones in Arizona
preaching that you can’t trust the election results and seriously wondering why
they can’t win elections then to follow the Trump playbook, simply suing over
the results they don’t like, without the advantage of having appointed the
judges hearing those cases, and forgetting that even they wouldn’t go along
with his lunacy so why would others?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5FfPy24N-w (The GOP’s Crazy Candidates)
I’m
not too happy with a lot of the Republicans that remain in office having won
reelection and at least two of the new senators this year are very worrisome in
the Republican Party. Of course, me worrying about the new Republicans in
office is worth a different blog post in a different blog. I do like how some
of the old fuddy duddies are no longer in office, having retired. But there can
be only so few geezers that won’t stay around each cycle. Still, this was a
better election season for Democrats than most of them and I can only hope that
things will get better later.
