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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #50 on: December 23, 2021, 04:10:25 PM »
House Democrats Lucille Roybal-Allard and Albio Sires head for the exits, bringing total to 23
By Callie Patteson
December 21, 2021
https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/house-dems-lucille-roybal-allard-albio-sires-wont-seek-reelection/

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #51 on: December 23, 2021, 04:13:31 PM »
GENERIC BALLOT: REPUBLICANS 44% DEMOCRATS 38%
Posted on December 17, 2021 | by Staff Writer
https://scottrasmussen.com/generic-ballot-republicans-44-democrats-38/

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #52 on: January 04, 2022, 09:30:56 PM »
Rep. Bobby Rush becomes 24th House Democrat not to seek re-election
By Callie Patteson
January 4, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/rep-bobby-rush-will-not-seek-reelection-in-2022/

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #53 on: January 20, 2022, 02:00:42 PM »
Trafalgar: 38.7% Approval Rating for Biden; Voters Prefer GOP Over Dems 55.7% to 42.2%
By Debra Heine
January 20, 2022

New polls conducted by the Trafalgar Group show Joe Biden’s approval numbers still in the cellar, and congressional Democrats lagging behind Republicans by over 13 points on the generic ballot.

Of the 1,083 likely general election voters surveyed between 01/12/22 and 01/15/22, just 38.7 percent approved of Biden’s performance and 59.2 percent disapproved. Nearly 50 percent of voters said they strongly disapprove of the job Biden is doing.

Among Republicans, a mere 10.1 percent approve, and 88.3 percent disapprove. Biden also polled poorly with unaffiliated voters as well, garnering only 30.8 approval versus 67.7 percent disapproval.

Biden still enjoys majority support among Democrats with 71.7 percent approving of his job performance, and 25.6 percent disapproving.

A December Trafalgar poll saw similarly poor numbers, with just 36.3 percent of Americans approving of Biden’s performance in the White House, and 59.1 percent disapproving.

Last week, a Quinnipiac University survey found that only 33 percent of voters approved of Biden’s job performance.

Trafalgar’s party preference poll, conducted between 01/12/22 and 01/15/22, resulted in very ominous numbers for congressional Democrats.

The pollster asked 1,077 likely general election voters, “if the election for Congress were held today, which candidate would you vote for?”

Respondents said they preferred Republicans over Democrats 55.7 percent to 42.2 percent.

Biden’s first year in office was marked by a series of self-inflicted disasters and failures, including his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the worsening COVID pandemic that he promised to end, inflation, high gas prices, the border crisis, his executive overreach, his increasingly authoritarian behavior, his intentionally divisive policies, and his declining mental state.

Former President Trump responded to Biden’s long and meandering press conference Wednesday on the The Mark Levin Show, agreeing that Biden has indeed made enormous progress—”destroying our country.”

“When you look at the border with millions of people coming in, when you look at inflation, you look at no more energy independence, we have a much different country than we had a year ago,” Trump said.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/20/trafalgar-38-7-approval-rating-for-biden-voters-prefer-gop-over-dems-55-7-to-42-2/

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #54 on: January 20, 2022, 02:01:22 PM »
Two more House Democrats announce they will not seek reelection
JOHN SEXTON Jan 18, 2022
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/01/18/two-more-house-democrats-announce-they-will-not-seek-reelection-n442422

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #55 on: January 24, 2022, 06:21:41 PM »
Pretty funny.   :)

Biden a 'liability' after he pledges to campaign for Democrats in midterm elections
by Naomi Lim, White House Reporter |   | January 23, 2022
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-a-liability-after-he-pledges-to-campaign-for-democrats-in-midterm-elections

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #56 on: February 08, 2022, 08:06:25 AM »

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #57 on: February 08, 2022, 10:07:54 AM »
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-midterms


Libs in utter panic!

only the full-on, pure braindead retards are standing by them.
got a few here at getbig.

With the midterm elections on the horizon, the party is alienating its base and losing public confidence.   :D

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #58 on: February 11, 2022, 12:31:34 PM »
Is Biden's Midterm Going to be Obama 2.0?
How Bad Will the Midterms be for Democrats in State Legislatures
Ryan James Girdusky
Feb 9
https://natpop.substack.com/p/is-bidens-midterm-going-to-be-obama

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #59 on: February 11, 2022, 04:08:01 PM »
Somebody post the meme about "midterms are coming.....end the mandates!!" :D
Liar!!!!Filt!!!!

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #60 on: February 11, 2022, 06:23:34 PM »
Somebody post the meme about "midterms are coming.....end the mandates!!" :D
We knew this was going to happen

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #61 on: February 11, 2022, 06:38:18 PM »
Somebody post the meme about "midterms are coming.....end the mandates!!" :D

I was just telling someone today that I think President Biden will end federal mask mandates just in time for the midterms.  That was after I spent a lotta hours wearing that stupid mask on a couple of airplanes.   >:(

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #62 on: February 15, 2022, 09:37:06 AM »
And Rice Makes 30...Democrat Rep. Kathleen Rice from New York’s 4th District Announces Retirement
survivethenews.com ^ | 2/15/22
Posted on 2/15/2022, 12:14:08 PM by

US Representative Kathleen Rice (D-NY) announced on Tuesday she will not seek reelection this year for Congress.

According to Patch.com Rep. Rice won her first term in 2015. She is the second Long Island Representative to announce she will not seek reelection this year.

At least 30 Democrats will not seek reelection in the US House in the 2022 election.

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #63 on: February 15, 2022, 12:38:43 PM »
The Midterms Will End The Pandemic
Reason ^ | 2.15.2022 | Eric Boehm
Posted on 2/15/2022, 1:41:49 PM


Seven out of 10 Americans say "it's time we accept COVID is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives." Politicians are taking notice.

It takes a lot to make a libertarian look forward to the next election.

Like, say, two years of miserable government mandates ignored by some of the very people imposing them. Like watching over 70,000 maskless adults (and many celebrities) partying at a major sporting event in a city where children are required to wear medical-grade masks to school and keep them on while playing sports. Like imposing border controls on immigration and travel meant to stop the spread of COVID-19, and then keeping them in place (with no off-ramp) long after the virus is spreading here.

For once, we can be thankful that another election season is already upon us since politics is the last realm where the pandemic is dominating decision-making. The economy emerged from the omicron wave in better shape than expected. Sunday's Super Bowl was the latest signal that lots of Americans are done with the health theatrics of the past two years. But even the political class' commitment to COVID policy is wavering. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and President Joe Biden might be refusing to offer much hope that COVID-related mandates should be lifted soon, but they are increasingly being undone by rank-and-file Democrats who are looking at favorability ratings that are falling nearly as fast as COVID case counts.

In New York, for example, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul announced last week that businesses will no longer be required to enforce masking of unvaccinated customers. California's indoor mask mandate will expire this week, even though some local governments will keep similar rules in place—Sunday's Super Bowl was supposedly subject to Los Angeles' mandate, though you wouldn't have known that from shots of the overwhelmingly unmasked crowd seen on television.

Schools are finally easing up on mask rules that never made much sense since children are generally not at risk of serious illness from COVID. Connecticut's school masking mandate will end later this month, and New Jersey's will follow suit on March 7. Delaware's is set to end at the end of March. In all three cases, the orders came from Democratic governors in blue states.

But a more telling example of the sentiment sweeping the country came from Virginia, where the Democratic-controlled state Senate voted 29–9 last week to let parents decide whether their kids wear masks in school, regardless of what policies local school boards might have in place. Given how closely support for mask mandates have mapped onto partisan alliances over the past year or so, that's a resoundingly bipartisan statement.

On Monday, the state House passed the bill as well, sending it to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's desk. He is expected to sign it.

Politics are always downstream of culture, and all democratic systems are ultimately grounded in the will of the people. In the American system, the people don't often get to make decisions directly—instead, elections act as a sort of feedback system for those in power. You can pretty much do whatever you want after getting elected, but eventually (every two or four or six years) you'll have to face the voters again.

The pandemic helped expose what happens when that feedback system is disrupted, as governors in many states seized on emergency power statutes to cut the legislature out of the pandemic-rulemaking process.

After Being Illegally Imprisoned for Almost a Year, Bobby Sneed Is Finally Free Some might argue that's a benefit, not a flaw. Government must respond to a crisis quickly and there might not be time for legislative deliberation.

That's true, to a point. Two years in, we're no longer in a crisis. We're in a situation that can be addressed via the regular functioning of democratic government. And when the system is allowed to work as intended, and policy makers who have to face reelection on a regular basis (as state lawmakers do) face the prospect of voting for or against mandatory masking in schools—well, just look at what happened in Virginia.

Or look at the polls. A survey from Monmouth University released on January 31 found that 70 percent of Americans (and 47 percent of Democrats) agreed that "it's time we accept COVID is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives." The same poll found that support for vaccine mandates has dropped by 10 percent since September of last year, while support for social distancing requirements (like limiting capacity in indoor settings) was down 11 percent over the same period. Those trends seem likely to continue as omicron vanishes into the rearview mirror and warmer weather arrives.

Just 38 percent of likely voters view COVID-19 as "a public health emergency," according to a January poll from Echelon Insights, while 55 percent said it "should be treated as an endemic disease that will never fully go away."

Those polls and the looming midterms have Democrats searching "for a new message" on the pandemic in advance of the midterms, The New York Times reported last month. The party is "keenly aware that Americans—including even some of the party's loyal liberal voters—have changed their attitudes about the virus and that it could be perilous to let Republicans brand the Democrats the party of lockdowns and mandates."

Getting in the way of that new message, however, is the same tendency that's tripped up government responses to the pandemic since it began: engaging in social psychology, rather than simply delivering the facts and trusting the public to make their own decisions.

That's accomplished two things. Some people feel, probably correctly, like they're being manipulated by ever-changing government messaging and simply tune it all out. Others have adopted a devout, almost religious response to public health authorities' exhortations—complete with moral condemnations of those who don't feel the same way. Neither is ideal if the goal is to collectively combat a deadly disease and the predictable result is the heightened politicization of every aspect of pandemic response.

But they're still doing it. "We are moving toward a time when Covid doesn't disrupt our daily lives," an anonymous senior administration official told Politico last week. "But in order to get people to view the pandemic differently, they have to feel differently about the pandemic."

This might be news to the Biden administration, but most Americans seem to have already changed how they "feel" about the pandemic. Yes, even liberals and even residents of urban areas. Just look at all those cheering fans at the Super Bowl, blatantly and nonchalantly disregarding the rules. That attitude is now working its way downstream with alacrity. Some Democrats, like Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, were ahead of the curve, and others are finally getting the message.

It's possible that these changes in COVID policy are being driven by, as they say, following the science. Case counts are falling and the promise of warmer weather is right around the corner in much of the country. Maybe Democrats aren't playing politics at all, and are merely adjusting strategies as the circumstances dictate?

Be skeptical of that conclusion: Biden doesn't have to face reelection until 2024. The CDC never has to go before the voters. But state and local lawmakers are being more responsive to the emerging will of the people, who are increasingly indicating—both in polls and in their behavior—that they've had enough masking and restrictions.

That's the democratic system working as it is intended.


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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #65 on: February 16, 2022, 07:54:08 PM »
Trafalgar Poll: Republicans Show 12 Point Lead over Democrats on Generic Ballot
JACOB BLISS
15 Feb 2022
https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2022/02/15/trafalgar-poll-republicans-show-12-point-lead-over-democrats-on-generic-ballot/

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #66 on: February 17, 2022, 04:39:15 AM »
Democrats face blowback over COVID-19 policies
The HIll ^ | 02/17/22 06:00 AM EST | BY JULIA MANCHESTER
Posted on 2/17/2022, 6:29:30 AM


Coronavirus policies are beginning to boomerang on Democrats, as polls underscore public fatigue with both the pandemic and the policies intended to keep it from spreading.

Democrats have been generally unified in backing vaccinations and the use of masks and mask mandates by local communities to stop the spread, but the party's voters are becoming more divided on the continued aggressive use of such restrictions, and frustration is mounting.

In San Francisco on Tuesday, three school board members were recalled in a special recall election. The recall wasn't entirely related to COVID-19, but voters in the liberal enclave were partly upset the board members had focused on renaming schools instead of reopening them swiftly and safely.

A number of Democratic governors have taken note of the frustrations, moving to lift their mask mandates even as the Biden administration has signaled it would stick to stricter guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Still, the party’s generally strict stance on coronavirus safety measures could end up backfiring as Democrats find themselves on defense going into the midterms.

Republicans are already using the issue to go on the offense against Democrats, calling it hypocritical.

“The science never changed. The science didn’t matter,” said Joanna Rodriguez, deputy communications director at the Republican Governor’s Association. “The science was an excuse they used in order to control people’s lives and rule people in a way that they felt was appropriate while they played by their own rules.”

Republicans point to examples of Democrats appearing maskless in public settings as signs of what they say is their hypocrisy on the issue. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, along with most fans, appeared maskless in photos at the Super Bowl on Sunday despite L.A. County’s mask mandate for large outdoor events.

Meanwhile, Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams became the subject of GOP backlash when she appeared maskless in a photo with masked schoolchildren. Abrams later apologized.

“People are realizing that at the end of the day they are tired of having leaders who aren’t going to live by the rules that they’re forcing on everyone else,” Rodriguez said.

Democrats argue that the decisions being made by their leaders on coronavirus vary from state by state and are influenced by the science learned from the latest stage of the pandemic.

“Democratic governors have led the way in combating the pandemic, and the results show it. Instead of basing any decision on politics, their recommendations use the best science available to implement evidence-based policies that will work best in their states and for their constituents,” said Christina Amestoy, a senior adviser with the Democratic Governors Association. “While the execution may vary state to state, there is no ambiguity about the overarching goals: get the economy growing and keep people safe.”

Amestoy and Democrats have also hit Republicans over “dangerous anti-vax rhetoric,” or what they say is the denial that the pandemic is still ongoing.

“The contrast in leadership, and the lack thereof, could not be starker,” she said.

But Democratic leaders are also facing pushback from members of their own party on the issue of rolling back mask mandates.

The moves to lift mask mandates are in stark contrast with the Biden administration, which is sticking to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, at the end of last year while the omicron variant was surging in communities across the U.S., President Biden said the surge needed to be solved at the state level.

Washington, D.C., lifted its vaccine mandate this week and is set to lift its mask mandate next month, leading to one Democratic DC council member to propose legislation that would reinstate the city’s vaccine mandate.

And Democratic voters do not appear to be warming to the idea of lifting. A Politico/Morning Consult survey released on Wednesday found that 65 percent of Democrats think it’s too early for states to rescind mask mandates.

Democratic strategists and operatives maintain that its voters and leaders are not divided on COVID-19 strategy but say the pandemic has entered a new stage.

“We’re at a different stage because of the result of good policy-making decisions backed by scientists, by Biden, and by Democratic governors,” said one Democratic strategist.

Strategists argue that it’s too early to tell how the rollback of restrictions will impact the midterms, but acknowledge the party is on the defense going into November.

“We’re struggling right now because I think a lot of people see us as out of touch on inflation, they see us as out of touch on crime, and we just simply can’t afford to be viewed as out of touch on COVID,” said Tyler Law, a Democratic strategist and former national press secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Coachella returning without mask requirement A Monmouth University poll released last month found that 70 percent of respondents said they agreed with the sentiment “it’s time we accept that Covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives,” including 89 percent of Republicans, 71 percent of Independents and 47 percent of Democrats.

Democrats say the partisanship on the issue is unsurprising but warn the party should be cognizant of the views of voters in the middle.

“What we are seeing is the folks in the middle, who themselves are extremely likely to be vaccinated and boosted, they are starting to lose patience with the slow speed at which we return to normalcy,” Law said. “And so we can’t afford politically to lose those voters in the middle.”


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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #67 on: February 21, 2022, 06:28:06 AM »
US House candidate allegedly went on drunken tirade, vomited at pre-teen sleepover (guess which party)
NY Post ^ | 2-21-22 | Adam Sabes
Posted on 2/21/2022, 9:19:21 AM by dynachrome

An Oklahoma Democratic congressional candidate is under fire for allegedly verbally attacking several pre-teen girls while at the home of a friend who was hosting a sleepover with multiple middle school girls present.

Abby Broyles, a candidate for Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District, went to the friend’s house on Feb. 11 and became more and more aggressive as she continued to drink wine throughout the night, according to NonDoc.com.

The report states that Broyles insulted the girls attending the sleepover after becoming intoxicated, according to multiple people interviewed by the news outlet, who said she allegedly said one girl was an “acne f–ker,” and hurled multiple insults at other young girls as well.

“Hispanic f–ker,” she allegedly said to one girl, and “judgy f–ker” to another.

One of the young girls left the room in tears after being insulted by Broyles, according to the report.

Broyles also allegedly vomited into a laundry basket as well as a girl’s shoe, according to the report.

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #68 on: February 23, 2022, 05:38:44 AM »

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #69 on: February 23, 2022, 03:56:15 PM »
Emerson: GOP now get a majority and +9 in generic congressional ballot
ED MORRISSEY Feb 22, 2022
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/02/22/emerson-gop-now-get-a-majority-and-9-in-generic-congressional-ballot-n450261

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #70 on: February 24, 2022, 08:26:41 AM »

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #71 on: February 24, 2022, 01:38:13 PM »
wait till the US purposely gets involved in the conflict to escalate WWIII and then postpone elections so dems stay in power forever!!!


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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #72 on: February 24, 2022, 05:51:32 PM »
US House candidate allegedly went on drunken tirade, vomited at pre-teen sleepover (guess which party)
NY Post ^ | 2-21-22 | Adam Sabes
Posted on 2/21/2022, 9:19:21 AM by dynachrome

An Oklahoma Democratic congressional candidate is under fire for allegedly verbally attacking several pre-teen girls while at the home of a friend who was hosting a sleepover with multiple middle school girls present.

Abby Broyles, a candidate for Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District, went to the friend’s house on Feb. 11 and became more and more aggressive as she continued to drink wine throughout the night, according to NonDoc.com.

The report states that Broyles insulted the girls attending the sleepover after becoming intoxicated, according to multiple people interviewed by the news outlet, who said she allegedly said one girl was an “acne f–ker,” and hurled multiple insults at other young girls as well.

“Hispanic f–ker,” she allegedly said to one girl, and “judgy f–ker” to another.

One of the young girls left the room in tears after being insulted by Broyles, according to the report.

Broyles also allegedly vomited into a laundry basket as well as a girl’s shoe, according to the report.

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Man that’s fucked.

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #73 on: March 02, 2022, 12:28:09 PM »

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Re: 2022 Midterm Elections
« Reply #74 on: March 02, 2022, 12:46:59 PM »
ROFL @ Voting