#2022midterms — Public Fediverse posts
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Watch #Missouri Senator #JoshHawley say that after the promised ‘#RedWave ‘ did not sweep the #UnitedStates during the #2022midterms , “The #RepublicanParty is dead.” ☠️ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8nw49e3/
Yup. That tracks!
#VoteBlue to #SaveAmerica from #WalkingDead #GOP zombies! 🧟♂️
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A spokesman for #JStreet, accused Aipac of attempting to impose a narrow definition of what it is to be pro-Israel:
“#Aipac may hope to silence and intimidate political leaders who believe that settlement expansion, endless conflict and permanent occupation are harmful to Israel, the Palestinian people and US interests. Ultimately, however, these common-sense views are too popular, widespread and important to be suppressed.”
#2022MidTerms: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/18/pro-israel-lobby-group-aipac-midterms-election-deniers-and-extremist-republicans
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“It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms,” said the leader of the Republican Party.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a7m7/trump-abortion-midterms
#News #DonaldTrump #2022midterms #abortionrestrictions #electiondeniers #BlakeMasters #karilake #roev.wade -
The #GOP by flooded the news with shoddy polls that leaned their way. It was a #PSYOP that discouraged support of #democrat campaigns that otherwise had a decent possibility of winning, while at the same time setting false expectations of a #RedWave to their base — giving more oxygen to the "stolen election" lies.
Gift article linked below.
The ‘Red Wave’ Washout: How Skewed Polls Fed a False Election Narrative https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/politics/polling-election-2022-red-wave.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSlUYAibIRp8_qRmHmfnE2_skgXv6LS6aDDtGwu8JAo-Gvh2VP_AmfdY_miuSWtIHMKMqQLY66N5jCHFXalvipIqYytNCKj8pqIm3UyQ_05ySAOljoHrkNjazbboimrD6thmLaX3sC6za2SErJlpiqZB1ZBr9jyxzs6TGG-9_2dB_1f0zVNstFXpbOn7877S_AA5-Od6Gchnc9gM1PuldUj3WltWcgKkSJEQQURmVCSMivhtvrY9UK9gVP6zgLhY_eMeYgboZDmJgL4zBFIR4Jygsor5RpO1jH73FrPm8
#politics #USPolitics #democrats #election #elections #2022Midterms #polls #polling #StolenElection #ElectionIntegrity #VoterFraud #republican #republicans #disinformation #propaganda
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Well done, GA voters!
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CW: Politics, COVID, preventable deaths, midterms
In all the analyses of the US midterms I've read so far people were emphasising the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade as motivating young people and women to vote, thus stopping the expected "red wave" from swamping the Democrats and giving the GOP the Senate and the House with a large majority. And it probably was one of the causative factors, but certainly not the only one.
There was no red wave, and one of the causes of this unexpected result may have been the fact that the Republican party has been killing its own voters.
There's an NBER paper establishing quite a significant difference in excess death rates by voter registration:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30512/w30512.pdf
"Post- vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available."
While there were many races with clear outcomes (like Arizona's Kelly v. Masters), there were many very close races, like Nevada's Senate race, where Masto won by less than ~10000 votes, 0.8pp, or like the Mosley v Gagne race in New Hamshire, won by the Democratic candidate by one vote.
The excess death rates of GOP voters caused by the anti-vaccine, anti-mask grift of the Trumpist republican party probably contributed significanty to the above-expectations performance of the Dems.
It's really sad, when you think about it.