Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in the midterm elections at a polling station in Kissimmee, Florida on Nov. 8, 2022.Democrats pushed back against historic trends in the 2022 midterms, overcoming broadly negative economic attitudes and Joe Biden’s unpopularity to hold more seats than typical in the face of such headwinds.
Election workers process absentee ballots cast in the U.S. midterm election, at Huntington Place in Detroit, Nov. 8, 2022.All those typically produce deep losses for the party in power. Yet the Democrats bucked the trend. Even with several Senate seats and House control unsettled in the wee hours, it was clear they’d dodged the level of damage usually associated with this extent of discontent.
On another front, days before his pending announcement of another run for the White House, rejection of Trump was as broad as it was of Biden: 58% saw Trump unfavorably, with 56% feeling the same of Biden. While 93% of Democrats said Biden was legitimately elected, so did 64% of independents, while only 28% of Republicans felt this. And among independents who accepted Biden as legitimate, 68% voted Democratic for House -- another result that helped stanch the party’s potential losses.With no winner Wednesday morning, exit poll results were full of reasons why the Arizona gubernatorial race was so close.
The winner on the gubernatorial side, incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp, improved over his 2018 matchup with Democrat Stacey Abrams by shoring up support among key Republican groups, including conservatives , rural and small city residents and evangelical white Christians . Independents also were a factor, voting 49-48%, Kemp-Abrams; they went 54-44%, Abrams-Kemp, in 2018.
Hassan prevailed with support from moderates. She won by 27 points among this group, far outpacing her 6-point advantage among moderates in 2016. Further, abortion looked critical: 35% of voters identified it as the top issue in their vote, and Hassan won this group by 73 points with only 36% picking inflation as their top issue, but Republican challenger Don Bolduc won them by less of a margin, 42 points.
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KUnleashed2020 Is it possible that the same polls that were grossly wrong about the red wave because of Joe Biden’s unpopularity are also wrong about Joe Biden being unpopular?
Dominion FTW!
'We are stupid and don't know what we are talking about'
Thanks to the Help of DNC propagandist like ABC and brainwashed voters
This younger generation is not your fathers generation. Republicans can't fool this new generation like did their grandparents.
What’s going on people?
The woke stuff helps the right, but maybe voters are a tiny bit smarter than I thought and they recognize that Republicans cannot govern well, and maybe even threaten democracy. Not to mention the abortion issue, which hurt the GOP
We got enough, for now. Not bad for the situation.
a RedDrop … no wave ….
The years-long continuous Hanoi Hannah campaign has worked well
Republicans need to understand - it’s time to accept books about gay sex in elementary schools and paying $6 for gas. That’s what america wants
Democrats are losing the House so there really is nothing to celebrate for Democrats who’s dreams were to pack the court to get back Roe v Wade.. if the agenda for the Dems was abortion.. that was en epic fail
Republicans are crazy extremists, and have no solutions for inflation, or anything.
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