My expectations were exceedingly low, yet somehow Biden is poised to have the "best" midterm showing since Bush Jr (which was during wartime).
The ads here were insane. Republicans tried to blame everything on Democrats:
- inflation (a worldwide phenomenon that not a single Republican proposed a solution for)
- crime and bail reform (which is up in certain places including many red states, but is ultimately a local issue. And a strong majority of current criminals aren't people out on bail. In other words, a bail reform campaign leading to more crime is a red herring).
- the border (Biden absolutely bears some blame for changing how illegal aliens are released, but this also misses the larger context that more and more people have been coming since Bush Jr's term and the continually deteriorating conditions in Central and South America only make illegal immigration more inviting to desperate people. Fairly well-represented in deportees are people who have been deported once or more).
The final tally isn't in yet, so not all the takeaways are available. The only takeaway available so far is a huge number of Trump-endorsed candidates didn't do well at all. Even Herschel Walker who is still somehow in a runoff is underperforming percentage-wise to the Republican governor that won re-election in Georgia (as John Mellencamp would say, "Ain't That America"). Braindead candidates that have the added touch of being assholes, or embrace electoral results
only when they win? Those people are loved by the Republican base, and that's about it.
In closing, the GOP would fare a lot better if they didn't get their candidate recommendations from the stable genius who said this
"In an interview with NewsNation conducted before polls closed, when asked how much credit he believed he deserved for any of the more than 330 candidates he endorsed throughout the cycle, Mr. Trump said, “Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all, OK, but it’ll probably be just the opposite.”
