November 2022 Elections?

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November 2022 Elections?

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Why do the news commentators predict that Americans will vote the scoundrels back into office in 2022? Is this based on supreme confidence that American voters will act as dolts and put their confidence in known liars and villains? Has the entire thinking process of America been undermined by Fox News?
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Because PROGRESSIVES are ruining the country and everyone knows it.
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Moksha wrote:
Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:05 pm
Why do the news commentators predict that Americans will vote the scoundrels back into office in 2022? Is this based on supreme confidence that American voters will act as dolts and put their confidence in known liars and villains? Has the entire thinking process of America been undermined by Fox News?
Here ya go [personal attack deleted]! https://youtu.be/OdJOLMgY4p0
Let a liberal explain why the republicans will be voted back in in November. Pregnant man emoji, funny!
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Atlanticmike wrote:
Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:40 pm
Moksha wrote:
Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:05 pm
Why do the news commentators predict that Americans will vote the scoundrels back into office in 2022? Is this based on supreme confidence that American voters will act as dolts and put their confidence in known liars and villains? Has the entire thinking process of America been undermined by Fox News?
Here ya go dumbass! https://youtu.be/OdJOLMgY4p0
Let a liberal explain why the republicans will be voted back in in November. Pregnant man emoji, funny!
This is a good link. I agree with Bill completely. I would not vote for a Republican but I will say that there are progressive extremist who are full of moldy poop.
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Mid term elections traditional lean against the party in Power. It is why the Democrats took the House after Trump got elected. It is why the Republicans took control of Congress under Clinton and the reason the Republicans took Congress after Obama's election.
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If Republicans are so sure of their election outcomes it is more to do with the fact that Republican legislatures all over the country are enacting voter suppression laws. They don't want people voting. They want to rig the game, and their efforts lately in light of Trump's Big Lie is making their intentions obvious. Take for example these that hit close to home:

Georgia county purges Democrats from election board and cancels Sunday voting
The judges met, in private, over a two-day period in May, for what might seem like a minor task: to choose the fifth member of an elections board in rural Spalding county, Georgia.

But the meetings were by no means routine. There is no record of their vote or their discussions. The interviews with Democratic and Republican applicants were conducted in private, via Zoom calls. And the position was only vacant because of a new law, specific only to Spalding county, recently introduced by the area’s two Republican state lawmakers.

In the end, the judges chose a Republican, someone who had never served in a government position related to elections, to be the fifth and deciding vote for the Spalding county board of elections and registration. Almost immediately, that Republican, James Newland, cast that deciding vote to cancel Sunday voting – a historically heavy turnout day for Black, largely Democratic voters.

Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards
In five of the Georgia counties that restructured election boards - Troup, Morgan, Pickens, Stephens and Lincoln - the legislature shifted the power to appoint some or all election board members to local county commissions, all of which are currently controlled by Republicans. Previously, the appointments had been split evenly between the local Democratic and Republican parties, sometimes with other local entities controlling some appointments. The intent of the old system: To ensure a politically balanced or nonpartisan board.

In the sixth county, Spalding, the parties still choose two members each, but the fifth member is now chosen by local judges. (It used to be decided by a coin flip.) Those judges tend to be politically conservative; they appointed a white Republican to replace a Black Democrat on the election board, giving Republicans a 3-2 majority.
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1. Democrats have a razor-thin margin in the House of Representatives: only four seats. The Senate map in 2022 favors Democrats somewhat, and there's a chance their margin in the Senate could increase, but in this hyperpartisan era, a party needs to hold both houses of Congress in order to get anything done there.

2. Midterm elections generally go against the party in the White House, because those who oppose that party are more motivated to resist it than those who support it are to increase its margin. Satisfied people stay home. The only recent exceptions are 1998 and 2002, both driven by unusual events (one by the Lewinsky-scandal impeachment and the other by the rally-round-the-flag effect in the wake of September 11) and both in a less polarized atmosphere than we have today.

3. The resistance to COVID precautions has caught Biden in a double bind. People want to "get back to normal", and many are liable to blame the incumbent president if they can't, but living like it's 2019, or anything even close to it, is impossible as long as COVID is still circulating at current levels. The biggest reason it keeps circulating like this is the large population who refuse precautions, most egregiously those who refuse vaccination. Biden doesn't have the authority to force them to get vaccinated and wear masks, and when he uses the powers he does have, such as mandating that all employees of federal contractors get vaccinated, the resisters scream bloody murder. Therefore, he gets blamed no matter what he does.

4. Presidents receive credit or blame for the economy far out of proportion to the degree of control they actually have. The economy is actually experiencing an employment boom, but media coverage emphasizes the inflation more.

5. Gerrymandering can be carried out with unprecedented scientific precision these days, and Republicans have weaponized it to a greater degree than Democrats. Of the seven states that have nonpartisan redistricting commissions, four are blue (including the whale that is California), two are swing, and only one is red. So Republicans have a built-in advantage in the House.
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Moksha wrote:
Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:05 pm
Why do the news commentators predict that Americans will vote the scoundrels back into office in 2022? Is this based on supreme confidence that American voters will act as dolts and put their confidence in known liars and villains? Has the entire thinking process of America been undermined by Fox News?
Maybe you need a new variant of COVID to help clear the way to enact into law cheat by mail voting. It helped Joe Biden get 10 million more votes than Barack Obama. Perhaps that same strategy can save your social security and stimulus checks you've been enjoying. On second thought even if you can't enact voter fraud into law, I somehow doubt you or any of your constituents are in any real danger of having to put in an honest days work in the near or distant future. Relax, there's way more of you than there are of those evil working taxpayers.
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Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:15 pm

Maybe you need a new variant of COVID to help clear the way to enact into law cheat by mail voting. It helped Joe Biden get 10 million more votes than Barack Obama. Perhaps that same strategy can save your social security and stimulus checks you've been enjoying. On second thought even if you can't enact voter fraud into law, I somehow doubt you or any of your constituents are in any real danger of having to put in an honest days work in the near or distant future. Relax, there's way more of you than there are of those evil working taxpayers.
Unfortunately for you, the only people who get caught cheating are the Republicans, time and time again. Not only from voter fraud, but also look at the seven fake electors submitted by Republicans. If that's not cheating then what TF is?
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ajax18 wrote:
Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:15 pm
Maybe you need a new variant of COVID to help clear the way to enact into law cheat by mail voting.
The great State of Utah has moved exclusively to mail-in balloting. They find it works well.

There was massive fraud after the election, but it came from an insane former President and his amoral supporters.
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