We’re less than a week out from election day, and more than 20 million people have already cast their votes—a record number of early voters for a midterm election. But it isn’t so surprising when you consider the stakes: inflation at a 40-year high, economists saying we’re heading towards a recession, and the largest crime surge across America in decades, just to name a few small issues voters may be thinking about.
Midterms are typically hard for the party in power, but President Biden’s approval numbers are among the worst for a first-term president. Given this, many are predicting a red wave. And yet, Republicans have problems of their own: candidates who spent their primaries trying to out-MAGA each other and continue to pedal election denial conspiracies; others who seem entirely unfit to serve. Then, of course, there’s the overturning of Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court having upended a half-century of abortion rights, many young voters, especially women, appear motivated this election cycle to vote against the GOP.
So what’s going to happen Tuesday? Will Democrats keep control of the Senate? The House? What races should we be watching? Could Oregon go red for the first time in decades? Today, as voters head to the ballot box, a roundtable with Mary Katharine Ham, Josh Kraushaar, and Batya Ungar-Sargon:
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I’m in PA.
Unless someone can explain why I must report to an office to get a mail in ballot yet somehow half a million are already in AND in 2020 77% of mail in ballots broke for Biden I call bullshit.
I’ll listen to the rest of the podcast but let’s get that elephant in the room now, because if you believe an election “season” and no-show voting isn’t designed to get a (sadly) brain-damaged Fetterman elected then you’re not paying attention.
This time when I vote I wonder if it will take 3.5 hours like 2020. And that only happened out in my heavily Republican suburb of Philly. Allentown, Philly voting took 15 minutes. One reason was “consolidation” of polling places only in suburbs.
Again.
If you can’t see that happen and ask why you’ve missed election abuse.
Let’s see what’s what after next Tuesday.
If Fetterman wins I’ll know why. And how.
Q. Will there be a Red Wave?
A. 1. The Democrats most effective leader, Obama, is campaigning in safe Democrat seats, not in purple seats. So he certainly thinks so.
A. 2. The cost of food is up 40% in the last year. The 9% infation rate is nonsense.
A. 3. Climate Alarmism is expensive. The cost of energy is up significantly and it won’t go down unless America returns to traditional sources of energy.
A. 4. There is a real shortage of supplies. It’s almost like we’ve been time-travelled to the Soviet Union.