Abortion rights is the biggest reason. Most of the bills republicans voted against are access to contraception, capping insulin costs, marriage equality, voting rights, healthcare for veterans, mental health services in schools, baby formula shortage are some of the few. These are issues a lot of Gen Z's and Millennials care for and the Democrats voted for these issues. Republicans didn't seem to care and instead were concerned with things like removing the right of Interracial marriages (Example... Clarence Thomas).
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That was the busiest polling night I have seen at midterms. Holy heck. I was proud of people. No matter who they voted for. Now they are all free to bitch, in my book.
Abortion rights, although it's probably less about that one specific issue, and more about people realizing that it's just the tip of the iceberg, with a Republican party that has become more aggressive in pushing their entire right-wing, Christian-extremist agenda, and a SCOTUS that has veered hard to the right, and can no longer be relied upon to stop them.
Abortion. Both generations were born under abortions being legal and right which was stripped from them earlier this year so its still fresh in their minds.
People don't like seeing rights stripped from them as they tend to interpret that as regressive and scares them of what other rights they might lose in the future.
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Likely cause they don't understand state rights, as the SCOTUS decision didn't outlaw abortion, if followed the constitution.
They don't understand the constitution and agree with courts making law and don't believe in state rights, because lets face it. States have had their rights neutered and taken away for decades, their entire life, all they've seen is a too powerful central government that is far larger than was ever intended.
As long as their party gets to control the central power, that is what they want.
If abortion is being outlawed in your state, fight to change it. It is a million times easier to change state or local laws than it is federal laws. At the very least move to somewhere else... people move all the time to places for better jobs, or cause they don't like the laws where they live.
Honestly I can't say I'm that suprised, while I'm sure election denial was probably a major factor I actually think abortion ended up being the biggest factor. Some statistics indicate that 1 in 4 women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, which means 25 percent of women 45 and older have had an abortion (regardless of reason). It also means that countless women younger than 45 have had an abortion and when you add that to all the other men and women who are prochoice, it comes out to a pretty large voting group. I have a feeling many of them showed up to vote.
Reproductive rights was probably the biggest reason. That and as opposition to far-right political extremism. Honestly, I don't think Biden or Democrats had anything to do with it at all. It's mostly just the Republicans shooting themselves in the foot over and over again.
The midterms just proved to me that all women are extremely selfish, misandristic and hypocritical when claiming to be for equality when they refuse to allow men reproductive rights and the unborn any rights either. My resentment for them has only grown stronger. I can no longer look at a woman and genuinely smile.
They didn't any more than usual.
The abortion issue changed from a Federal to a State issue. This is bound to change the vote during mid term elections.
The timing of the Supreme Court decision is highly suspect. Democrats really had nothing to run on and would have lost significantly if Abortion had remained a Federal decision.
I hope it was because republicans were offering no solutions to anything they complained about but instead were openly stating they wanted to create a permanent one party state of Christian nationalism. I guess there is no way of knowing.
Their only source of information Social Media is owned and run by democrats who's business model is to control and manipulate information via selective censorship.
if you were to request how your election card was tallied how would you know it wasn't tampered with? i don't trust elections at all. i truly believe the deep state red/blue decides who they want. elections are a farce to fool the sheep
free stuff, that way they can do what they want and not have to work.
All while those that are working get to work even harder now that inflation has hit.Abortion. Hands down.
That’s the democrats #1 topic to garnish votes at this pointIt looks like they haven't had enough of Bidenflation and gender ideology yet. I hope this is a wake-up call towards anyone who is against that type of thing.
Because no-one wants to be the subject of a dementia-riddled OAP with his finger on the button..,
Simples...
They think the Supreme Court case made abortion illegal, which it didn't
Abortion decision, most likely. I didn’t vote dem, but I did vote to keep it protected by the california state constitution.
It was either abortion or Trump, but I said Trump because he's the reason that abortion rights got overturned.
You mean the ones who are hoping for more student loan forgiveness?
i'm surprised anyone still votes for the guy after he demonstrated that he suffers from senile dementia time and time again.
Because of brain washing and Democrats lying to them, But Democrats lost. Lost control of House and Senate. That is a Republican win. They were lucky. Lucky that it wasn't a worse defeat.
Dobbs and wanting forgiveness for student loans.
The GOP is still set in the trajectory to win the Senate, and the House.
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