US Midterms 2022 - Read OP before posting

So far the midterms are a complete mess but everyone knew that.

Surprised to learn Herschel isn’t from GA. I knew Oz was not from Pa but I didn’t realize the GOP was astroturfing several people for the Senate this year.

Also weird to see rightwing commentators complain about politics from the altar when they do it themselves so fluently.

Five Thirty Eight basically concedes they have no **** clue who will win the senate anymore

Democrats had previously been expected to gain seats and hold on to the majority there, while the house was always likely to be lost to Republicans in what is sort of a tradition for the Congress on being that 'referendum on POTUS' halfway through a term.

I think a lot of the polling is confusing anyway - there was one poll that suggested 70% of Americans think the country is out of control. The GOP research accounts took this to mean that everyone things Joe Biden is asleep at the wheel, it could also reflect sentiment about the election denialism and the campaigns to install deniers into critical election roles IMHO (for which there is no 'control' over - voters angry enough and entrenched enough could vote in a Kari Lake sure, to only certify ballots for their guys)

I don't envision Warnock losing to Walker in GA - Walkers a bit of a liar, a yes-man, and way to obsessed with honorary police badges.

Oz I could see maybe winning to Fetterman but its close - Fetterman's stroke has concerned swing voters, Oz being an astroturfing ass who thinks PA isn't a landlocked state (hard to claim you're in touch with pennsylvanians when you can't find it on a map) which could be doom for him but don't underestimate the celebrity-tv effect.

Such is US politics and the drive the both-sides dichotomize the **** out of everything that everything always comes down to the bare skin of half a percentage point even in cases you'd expect there to be a lot more gap.

And of course: Republicans are already laying the foundation to claim the midterm elections are going to be rigged (unless, of course, they win)

The term length for the lower house is two years so they're voting for all those seats plus some of the upper house seats which are up every six years.

"Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin, after I'm elected governor."

The cryptic words of a candidate go viral for all the wrong reasons.

OG:

Two years always struck me as being a little short and keeps the representatives in a constant election cycle. They could also do with term limits in both houses and the USSC. But in Ireland neither our senate nor presidency have any teeth and the senate isn't democratically elected. so the US system isn't all bad IMO.

Oh man they've been hyping up this special for days.

He shows up first at a Doug Mastriano campaign in Harristown, PA. Mastriano is running for governor. He was at January 6. Crowdgoers complained about the size of the crowd being small and supressed by the media (even though Klepper found the rally) - I posit it was the woman pacing the steps with the fetus poster that shied the vast majority of people from walking across the street to listen to the rally. The conspiracy theories from the crowd are also wild as ever. He also has an interview with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R).

He shows up at a rally for Tudor Dixon in Michigan and finds several people who don't have any regard for Dixon one way or another - they're just there because of her Trump endorsement.

"Can you name a Michigan candidate?"

"No, but I can name Trump."

A lot of them still seem completely ass backwards about election integrity and what happened in 2020.

One lad in Mesa, AZ (Kari Lake rally) reckons James Woods is actually playing the role of Joe Biden and the real Joe Biden died in Vietnam. There were also numerous people at her rally who attested they were Poll Watchers during the 2020 election in AZ - they didn't see any fraud in the election, hm.

He even sits down with a group of.... Oathkeepers. @17:30. They seem to believe in Santa-Clausing the elections: ie. 100% in person voting, all counted in 1 night, no machines. Big believers in 2000 mules here. They defend their armed poll-watching operation because they're armed and waiting in their vehicles, see, totally not intimidation.

It’s a bicameral legislature if one chamber disagrees with the other nothing will be passed.

With a bit of luck the nazi-wait I mean "repblican" party will be washed out once and for all.

Can only be for the comedy that will come as the conspiracists get elected.

With Bolsanaro, LePen, BoJo, Truss, Trump all having lost theres not many laughing stocks left.

So the only reason people would vote Republican is because they are stupid...and you aren't!!!