#elections2022 — Public Fediverse posts

A lot of journalists really appear to have dropped the ball on researching this candidate BEFORE he was elected.

"Incoming congressman’s claims his grandparents fled the Holocaust contradicted by genealogy records": https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/politics/george-santos-geneaology/index.html

#Journalism #NewsLiteracy #JournalismFails #Genealogy #GenealogyWins #Histodons #History #Politics #Elections2022 #Holocaust @geneadons @histodons

This story is nuts. How did all this not come up during the actual campaign? #politics #elections2022 #UnitedStatesCongress #NY #NY3rdCongressionalDistrict #fraud #GOP #QueensNY #NassauNY

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/george-santos-appears-lied-backstory-1234649659/

Native Voters deliver big wins in #Arizona midterm elections

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/14/2141825/--Native-Voters-deliver-big-wins-in-Arizona-midterm-elections

#NDN #IndigenousMastodon #Elections2022

In 2022 Midterms, Media Were Again Misled by Generic Ballot

Journalists typically treat the generic ballot as though it predicts the actual percentage of seats each party will win.

https://fair.org/home/in-2022-midterms-media-were-again-misled-by-generic-ballot/

#Elections2022 #Polling

I spent way too long on this, but here's a map of the 2022 election results in my county!
https://jimmyrocks.io/writings/County-Level-Election-Mapping-2022/
#GIS #maplibregljs #maps #elections2022 #elections #pennsylvania #northamptoncountypa

The Fog of War, and of Peace, and the resulting lack of clarity. Click here -- https://bit.ly/3X7x8HU -- to join Tom Tomorrow, Steve Kelley, Tim Campbell, Michael Ramirez, Pat Bagley, Christian Adams, Patrick Blower and Daniel Garcia. #BidenXiMeeting #WorldCup2022 #Elections2022

Now with control of the Senate, we can seat and watch Republicans destroy among themselves while blaming each other for the loss. #elections2022 #Politics

O melhor das eleições norte americanas é isto ser verdade e fazer escola.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/denying-the-2020-election-wasnt-a-winning-strategy-for-political-newcomers/ #elections2022

Please consider supporting the campaign of Marie Gluesenkamp Perez for Congress with a donation: https://marieforcongress.com. This is one of the “too close to call” races in WA state. Marie stepped forward to run a long-shot campaign for a Republican-held seat and is currently up by thousands of votes, but we won’t know outcome for a few more days (or longer) #Elections2022 #WADem #Vote

@Gabygoldstein Important. Thanks for pointing this out. #Politics #Elections2022

Actually, as from my previous list on what I hope the US Congress would pass, I would change

Scrap EV rebates for areas deserved by public transit

To

Scrap EV rebates in states not powered by renewable energy.

There is a finite supply of EV, so they should go in places where it can actually reduces emissions #uspol #elections2022 #congress #midterm #environment

Good thoughts on the midterms (in perspective) along with questions about trying to predict...

#MidtermElections #polling #elections2022

https://fallows.substack.com/p/the-political-press-needs-a-time