Will it be a red wave or a blue vindication? Both tribes have done everything possible to lose, to demonstrate their inability to break free of their most radical influences that the vast majority of a nation despises, to offer candidates that people want to vote for rather than hate the least.
Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring. At least I don’t, no matter what I suspect. Is it the death of democracy as the president and the New York Times claim, or is it the pocketbook concerns that affect ordinary Americans in their daily lives?
Did the Republicans blow it with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, energizing pro-choice Americans to make their views known, or did the Democrats blow it with their cries for social justice and equity while people watched the price of milk climb out of reach and random people being murdered on the seven o’clock news as Democrats told them their concerns about crime were foolish?
If the Republicans win, will they believe it proves that America loves election denying nutjobs who desire to perform sex acts on Trump? If the Democrats don’t get destroyed, will it prove that America truly desires a society of victims who can’t survive without government gifts that they totally deserve?
Or will it be the lesser of two evils, which means whoever ends up prevailing is still evil and just not as hated as the other evil? But what it will not mean is that anyone beyond the flaming nutjobs of the radical fringe actually supports the candidates for public office, and the next two years will prove no better for a nation than the last six.
After the election, a million people will say they told you so, having made baseless guesses for their own purpose, some of which will prove correct as others prove absurd. This is your opportunity to see into the future and anticipate what the future will bring.
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Secure the salt, melt the butter…
I’ll take a stab. Given the “quality” of the Republican candidates for senate, if the Dems lose the Senate, it will be a stunning repudiation of their progressive tilt. They would rather have these obviously insane and/or incompetent candidates than endorse the Democrats dalliance with wokeness.
Not how I’d phrase it, but I completely agree.
“The Dems are infusing their money into the coffers of the most extreme, most outrageous and least qualified Republican candidates in the hope they will win their primaries and become the GOP candidate in the general election. By boosting the worst of the right, the left is scheming to win because its opposition is worse. Brilliant scheme or how we end up with a Congress of Darth Cheeto lovers?”
I’d say that this says more about how they view their own candidates and chances than anything about the republicans they’re running against.
The key word for this election will be Elongate. As in they will drag the drama out for days, proving again that America does not do things better than elsewhere, and the whiny arsonist elite will write op-eds and nonthink pieces blaming Elon and misinformation for their lack of coronation.
The real question will be if the republicans sweep, will they be able to deliver the goods soon enough to satisfy a fickle electorate. Easy to make promises, hard to deliver.
Here, the “real question” is whatever the fuck I say it is. You are always free to start your own blog where you get to decide the “real question.”
Do you get like this when you’re in court? It could be some laughs having you on the other side.
Did you really think this would salvage your dignity after all the stupid and pointless comments you’ve left here?
Yes, Miles, yes I do. Frankly, Miles, I enjoy the blog a great deal, and for some strange reason, Miles, I get a kick out it when Scott Greenfield gets a little grouchy (such language). Miles, I still don’t understand why saying “the real question is…” is so irksome, or off point. But it is what it is, Miles. More to the point, Miles, I think the Republicans will take both houses, despite the Dodd decision, but I don’t think they will be able to overide any veto. With that said, Miles, I come back to my first observation. Its one thing to promises, its another to deliver. I dont think they can. Time will tell, Miles. Time will tell. And why start my own blog, Miles, when this blog is pretty good.
I can do some predictions.
Lauren Boebert will in the near future be revealed through a DNA test administered by Steve Harvey on live television to be the long lost, illegitimate daughter of professional wrestling legend Dennis Condrey of the “Midnight Express” tag team.
Videos and/or photos of Marjorie Taylor Greene drunkenly barking at a male staffer while humping his leg at an event in Athens will surface. Georgia fans will praise her for her school spirit and dedication to the team.
Blake Masters will win his Arizona race and celebrate by recreating the “Coppertone Girl” logo seen on sunscreen bottles. This will grace the cover of a conservative publication.
Dr. Oz will win Pennsylvania and celebrate with overpriced veggie trays he calls “crudites.”
At the end of the day, some people who are full of shit will stay in office while some people who are full of shit will be elected to office. Wednesday morning we’ll get up, collectively recognize they’re all full of shit, and go about our day.
Mr. Seaton I would observe your contribution seems to favor the quote attributed to Mark Twain:
Don’t vote for politicians it only encourages them”…
Any day the bullshit I write gets someone thinking of Twain I consider that a win. Thank you!
They don’t understand. Our “elites” I mean.
Pew Research (who is supposed to be non-partisan) published the results of a survey last week:
61% of Americans think the Republicans suck
57% of Americans think the Democrats suck
56% of Americans want a third party.
They’ve turned the country off by appealing to the most rabid dogs on their side. Every election is a “lesser of two evils and hope we get gridlock” election.
I am a member of the Grid Lock Party (GLP). A comfortable Republican House, a dysfunctional Senate, and the White House (currently vacant) is about as good as it gets.
I am hoping the Democratic Party receives an electoral drubbing strong enough to break the wall of denial that the voters are wrong when Democrats lose. I’m also hoping a flip of the House will bring about just retribution for two years of baseless cruelty in the name of Covid, because a man can dream. Realistically I expect more of the same and hope to stop my state’s more idiotic ballot measures and break the super majority
You must live in California.
Oregon, which is halfway down the slippery slope to California.
The death of democracy is unrelated to one or the other side of the uniparty winning the election. Democracy dies when nobody is on the ballot who represents the people who are voting. Why are we faced with a choice between left and right nutjobs who stake out increasingly ridiculous positions every cycle? Because there is no real difference between the parties. Democrat and Republican politicians agree on all of the important issues. Proxy war against Russia? Both sides love it, ignoring the opinion of the vast majority of Americans, who hate it despite the unrelenting barrage of war propaganda that spews from every media outlet. Experimental gene therapy injections for a slightly more infectious strain of the flu? Trump and Biden agree – line up for your government injection, or you are a traitor, and when it is no longer possible to fool everyone, call for amnesty for those who lied and stole, while still pushing the “vaccine” on the gullible and vulnerable. Only a few lonely nutjobs dare to criticize the bi-partisan mainstream dogma on any real issue. This isn’t democracy, and it hasn’t been for a long time.
I think it’ll be a mixed bag. I think Republicans gain big in the House, and wind up around 53-47 in the Senate by the time the Georgia runoff is done. Enough to thwart Biden but not do much on their own. I think there will be odd happenings here and there that will give rise to hyperbolic claims of suppression and other hanky panky; but we’ll see how it goes.
Personally, I think we go back to paper ballots, have them counted at the precinct and verified at the election headquarters in full view of everyone who wants to watch.
Paper ballots counted by hand isn’t feasible in a county with 1.4 million voters and 100+ races, which is the situation in Houston. Even if it was possible, the election deniers on all sides would claim there were new problems in any race where their chosen one didn’t win. That’s the reality we have now.
The whole “death of democracy” thing makes no sense. If Republicans were up to all the alleged shenanigans to defeat the election, how could that be stymied by voting for Democrats? The argument contradicts its own core premise.
I predict that voters upset by the doddering and obviously senile old fool will try to limit the harm he can cause by electing more Republicans to congress. I do not think this should be taken as a sign that voters want the delusional psychopath back.
Gonna go with that old classic, “It’s the economy, stupid!” and add a dash of “people seem to be lying to the anonymous phone voices asking about their votes more these days” and “anticipate” (to use our host’s word) a lot more Reds than the media and pollsters are predicting.