The 2022 Midterm Elections

[Motown Bombers]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

Biden has a very low favorability rating.  you need to consider other candidates.  Sanders has done better than most candidates in past primaries.  I see nothing wrong with him running again.  He'll lose again, but so what?  

Biden's approval rating is higher than Reagan's at this point in his term. 

[Motown Bombers]

Let's not forget that Tulsi is still a fellow at the Sanders institute. 

Tulsi Gabbard - Sanders Institute

And Bernie Sanders was Russia's preferred candidate. 

[pfife]

speaking of not being able to get over Sanders's loss.... 

Edited August 23, 2022 by pfife

[Motown Bombers]

Progressives: Biden is too old

Also Progressives: Bernie Sanders 2024

[mtutiger]

Bernie is gonna do what Bernie is gonna do. Having said that, it's a bit too cute to argue that age is an impediment to a Biden 2024 run while simultaneously pushing a Sanders run.

Not saying that anyone in particular here is doing that, but do see that on SM some.

Edited August 23, 2022 by mtutiger

[Motown Bombers]

Bernie being Bernie is just going to hurt Democrats. Biden is the leader of the party until he dies or announces he isn't running. Nobody was telling Reagan or Trump not to run when they were both old and had similarly poor approval ratings. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[mtutiger]

Good Lord, the political instincts on Dr. Oz are bad....

[mtutiger]

Another lackluster special for the Rs

[romad1]

Sounds like the energy is on the side of the Ds this November.   Cook political report seems to think a lot of it is lack of energy on Trump base's side as well as all the Dobbs anger.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[romad1]

this feels significant even though in normal times it would be unspectacular that the non-overt racist wins. 

 

[romad1]

I heard Charlie Christ on Morning Joe just now...holy snikes he's running on Christian Love as his platform.   Will that work? 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Netnerd]

19 minutes ago, romad1 said:

I heard Charlie Christ on Morning Joe just now...holy snikes he's running on Christian Love as his platform.   Will that work? 

It might not work, but at least it’s proper. I’ll hold more respect for this than militant religiosity.

[mtutiger]

Did these caveats ever apply when the GOP were outkicking the coverage in specials last year?

Dems probably aren't winning the House, but idk what more needs to emerge to suggest that we currently aren't in wave territory 

[Motown Bombers]

Guess we are going to continue to say Democrats won't win the house because that is what is suppose to happen. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[romad1]

This gets a George Takei "Oh My"

 

[CMRivdogs]

Marco with the standard party line....

Remember when we thought he was a "smart" Republican. Before he got Trumped

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[oblong]

Give Donnie boy credit... he was right about Marco and Ted.

 

[romad1]

12 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Marco with the standard party line....

Remember when we thought he was a "smart" Republican. Before he got Trumped

 

I know a lot of people who vomit thinking about their votes for Ted Cruz as the only candidate left who could stop Trump at the end of 2016.   Marco Rubio should endorse Val Demmings and quit.  

[Motown Bombers]

 

[mtutiger]

6 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Even just a few months ago, there were no shortages of takes on the TX-34 Special Election (a GOP win and overperformance), which had roughly 27,500 votes total.

NY-19, OTOH, had a turnout of roughly 129,000 votes.

It's not even that the point doesn't have merit, but at least be consistent across elections.