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Re: Us elections - November 20th 2022, 12:12 AM

I'm pretty happy with the results! Normally, the party that is out of power normally has a huge year in the mid-terms, so the media elected Republicans to crush it. But the Dems over-performed the polls in basically every special election since the Dobbs decision, so that was mostly just hype. The US Senate is more important because they can confirm Biden's judges, but a Republican House will just waste the next two years investigating Biden's son. That's just gonna make them look stupid for the next election.

The state level is actually more encouraging if you dislike the Republican party. Election-denying Republicans overwhelmingly lost their major governor and Secretary of State races, so they can't use those offices to steal the 2024 election. Also, the dems didn't lose a single State House or Senate in any state, and even flipped control of the legislatures in Minnesota, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. That's the first time since the 1930s that the sitting president's party didn't lose a single state legislature, and that's a HUGE deal. Also, several state-level constitutional amendments went the Dems way, including legalized weed in two states.

Extremism lost! Hooray!