2022 midterm election results *** OFFICIAL THREAD ***

[nobody's_hero]

This right here...


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/why_the_red_tsunami_seems_to_have_hit_only_florida.html

One of the GA GOP candidates for Secretary of State (who unfortunately didn't get through the primary) mentioned Florida's robust verification measures. They handled drop boxes a lot better as well. You had to scan your driver's license when you deposited ballots, so if someone intent on ballot-harvesting came through with 20 ballots, it could be traced back to their DL.

But that's just what I heard in a meet and greet with the candidate, maybe someone from Florida could confirm. Either way it sounds like a good system. (though IMO not as good as getting rid of drop boxes completely)

 

[Voluntarist]

Put a fork in Trump

"Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all."

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Have I mentioned lately how sick I am of this guy?

 

[donnay]

Rep. Massie: Even a slim House GOP majority is 'the difference between night and day'

'It's not like the Senate. If you're in the minority in the House, they can completely ignore you,' Rep. Massie said.

By Nicholas Ballasy


Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie said early Wednesday morning that even a razor-thin Republican majority in the House would be "the difference between night and day."

Control of the House has yet to be determined.

Massie was asked if he's concerned about the GOP having a slim majority.

"I've been in the majority for six years, and then I was in the minority for four years,” he told Just the News. “It's the difference between night and day in the House of Representatives.

“It’s not like the Senate. If you're in the minority in the House, they can completely ignore you."

He also said during the interview at House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's "Take Back the House" election night event: “And for me being on the Judiciary Committee, it's the difference between Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Chairman Jim Jordan. If we get to 218 (seats), 218 makes Jim Jordan a chairman, as much as 240 makes Jim Jordan the chairman,”

Massie said that a slim GOP majority would lead to more oversight of the Biden administration.

"We schedule the hearings. We determine the witnesses. We write the rules for the floor. We write the rules for the committees. it's the difference between night and day," he said.

“We control the appropriations process. You have the power of the purse. We decide what gets funded and what does not get funded. I can't overstate the difference between being in the minority and the majority in the House of Representatives, whether it's one seat or 30."

Massie was asked if he agreed with other Republicans who have suggested using the Holman rule to strip salaries of federal employees who are not implementing certain laws that Congress has passed.

"I think we should use the power of the purse, or they'll be dilatory, and they'll just stall for two years in document production. I don't think you necessarily have to target an individual member. If you cut (Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro) Mayorkas' budget by 1%, he would be in front of our Judiciary Committee in 30 minutes," he said.

https://justthenews.com/politics-po...m=feed&utm_campaign=external-news-aggregators

 

[vita3]

Trump is poison.

 

[donnay]

Trump is poison.

Communism is poison.

 

[acptulsa]

Trump is poison.

Communism is poison.

Both communism and fascism are poison. That's why they limit our choices to the two and try to get us fighting over which is worse. Historically, they haven't much cared which poison we take.

These days, however, that seems to be changing. I haven't really figured out why yet. Certainly speeding up the pendulum swing got the mRNA into more arms, as some took it while it was Trump's Warp Speed Miracle, and others took it only after it somehow became Biden's doing. But there seems to be more to it than that.

They're actively undermining confidence in the system. At the same time, Trump's position as the face of the opposition isn't organic, it's manufactured. Ron Paul achieved that position organically. Trump was thrust into his place by a media barrage beginning in 2015.

All I know for sure is, they seem to want a civil war. And if Biden and Trump are the "two sides" of that civil war, then liberty isn't the goal of it. The best liberty can do is stay under cover until there's a winner, then kill that survivor.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1590365011909652480

 

[69360]

So the takeaway for the GOP is TV doctors from another state and washed up football players with a hidden past may not be the best candidates. Also don't split the vote in a ranked choice state like Alaska. One of them should have checked their ego and dropped out.

 

[donnay]

So how are the poor dead people supposed to vote without mail in ballots?

It's not like they can show up in person to vote.

Here's an interesting twist:

Pennsylvania voters reelect Dem lawmaker who died of cancer last month
https://www.theblaze.com/news/tony-deluca-wins-reelection-2022

 

[Dr.3D]

Here's an interesting twist:

Pennsylvania voters reelect Dem lawmaker who died of cancer last month
https://www.theblaze.com/news/tony-deluca-wins-reelection-2022

Dead democratic voter equity.

They always vote for their own. They need representation too.

 

[CCTelander]

So am I and yes it is.

Not sure what more to say past that, pretty much at a loss for words.

I know a couple things however,

1 - The Bolshevik left will now triple down on their rhetoric, aided by the Marxist Media organs. Radio Rwanda for real. They truly are working up momentum to kill us. Yes, now is the time to start looking for the exits.

2 - The NH state house, senate and EC races fleshed out better than they were looking last night. The EC remains the same 4 GOP to 1 Dem. The NH senate is the same at 15-9 (maybe 14 - 10) and the House should remain close to the same though it's hard to tell right now. So there's that schizophrenia again.

3 - Freedom remains unpopular.

WE could change this.

WE have the power.

WE have sufficient numbers.

And yet ... crickets.

Apparently we don’t want to be free.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1590332397962366978

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The goal of this mid-term was to make sure Trump-endorsed candidates lost. TPTB need Trump to lose, bigly.

I don't discount that possibility...

Don't discount the possibility that neoconservatives pushed the abortion issue purely as a vindictive plan to make Trump look bad, by making Trump supported candidates lose.

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1590376558577225728

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Red wave...LOL...red mud puddle maybe.

If the GOP can't win in a nationwide landslide blowout given these conditions, there's really no point in this nonsense anymore.
...

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1590374782708912134

 

[Brian4Liberty]

So let me get this straight - the Republicans nominated a gun-grabbing supporter of child-mutilation who managed to lose to the incoherent stroke victim nominated by the Democrats - but it's the Libertarians who need to get their act together?

LOL OK

Republicans ran a guy with a Turkish passport who lived in NJ.

Here's an interesting twist:

Pennsylvania voters reelect Dem lawmaker who died of cancer last month
https://www.theblaze.com/news/tony-deluca-wins-reelection-2022

Fetterman winning should be a blackpill for all Libertarians. No matter how much Bastiat, Mises and Rothbard you try to get someone to read, they will still vote for a braindead vegetable.

Republicans can take solace in a few key areas.

On the other hand, Pennsylvania's main choices were a Hollywood liberal TV doctor or a braindead vegetable. Yet, how did the Libertarian on the ballot do?

IMHO, that race could have been a ham sandwich vs. a turkey sandwich, and the Democrat sandwich would have won. That is exactly where this nation is at.

 

[asurfaholic]

Happy to see Ted Budd beat Beasley in NC senate race. Checking all night and into the morning Beasley was so far ahead and it made no sense at all, but seems like my initial thought following how much support I saw for him was real. NC seems to be leaning more and more red lately.

My county flipped blue to red, some good people got elected.

 

[acptulsa]

IMHO, that race could have been a ham sandwich vs. a turkey sandwich, and the Democrat sandwich would have won. That is exactly where this nation is at.

There's a vegetable in the White House, being followed around by a guy with the "nuclear football". What difference does a senator or two make? They've made it so completely about teams that the individual office holders are as interchangeable as Muppets.

They have the populace making fools of ourselves. No doubt they're getting a good laugh out of it.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Red wave...LOL...red mud puddle maybe.
...
2 - Bitter, dried up, post menopausal women, many of them lesbians ("Boston Marriages") which are legion around here, turned out in droves to vote against all things GOP in the wake of Roe. I reckon they were even more numerous than people like myself as far as skewing the polls were concerned. Why this issue grinds their gears so much is beyond me, especially considering they have about as much chance of needing an abortion as they do flying to the moon.
...

They didn't have to be lesbians. I talked to several woman whose only issue in this vote was abortion, even some that aren't Democrats.

 

[dannno]

It looks like this might be the best possible outcome. Republicans narrowly get the House. DeSantis and Florida Republicans get much deserved wins for how he handled Covid. And Trumpism gets a hard rebuke. The fever needs to break.

What happens when DeSantis turns out to be a neocon?