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).
@Danny_dan92 Why do all you pro-lifers not understand basic information about abortion. There's a due date to abortions, no professional doctor is going to perform an abortion on an 8 month pregnant woman, that is extremely dangerous and the woman could die. Abortions later that 2-3 months are done strictly when a woman's life is at risk or if the baby has serious fetal abnormalities. Learn your facts before you start typing. It's already extremely difficult to find an abortion clinic that will allow abortions after 2-3 months.
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.
@goaded, Clearly not. Still don’t know what the Oath Keepers who brawl in the streets with Antifa have to do with voting in the mid-terms for the GoP and it’s message of personal responsibility.
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.
It canceled the federal right of women to have control of their bodies. But I guess we’ll see if Repubs come out with a federal anti-abortion bill. Then your argument would change…
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.
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.
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.
following your logic what goes up must come down then would also be the dems fault, because history has shown that you can't have one without the other, so the dems are then responsible for the high oil prices do to their policies, as well as the current inflation and probable recession. Yep lived through many of those and while they are quick to take credit for anything good that happens, you can hear their backup alarms going off miles away when the result of their policies makes things go down the toilet. And for the record I am neither a dem or a republican, so please don't include me in your blanket statements, because I am not one of the you guys. You do know that Biden claimed that gas was $5.00 a gallon when he took office, and now they have brought the price down bringing peace and harmony to the world. Except for some stupid strange reason, they keep forgetting that it is so easy to fact check things like that. But what the heck, it was worth a shot. Like I stated before, no party has clean hands, and no party is solely responsible for just the good things and no party is solely responsible for just the bad. They both get equal credit and equal blame.
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.
@OddBeMe Democrats are not very good at identifying conspiracy theories. They are obsessed with communicating them and using them to justify their totalitarian behavior. Democrats for example see racism as the cause of everything they disagrees with them on every issue. That is very much a conspiracy theory, one that requires very complex and usually contradictory explication.
For example Democrats to this day Insist Donald Trump is a racist, yet this only begin when he decided to run for President as a Republican. Before that he spent his life courting the minority interests, and even during his presidency his policies produced the most favorable conditions said minorities they had ever seen.
Yet still democrats insist via contradictory and highly complex conspiracy theories Trump was somehow a racist out to get them.
Clearly the left's main skill is delusion which naturally includes wild Conspiracy theories.
Yeah Dems don’t need to talk about non politicians. We have our hands full with the GOP. It when Trump became a politician, gloves were off. And more of his policies produced favorable anything, besides doubling the deficit.
@OddBeMe Trump first started flirting with running for President in 1987, He actually did run in 1999 under the Reform Party (Polling at 7% of the vote). His basic policy platform however didn't change much as even in 1989 his basic policy platform was "America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves".
Trump's has been a member many different parties including the reform party in 1999, the Democratic party in 2001, and finally the Republican party in 2009.
You've had quite a long time and political history to "discover" Trump's misterous racism. Which frankly still eludes me. Regardless Trump Got Results turning things around and setting records for the first time in decades.
That billionaire thinks he's above the law, fired essential employees, and has had executives tasked with following the law quit because he's made their job impossible.
@goaded He wants twitter to be a free speech platform, there are NO laws abridging freedom of speech in this country to follow.
In regard to every other law he can't make people work for him, I actually know people who work for Musk and he is a difficult and demanding employer. I am not surprised that he fired most of twitters employees and intends to run the platform on a far smaller fraction of employees while getting rid of all together the most taxing features like speech controls.
As I understand it he wants to turn twitter into his X platform and integrate it with everything.
There are laws against incitement to violence and consequences for defamation. Ask Alex Jones.
What do you mean "he can't make people work for him"? They quit because he made it impossible to do their job, which was to ensure the company stays within the law. He also fired people responsible for cyber security. Oh, and it is against the law to fire large numbers of employees without sufficient notice (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), both in California and federally).
@goaded There are a great many unconstitutional laws in this country. I do not dispute the inclination of people to ignore the law, nor is it reasonable to account for the infinite numbers of ways in which this can and is being done.
I simply maintain that legitimately Alex Jones doesn't own anyone in Connecticut a Dime. For not only are the State laws in question of no force outside of the state where the alleged speech took place but their enforcement across state lines is a violation of the 1st amendment.
OK, if they're unconstitutional and you have standing, challenge them. That's the way the system works. You don't just get to ignore them. You also don't get to suddenly decide that decades or centuries of precedent don't exist any more because of your interpretation of the constitution. Unless, apparently, you're the Federalist Society.
@goaded Alex Jones should indeed refuse to pay and force the State of Connecticut to demand his extradition from anther state who should likewise refuse on the ground that Connecticut legislator has no right to impose its laws on the people of any other state.
@goaded I don't know much about Alex Jones or his situation. I just know he lives in Texas Not Connecticut, and with a little research it seems a far left Texas Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in a Travis county district soo 1 sided, no republican even ran against her is the one betraying the people of Texas in her district in facilitating the out of state suite against him.
As well as claiming he didn't follow her orders which she told him was the reason for his 'conviction'. So it sounds like he got railroaded by democrats and really don't have much choice.
As a matter of principle I'm Not sure why you would want to be subject to laws of other states in which you had no hand in making. How would you feel if we deported you to Iran for saying something they thought defaming?
"I don't know much about Alex Jones or his situation." Then why don't you find out? He's been convicted (in jury trials) in Texas as well as in Connecticut.
@goaded I just did, that's why I know the Jury and Judge came from one of Texas's most far left districts. Suggesting they didn't at all care about the law.
Forgive me if you were only paying attention to politics for 6 years but cities have been far leftist strong holds going back a century. Long before Donald Trump was ever politically active or even born.
I am sorry to disappoint your world view but the world did not begin with Donald Trump nor will it end with him. You make it very difficult to believe you are not insane when you never stop trying to associate everything with Donald Trump. Serous let that whale go Captain Ahab
@OddBeMe Cities are very much human controlled artificial environments, this creates great power for anyone to deal with usually corrupting the people who wield it directly or indirectly. If that wasn't bad enough cities also put too many people too close together. Many animals naturally react poorly to high population densities, as the famous mouse experiment demonstrate. Although I don't yet have information to be sure it seems rather likely that this response is evolved attribute of animals designed to help avoid localized resource depletion.
In mice this led to many of the same behaviors we see in humans progressively more anti-social behavior, lower birth rates ultimately resulting in population collapsible.
In the human world this generally means cities must constantly replace their population with new imports from elsewhere.
@OddBeMe It almost doesn't matter what you mean by 'diversity' as in each case If diversity were the issue then homogeneous cities would not have the same issues, and politician tendencies.
We have hundreds of years of evidence across many different continents, with a large majority of decided non-diverse cities to demonstrate diversity is NOT the issue.
iIs a bit unrelated to the issues of cities (Population dentistry) specifically, but diversity if the minority (whatever it is) becomes large enough to be politically significant can actually contribute to making said governments even less efficient. This is typically done by way of defining factions that are less and less concerned with the behavior of their own leaders out of fear of their rival's leaders. (hence why such factions were condemned evil of democracy from day one).
Of course Politicians and their fractions frequently try to latch on the unchangeable issue such as race and argue for equally unchangeable support on that account, as it gives them a even more free ride even on the issues that unit them. You don't have to worry about how your polices effect car manufactures if your base of support is united against your only viable enemy by the color of their skin not their employment conditions.
1) you’re prob looking at those who live in big cities. The diversity comes from those who work in the cities…quite diverse. 2) I would love to stop mentioning Trump, but he’s currently your parties frontrunner, don’t pretend he’s disappeared.
It 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.
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They think the Supreme Court case made abortion illegal, which it didn't
You’re so silly when you make false equivalences. Pssst. A lot of Americans thought we should stay out of WWII. Probably especially the japanese sent to internment camps by a democrat president.
It's criminal and treasonous to send billions to another country when a lot of Americans don't even have access to clean drinking water or affordable healthcare.
@Subarugirl i don't personally think he's the lesser evil. He's the one orchestrating the war in Ukraine. Trump didn't start any wars. But i guess Biden is the more patriotic one cause fucking up other countries is best for the USA i guess... To me personally, USA is a pariah state not any better than Russia or china.
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.
They've been indoctrinating since the end of the Reagan administration, sure you get the occasional Rittenhouse but they will just start killing them soon enough
However, as good as the DEMs did, they'll likely lose the House and possibly the Senate.
How the DEMS and GOP did depends on where you are looking at. The New York Times had a very good article about it: TITLE: Why Some States Went in Different Directions in Midterms SUBTITLE: Abortion rights and antidemocratic stances were more relevant or pressing in some places than others. www.nytimes.com/.../...ion-abortion-democracy.html
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By Nate Cohn Nov. 11, 2022, 3:00 a. m. ET
The results of this year’s midterm elections won’t be final for weeks, but there’s more than enough data to say this: They were very different from usual.
Historically, the president’s party is almost always trounced in the midterms. But for the first time in the era of modern polling, the party of a president with an approval rating below 50 percent seems to have fared well. Democrats are favored to retain control of the Senate; they could still hold the House.
Consider that Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush’s parties all lost in landslides when their approval ratings were mired in the low-to-mid 40s (or sometimes worse), as President Biden’s are today.
The results by state only add to the uncommon picture. In our era of increasingly nationalized elections, trends in one part of the country tend to play out in others as well. Instead, this year we saw a split: Republicans fared exceptionally well in some states, including Florida and New York. In others, like Michigan or Pennsylvania, Democrats excelled.
How can we make sense of it? The results seem unusual because of two unusual issues: democracy and abortion.
Unlike in the typical midterm election, these issues were driven by the actions of the party out of power. Indeed, the party out of power achieved the most important policy success of the last two years: the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It’s nothing like the typical midterm, which might be dominated by a backlash over a first-term president’s effort to reform the health system, as with Obamacare in 2010 or Mr. Clinton’s health care initiative in 1994.
These issues were unusual in another respect: Their importance diverged by state or by candidate. Abortion rights might not be seen as under immediate threat in many blue states. The possibility that a Republican governor might overturn a Democratic presidential victory in New York might not seem especially realistic, either.
But the two matters were directly relevant in other states, whether through referendums on abortion rights or candidates on the ballot who had taken antidemocratic stances in the very places where Mr. Trump tried to overturn the last presidential election. In those places, Democrats tended to defy political gravity. In states where democracy and abortion were less directly at issue, the typical midterm dynamics often took hold and Republicans excelled.
A comparison between New York and Pennsylvania is illustrative. The states share a border — if you drive across the state line, things look about the same. Yet their election results look as if they’re from different universes.
Democrats excelled in Pennsylvania. They ran as well as Mr. Biden did in 2020 or even better. They swept every competitive House seat. John Fetterman won the race for U. S. Senate by a wider margin than Mr. Biden had won the state. Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee for governor, won in a landslide.
On the other side of the line, in New York, Republicans won big. Their candidates for Congress fared far better than Mr. Trump had in 2020 — sometimes by as much as 20 points. Republicans won all but one of the state’s seven competitive congressional districts. The governor’s race in a normally blue state was fairly close, though the Democratic incumbent, Kathy Hochul, held off her Republican challenger, Lee Zeldin.
Before the election, it was hard to imagine that these two outcomes could occur on the same night.
The most obvious differences appeared to be the abortion and democracy issues that were at stake, state by state. In Pennsylvania, Republicans nominated a candidate for governor, Doug Mastriano, who was central to efforts to overturn the states’s 2020 presidential election results. Democrats feared that a Mastriano victory could risk a constitutional crisis and a threat to democratic government. It might have threatened another long-held right as well; Mr. Mastriano is a strident opponent of abortion, and Republicans controlled the state Legislature.
The two issues were less critical in New York. There was no danger that the Democratic Legislature would overturn abortion rights. No movement emerged in 2020 to overturn Mr. Biden’s victory in New York, and there is little indication that anyone feared Mr. Zeldin might do so. As a result, Republicans focused the campaign on crime. And it paid off.
New York and Pennsylvania were part of a pattern that played out across the country.
There are exceptions, of course — like Democratic strength in Colorado or Republican durability in Texas. But most of each party’s most impressive showings fit well.
There’s the Republican landslide in Florida, where the stop-the-steal movement never sought to overturn an election result and where Gov. Ron DeSantis refused to go further than a 15-week abortion ban. There are the Democratic successes in Kansas and Michigan, where abortion referendums were on the ballot at different points this year, and where Democrats swept the most competitive House districts.
The pattern also helps explain some outliers in particular states. In Ohio, Representative Marcy Kaptur trounced her Republican opponent, J. R. Majewski, who had rallied at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and misrepresented his military service. She won by 13 points in a district that Mr. Trump won in 2020. Almost every other Republican in House races in Ohio performed better than Mr. Trump had.
The unusually uneven results nationwide also go some way toward explaining why analysts missed the signs that a “red wave” wouldn’t materialize.
The national polls, which showed Republicans ahead in the race for Congress, actually turned out to be fairly accurate. Republicans lead the House popular vote by a substantial margin, and they seem likely to win the most votes when all of the ballots are counted.
Against that backdrop, many of the poll results showing surprising Democratic strength seemed like outlying results, especially given the nationalization of American politics and how often the polls have erred in recent years. In reality, Republican strength nationwide just wasn’t translating in specific races where democracy and abortion were at stake. This dynamic was suggested by the final Times/Siena Senate polls, which showed voters preferred Republican control of the Senate but still backed individual Democratic candidates.
There’s no way to know what might have happened in this election if the Supreme Court hadn’t overturned abortion rights or if Mr. Trump had quickly conceded the last election. But one example that might offer a clue is Virginia. It held its governor’s and state legislative elections last year. As a result, the unusual state-by-state dynamics were absent; Virginia acted something like a control group in a nationwide experiment.
Republicans there tended to fare well Tuesday. They outperformed Mr. Trump in every House race, with Democrats winning the statewide House vote by only two percentage points — eight points worse than Mr. Biden’s 10-point victory in the state in 2020. If abortion and democracy hadn’t been major issues elsewhere, perhaps Virginia’s seemingly typical show of out-of-party strength would have been the result nationwide. But not this year.
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