I always end up exhausted the day after election day. But, as a politics nerd, no matter what the polls state, I’m always glued and fascinated by election results.
Tuesday was no exception, and I find myself particularly exhausted this morning mainly because the results were underwhelming. It seems as though the House will likely have a Republican majority, albeit not nearly as much of a majority as they should’ve given the unfavorability of President Biden.
The Senate seems poised to be in the same position it was before, with yet another Georgia runoff more than likely on the horizon because that’s precisely what the American people want, more election and polling talk. So what does this all mean, you might wonder?
Don’t worry; actor James Woods has the answer.
Only one clear truth emerged from this election: this country is evenly divided and each side thinks the other is literally insane.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 9, 2022
Division And Insanity
Known to tweet out golden nuggets of awesomeness from time to time, James Woods shot out a tweet after the midterms with the following:
“Only one clear truth emerged from this election: this country is evenly divided and each side thinks the other is literally insane.”
I couldn’t agree more. However, I don’t think we necessarily think our fellow voters are necessarily insane, but the candidates we have to choose from might be. Let’s take a look at Pennsylvania, for example.
Polling places in Pennsylvania are running out of paper and voters are being forced to wait hours or simply leave and come back.
This is called disenfranchising voters!
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) November 8, 2022
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John Fetterman, who for all intents and purposes should’ve been easy to beat, will be a United States Senator. So am I surprised he beat out TV personality Mehmet Oz?
Do you mean the same candidate that gave a speech in front of a limo used by Adolf Hitler and spoke of how crudites are too expensive in the Biden economy? Shocking that Dr. Oz wasn’t able to connect to the everyday Pennsylvanian with crack-shot campaign moves like those.
The truth that nobody wants to hear is that there was a fair share of Republican candidates who couldn’t land the plane on election night and probably never would because they weren’t the right candidate in the first place. But there is also something larger at play.
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Is Anybody Listening?
Last night the most exciting part of the election coverage was Fox News with their Fox News Voter Analysis breakdown. They polled 90,000 voters on various questions, indicating a more precise illustration of what last night showed.
Fetterman opens the debate:
"Hi. Good night everybody." pic.twitter.com/lkNPtkoD2l
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 26, 2022
Not surprisingly, 75% of those polled are dissatisfied with how the government is working, which has been the general theme from voter polls for months. When asked about their opinions regarding President Biden and President Trump, 58% had an unfavorable view of Biden and 51% unfavorable of Trump.
And while you could argue that this was the midterm and wasn’t an election between Biden and Trump, both Presidents made it an election about the two of them. Which I think explains the lackluster performance of the Republican Party.
When the analysis got into issues, that’s where it gets fascinating; let’s look at three specific areas:
- Abortion – 62% favor national law guaranteeing access to abortion
- Gun laws – 57% prefer stricter gun laws
- Supreme Court – 51% approve of their performance
Now that is interesting. Voters are starting to have slightly more complex feelings about issues than straight down the ballot red or blue team beliefs.
Pendulum
I had a great boss while I was stationed in North Carolina who used to lament that in the military, we often would ‘swing the pendulum too far’ in either direction when needing to course correct. This hope to swing the needle to the right in some dramatic ‘red wave’ was a losing strategy from the get-go.
A better option would’ve been to focus on a long-game approach and aim to push the needle not toward the right necessarily, but toward the voter. Instead, both Democrats and Republicans focused too much on demographics instead of actual voters.
Early this morning, Congressman Kevin McCarthy prematurely and meekly announced that “we are going to take the House back,” adding:
“If you believe in freedom, hard work and the American dream these results prove there is a place for you in the Republican Party. We are expanding this party.”
It’s all well and good to talk of concepts like freedom, hard work, and the American dream – but what voters wanted and needed was an actual unified platform to get excited about.
So how exactly was voting for Republicans going to change the course of our retirement accounts, make us safer, and reign in government overreach?
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It’s not enough to say the other guy sucks; voters want to know precisely what you will do better.
Second GOP source sees below tweet, texts me “Knives are out for Kevin McCarthy, if he is under 225, expect Scalise to make a move quickly for speaker” https://t.co/AQF55yZaGM
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) November 9, 2022
There Is Hope
Last night proved that President Biden is no uniter; the country is divided. It also confirmed that last night would not bring about the end of democracy as we know it; if anything, it proved our democracy still works rather well.
The House and Senate will represent how our country feels, divided and at odds with each other. However, there was one particular Republican that seemed to get how to inspire constituents.
Governor Ron DeSantis should be feeling pretty damn good today after flipping Miami-Dade County and essentially moving Florida from a swing state to a red state. The Republican Party should be paying attention because what DeSantis has, they should want to bottle up and sprinkle on their future candidates.
It’s not enough to be a candidate that is a minority or a veteran with a shiny bio. It’s also not enough to be a “shock jock” candidate with great media quips, bite-backs, and liberal pundits.
You have to listen to your constituents and have a solid platform. Say what you want about today’s Democratic Party (and trust me, I’ve probably said it), but they have a unified message.
It’s a crazy ideological message, but it’s unified. The Republican message is what? You either must love Trump or hate Trump and Biden is terrible?
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All that does is further divide the country and make us all look at one another like we might be crazy—time to get it together and rally, perhaps behind the guy who actually caused a red wave.
DeSantis blew the competition away while much of the rest of the Republican Party underperformed. What exactly is the argument against DeSantis 2024?
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) November 9, 2022
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The amount of voters in favor of abortion rights 66%, was it? I don’t believe that for half a second. State the poll and who did it! Ridiculous!
I think too many people miss what is really happening in America today. And in spite of the fact most of you will laugh at, curse at and smear me I’m going to say it anyway. Satan has control over most of our elected leaders, especially the Democrats and thus Satan is having his way with us. We can’t beat Satan and once his minions gain control; without God you won’t vote them out. That’s why God tells us “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Believe it or not!
i dont believe anything FAUX news puts out there. These fools were on the take from the govt. in their big covid vaccine push. They were paid to promote false and fake news.
They are mainstream media on steroids now.
Quite sad in that these results truly show the power and influence the radical left wing press has over the electorate. Using crass terms as ‘fascist Republicans”, a ‘fight for Democracy’ only shows the illiteracy of the masses.
The electorate is not thinking for themselves or the country, they are being molded into ‘lock-step’ tyranny ideologues.
When McCarthy said he is not going to impeach Biden, despite two impeachments of President Trump by the Democrat-controlled house, the illegal alien invasion caused by Biden’s open door policies, and the war on energy, then McCarthy is saying that he is going to play paddy cake with the Democrat Bolsheviks.
Unfortunately, many of the older patriots passed away during the lockdowns. The younger generation voters have been pressured into socialist thinking through their schools. We need to make a huge effort to talk to our younger about what our country truly represents.
Woods is correct, but when put to the logic and morality test only one side is appropriately named (“Right”) and sane. For instance, how can a side in favor of killing babies be logical or moral? How can a side in favor of excessive spending against all economic principles be logical? How can a side that doesn’t know what a woman is be logical? It can’t.
We call them professional sophist for a reason.
‘A half truth can be more detrimental than a whole lie.’ Ben Franklin
90k European Union Voters, made a wish list that military moms agree with.
NO, people who work in military and gov bureaucracy aren’t misandrist, they’re benevolent egalitarians. (in their opinion as BA holders)
Every generation must witness/ experience the ancient account of “Cain v. Able”. There is no alternative. America’s 1860 POTUS election also witnessed a polarized nation.
I see the Political Insider isn’t as conservative as it claims to be. The censor police did not allow my comment to be posted.
You are wrong Mr. Woods. There are substantially more conservatives. Stop the election corruption and this will become clear.
I wish people would stop trying to divide the Republican Party, with the DeSantis vs Trump BS. DeSantis has said numerous times he has so much more to do to help Floridians at this time. Come 2028 he may consider a run!
We now have two mental defectives in our government. Congratulations to the People’s Republic of Pennsylvania. Guess you don’t want jobs in your state.
Great writeup. I would only add two things: (1) GOP needs to encourage early voting. Day of voting gets too risky, e.g. snow on election day in northern Nevada this year that could have been a worse storm. (2) We need better responses to Democrats’ lies. We had a good one “Democracy IS the ballot” to counter their “Democracy is on the ballot” slogan, but we didn’t have any good responses to their Abortion misinformation claims or their illegal Student Loan Giveaway or their Social Security misinformation claims. Knowing that legacy media isn’t on our side, we need better short counter points that can be disseminated quickly and easily to busy people.
The VERY FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS 3 JAN AT NOON SHOULD BE TO IMPEACH JOE BIDEN & the other clowns Harris & Garland!
Two more years until the Presidential election, Joe might not make it, he is still underwhelming and has so many more crucial mistakes to make…..DeSantis looks unbeatable but torpedoes are already in the water and now we will have to wait to see if his boat will float…..DJT is not helping his own cause……
it would appear the Dem’s are headline readers , not the sharpest knife in the drawer
Three takeaways from these immensely disappointing results (with a few exceptions):
1. What happened in Florida is what *should* have happened across the country, but the national Republican Party absolutely sucks at politics.
2. The average American voter is either hopelessly uninformed or willfully ignorant, and while the pathetically biased media bears a huge responsibility for this, the Leftist corruption of the education system at every level is also complicit.
3. Trump is a liability and if he runs in 2024, Republicans will not win, no matter whether Trump is the nominee or otherwise. If Trump does not bow out, graciously or otherwise, there is no scenario in which Republicans will be able to overcome the albatross of Trump. There was a time where he was an egotistical, orange, giant middle finger to the establishment and actually governed well for three of his four years in office, but post-2020, he has become an egomaniacal man-baby who is psychologically incapable of moving past the slight of having an election ‘stolen’ from him (whether there is a legitimate case for election fraud or not, his fixation on that instead of moving forward to save the country cost us the red wave).
If we get the House (which shouldn’t even be a question, but this showing was pathetic by the national Party), at least we should stop the Biden administration from flushing the country any further down the toilet, but we have a serious problem in 2024 looming.
MIKE LINDEL REPORTED ON INFOWARS . COM ACROSS THE BOARD COMPUTER CHEATING BY THE DEMOCRATS IN THIS PAST ELECTION. VIDEO WILL BE ON BANNED . VIDEO.com
Why am I the only one who seems to realize that it is not our great governor who is leading this red wave in Florida , IT IS JUST MUCH HARDER TO CHEAT! Good God, ALL of the evidence is RIGHT there and everyone just looks away like its nothing. The usual suspects ( Ga, Mi, Az, et al) ALL seem to have VERY odd results. Well, why do you think that is??????
PS. This is the same reason Warnock is a lock to win. Too easy to cheat there, and you KNOW the DemoKKrats will
great analysis,,, if only trump would read and heed this.
We need leadership, goals and a program to get there. GOP still doesn’t have it or get it. Name calling and tantrums do not cut it.
Never discount the massive fraud Democrats commit every election cycle.
NYC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Madison, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and the whole state of California. The usual suspects.
It’s not a mystery why these areas always have “peculiarities” and always decide the winners.
This is the most honest and balanced commentary I’ve ever seen on this site. Excellent. It’s about time we stop with the stupid name-calling and 6th grade bullying. We are all Americans. All Republicans do not agree with trump’s lies and excuses, all Democrats are not “far left Socialist Commies” (?), to quote someone I read. This country has bigger problems to solve together. We have much to be proud of, many blessings, and still, the greatest standard of living on the planet. The GOP has to get its dignity back.
“ I don’t think we necessarily think our fellow voters are necessarily insane, “
THEN YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
You’re a FROG that’s already been BOILED if you don’t think that people who believe that MEN MENSTRUATE and WOMEN HAVE PENISES and you can BE ONE GENDER TODAY AND ANOTHER GENDER TOMORROW ARE INSANE!!!! BECAUSE THEY ARE.
McCarthy should not be in charge of ANYTHING. Trump should stay (away from cameras and microphones) in Florida playing golf. Q U I E T L Y. Ancient politicians should finally retire (did you hear that, Liary?). “Red Tsunami” my a$$…
What can ya say, the dems are more for each other than the republicans. The repubs. didn’t get out and vote. Look what the dems did, they elected a dead man.
While I agree with Mr. Woods general assessment, Greg Gutfeld expressed it more succinctly.
The Right thinks the Left is wrong. They have wrong ideas. And even when they occasionally have a good idea, it is poorly or incorrectly executed.
The Left thinks the Right is evil. Period.
Horrible results = Voters rejecting GOP leadership!
We want patriot leaders, not ones who are in bed with the CCP, literally.
just what is the CCP
Don Bolduc is a patriotic leader who is not in bed with the CCP and he lost. The problem is not with the candidates or with the issues they run on. The problem lies with the election mechanics and process being easily manipulated because machines do the counting and no one can see that the counting is accurate. Hand counted ballots always works and is not complicated or impossible. Elections should be held on Election Day, not before with early voting, not after with mass dumps of “mail in” ballots of dubious authenticity. Voting should be done by registered citizens with proper ID and not people who show up on election day saying “I want to vote.” Same Day Registration is a means to cook the election. Finally, the most important element is an informed electorate. The news media is not honest nor unbiased and they do not honor their right to freedom of the press by engaging in responsible reporting. Big Tech is not a friend of the people or of democracy.
I can not be the only person who finds it suspect that voting machines failed on voting day. This event was not a surprise. Elections officials knew it was coming. Are we to believe that the machines were not tested and prepared well in advance? Or maybe we should believe that they were well prepared well in advance of this election just like the Maricopa machines were withheld from inspection when there was nothing to hide.
The Democrats could not afford to lose this election, so they didn’t.
I totally agree with you Jeff, and there is no way in heck that Kevin McCarthy or Steve Scalise should be Speaker. If we are fortunate enough to control the House, it should be a person more like Jim Jordan. We are tired of slick politicians! Just the fact that Nanny Pelosi didn’t want Jordan on the J6 “committee” should tell everybody that Jordan can be a sh!t kicker! Which is exactly what we need for a Speaker! So let’s dispense with the Kevin McCarthy or Steve Scalise talk and move for a person who will actually get stuff done!
The Democrats are the ones in bed with the CCP. Biden and family taking millions and Millions from a Russian Mayor’s family, as well as from Ukraine and China. Pelosi with the insider trading, is there anything at all you people can’t take off your blinders, see what the DNC is doing, get some help for the TDS. In the meantime enjoy the high gas prices and out of control Inflation, while Biden stumbles around looking for someone to shake his hand or the invisible Rabbit
did the voters reject or did the machines manipulate?