Politics: 2020 Michigan Senate Race Results

Well, there isn’t much for me to write about and I have to get something written for today. I need to give myself more time to write blogs, but with a full time job and various other things to do, I should just give up all of my blogs. I don’t that I ever will barring something unusual. I just hope that I don’t burn through too many of these easier posts.

Anyways, in 2020, the incumbent Michigan senator who was up for reelection that year was the Democrat Gary Peters. He was worried about losing in emails, but so is everyone, you’d think. I plan to do a YouTube video on annoying campaign emails. I’m at least 1,000 behind with new emails on that account right now with posts going back all the way to February.

The challenger was the Republican John James. There isn’t much else to say about him. Some thought that there was no way that the Democrats could win control of the senate without this seat and it turns out that they were right. With all of the focus on being getting Republican’ts out of office, one would have to make sure that certain incumbents could stay in office. This would mean worse things if we lost more than just Doug Jones. 

Thankfully, we didn’t have much to worry about and Gary Peters won a hard fought reelection that was pretty close in the end. John sadly lied and claim that cheating cost him the win, but like the allegation of the lost soap, it is baseless. Gary won reelection and we are lucky that he gets to continue on as senator.

Politics: 2020 West Virginia Governor Race Results

Well, there was only one governor race in 2020 that I did a special post on that I haven’t done the results of just yet. I still plan to do a post on the elections for governor then in their entirety. I had talked about the West Virginia governor race back in 2020.

It was interesting since a former Democrat, Jim Justice, was now a Republican, making the switch early into his term. If elected as a Republican, he would make history by getting elected as a Republican governor of this state. Despite the fact that West Virginia is considered a red state, they normally don’t have Republican governors. People like me and various others would want to support the Democrat in the race, Ben Salango. Still, Jim handily won both the primary and the election.

While I didn’t want to admit it, part of the reason that I might target a lot of governors come 2022 would be over their handling of the coronavirus, and while a donation against them seem like a failing grade, the truth is, Jim has handled coronavirus quite while. Things have been much better in his state than a lot of others. Either he has done something right or he hasn’t horribly screwed things up there. Regardless of what happened, I just know that he did well there and actually did better than other Republican governors who also did win reelection in 2022.

It might not have been the election results that I would have wanted, but we seem to be fine for now with Jim still in charge of West Virginia. Perhaps he can be a voice of reason within his party that is sadly often absent from where it belongs.

Politics: 2020 US House of Representatives Results

Well, I will be doing some posts on the results of the House election results from last year that will talk more about their role in the storming of the capitol, but for now, I will focus loosely on just the results from the election in question and also talk some more about other parts of this world with a grand post for later that will hopefully come at some point. Let’s go with the results at first, their disappointing meaning, and how this country is worse. Yet despite this, we could have had things wind up even more badly than this.

Ultimately, while 3 seats flipped from Republican to Democratic, the one Libertarian seat went back to a Republican where it used to be, and there was a net gain of 14 seats for Republicans. Thankfully, it was not enough for them to reclaim majority, but it was enough to prevent a blue wave, despite what you might have heard elsewhere about it.

What’s bad is that some of the people who just won reelection wanted to support the frivolous post election lawsuit of Texas versus Pennsylvania. The fact that the lawsuit had zero chance of succeeding means nothing as it will show you the lengths that Republicans will go to in order to prevent people from winning. Plus, they can’t change the rules of an election only after it had happened in the end.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/13/2001694/-The-126-Reps-Who-Did-the-71-Who-Didn-t-and-the-Pascrell-Letter-Observations-and-a-Urge-for-Action?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

I’ll have to talk more about the sedition caucus as they have been come to be known by some of us in another post. But many people did want Trump to win in many ways that just weren’t as good or even legal as they could be.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/27/2001412/-A-breakdown-of-all-126-seditious-Republicans-who-signed-on-for-a-coup-d-tat?detail=emaildkre

 

Now the next link is only red because it was in a word pad document for a while. If clicking on this link does not work for you, then try copying and pasting it instead. You should know that a whole lot of the reasons why it is sad that the push to get rid of universal health care is still here during a pandemic and this is why we should never believe that they care about health care.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/27/1981136/-Watch-as-congresswoman-takes-Republican-s-empty-healthcare-promises-to-pieces?detail=emaildkre

 

Of course, then we don’t know of how much things will change now that one of the longest and most influential Congressmen is out of office with people trying to claim that they care about the late John Lewis, but not going about this the right way.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/20/1962131/-Republicans-claim-to-want-to-honor-the-late-Rep-John-Lewis-There-s-a-way-but-it-s-not-empty-words?detail=emaildkre

 

It is good that after the insurrection of the storming of the capitol, that enough Republicans stuck to their guns and didn’t vote to overturn the election results, but everyone that did should have known better. Some only did this due to worrying about what would happen if they didn’t.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/10/2008001/-Republican-Some-in-Congress-voted-to-overturn-election-due-to-fears-for-safety-of-their-families?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=most-shared

 

Plus, it seemed like one of them wanted to get people killed or just didn’t think that they were doing much danger by what they felt was just repeating what the news had said. But there is a reason that people want to get rid of a few of the new members and it isn’t cancel culture. It is the fact that they could be breaking the law.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/10/2008012/-Congress-member-declared-Today-is-1776-tweeted-re-Pelosi-s-location-during-insurrection?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

During a pandemic, one should just care for others by doing something as simple as wearing a mask on their face. But Republicans don’t care that they are getting infected at a high rate. They still want to spread the virus to others. Now, for the first time ever, I know of Democrats who got covid19. And it was entirely Republicans fault.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-infected-with-covid-following-siege-furious-at-maskless-republicans/ar-BB1cHGws?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

 

The results of the House races last year were disappointing, but not nearly as bad as it could have been. If we didn’t have a trifecta, then we wouldn’t have coronavirus relief now. I can only hope that things go better after redistricting, but I have no idea what could happen there just yet at the moment.

Politics: The Importance of California versus Texas and Attorney Generals

While I’ve talked about this some, I might as well get to a full-fledged post on this, even if it will not go into much detail. Also, enjoy this graphic courtesy of Wikipedia that explains more about the case at hand.

I have no idea why this case has become dead air considering how at least one case heard after it already has a known result. Will we not know the results until July? Is that really a good idea? But that doesn’t matter too much. What does matter is explaining the colors.

Now most of them apply to attorney generals, but when I was looking through them and noticed that one did not add up. You see, Kentucky had the color of orange, making it part of the California side of the case in favor of Obamacare. But their attorney general is a Republican. I thought that it could be a previous, Democratic attorney general still on the case, but it turns out that it is the governor of the state that did the case instead.

The orange ones that I’m considering good are Xavier Becerra of California, Phil Weiser of Colorado, William Tong of Connecticut, Kathy Jennings of Delaware, Clare E Connors of Hawaii, Kwame Raoul of Illinois, Thomas John Miller of Iowa, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, Dana Nessel of Michigan, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Aaron D Ford of Nevada, Gurbir Grewal of New Jersey, Letitia James of New York, Josh Stein of North Carolina, Ellen Rosenblum of Oregon, Peter Neronha of Rhode Island, T J Donovan of Vermont, Mark Herring of Virginia, and Bob Ferguson of Washington state. Note that Clare E Connors is officially nonpartisan and not a Democrat like the rest of them.

The green ones that I’m considering bad are Steve Marshall of Alabama, Mark Brnovich of Arizona, Leslie Rutledge of Arkansas, Ashley B Moody of Florida, Chris Carr of Georgia, Curtis Hill of Indiana, Derek Schmidt of Kansas, Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Lynn Fitch of Mississippi, Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Doug Peterson of Nebraska, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, Alan Wilson of South Carolina, Jason Ravnsborg of South Dakota, Herbert H Slatery, Ken Paxton of Texas, Sean D Reyes of Utah, and Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia. Curtis Hill of Indiana has since left office, having lost the primary due to a scandal, but never having to face the voters as party insiders chose the candidates instead of the voters in at least that race.

There are a few other things to note. It is possible that Xavier Becerra will be leaving his job to become part of the Biden administration if he is confirmed to his post. Not all of the attorney generals are picked by the voters and would not have elections as a result. Also, I’m also going to include here Tim Fox of Montana, who even as a lame duck had to support the horrible idea of the lawsuit of Texas versus Pennsylvania, and the attorney general of Oklahoma, Michael Hunter, who did the same thing, but will still be around. 

With not much else to say, I will end the post here. This is important to me and you should know that any of them that were either orange or green outside of Curtis Hill will still be around as they all won reelection in their states unless, as stated earlier, Becerra leaves office. I plan to keep track of them in the future some here and there. I just wish that I knew a result in the case by now at some point in time.

Politics: 2020 Iowa Senate Race Results

 

There might have been some hope for Democrats going into the race, but it was ultimately all for naught as the Republican candidate won reelection. Joni Ernst will continue being senator from this state. This is a person who can’t even name the price of soybeans in her state.

 

Of course, it doesn’t help that she believes in conspiracy theories or has other issues with how she runs herself in office. Why would one believe that healthcare workers are trying to make sure that coronavirus is still around or infecting others? It doesn’t make sense.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/2/1974453/-Joni-Ernst-goes-QAnon-suggests-Iowa-healthcare-workers-are-bilking-the-system-with-COVID-19

 

There’s not much else to say. I just wish that there was more hope for Theresa and others in the Democratic party when they ran for office in the senate. But I plan to get more into that in a new blog post in the future covering all of the senate races not already covered. Let’s hope that I have the time to write these posts. And that’s provided that I don’t abandon these blogs at some point in the near future for various reasons like work commitments.

Politics: 2020 Polling Results

 

A lot has already been said about the polling from the 2020 elections. The common theme is that the polling was wrong. But was it? Polling said that Biden would win the election, which he did. He won with a huge gap in the popular vote between him and Trump. While I won’t mention every single poll, I’ll split this into three main categories: the gubernatorial elections, the senate elections, and the presidential election. I will ignore every other one. Polling comes from a lot of sources and not just one, but may only include October and early November polls.

 

The Gubernatorial polls were all right. All of the governors running for reelection won their races regardless of which party they were. That’s exactly what the polls said would happen. And the races without incumbents in them went the ways the polls suggested.

 

In the polls on the senate races, there were a lot of consistent toss-ups with at least one source saying that one side only would win with most of them and only one having the polls disagree. The polls about Maine and North Carolina were wrong. The rest were right with Georgia’s special election toss-ups by some consistently and the regular one split both ways (unless I got both of them switched by mistake). North Carolina was probably wrong due to a scandal that was revealed about the Democratic candidate late in the election cycle.

 

Now regarding the presidential poll, one can’t just do the election as a whole as you have to go state by state. The information that I was looking for seemed to change where it was at. But the gist of it is that Florida and North Carolina were both wrong while everything else was right.

 

Perhaps the biggest issue to keep track of are the sites of 578 and 270 to win. They seemed to be the ones that are most predicting a blue wave that never happened as the Democrats lost seats in the House (although not enough to lost their majority). 270 to win mentioned some of the polls that made things look better for Biden then they turned out to be (the end result still being good in the end for Biden). 578 might have been the one that most talked about the House races that weren’t even mentioned in this blog post.

 

In conclusion, I don’t believe that the polls were as wrong as people thought as most of them said exactly what was going to happen. It may have gone too far into how strong some of the candidates’ support was, but it was much better than some would have you believe.

Politics: 2020 Missouri Governor Race Results

 

When it came to the Missouri race for governor that happened last year, it was the incumbent, Republican Mike Parsons, against Democratic challenger Nicole Galloway. Mike ascended to the office of governor after his predecessor resigned after scandals in June of 2018. He has made some legally questionable moves that the Missouri Supreme Court decided to go along with for some reason, such as appointing a new number two, which goes against the Missouri Constitution. Plus, he didn’t seem to care as much about the coronavirus, even after getting it himself. Why is there not a mask mandate in Missouri?

 

That’s why I think that Nicole’s loss represents a lost opportunity for Democrats. There is a lot that could have been covered in the ads that wasn’t. Nicole was painted as untrustworthy. But most people knew that the ads attacking her were not true. But she never ran ads saying this that I ever saw. You need to counter lies that aren’t true. And you need to do this in ads on TV so people will see it and know what is going on. Nowadays, it doesn’t matter if it is true or not. If someone paints you or people close to you as untrustworthy, you will lose.

 

Because Mike doesn’t care that much about the pandemic, his is now one of many states that I have an avoidance preference of Missouri. This basically means not going to this state when I can avoid it. And I won’t be posting pictures of it on facebook typically for a while.

 

Another annoying thing about the ads is a dumb thing that keeps working over and over again. It seems that for any Republican to win in Missouri, all they have to do is accuse their opponent of being too liberal. It’s dumb and yet it keeps working over and over again. They don’t actually have a legit reason for not liking said candidate. They are just accused of being too liberal and that’s all that they need to do to win.

 

While Mike could run for reelection again in 2024, we don’t yet know if that will happen or not. He said once that he wouldn’t run for this or any other office again after this election so we’ll see if he holds up his deal or not. He may have won reelection, but that doesn’t mean he’s the better candidate. He certainly doesn’t do a good job for his state. But the majority of those that voted for him in that state just didn’t see it.