Like I said we can play what if and talk about gerrymandering- as if dems have not done it also, impacting the results. We could also talk about what if roe was not vacated by scotus and you are probably looking at significantly more gains by pubs in the house and control of the senate. We can certainly talk about reasons, expectations, etc. However, it is not a question to whether or not what happened was a win for pubs. There is a scoreboard. Pubs are unquestionably better off than they were before the election. That is simply not debatable.Meh. Most of the gains that pubs made in the house were a result of gerrymandering (not all, mind you). That is even the case in NY, where Cuomo shat the bed with his own redistricting. (the dems attempted their own gerrymandering, Cuomo sent it to a very conservative judge, who instead of sending it back to be redrawn, she appointed another very conservative judge to redraw it, and Cuomo just let it happen. That judge has since been forced to step down)
And let's not forget that Desantis' gerrymandering in FL will likely be overturned by a judge after the election of course.
Trying to stamp what happened in the midterms as a win for pubs? It should be viewed as much more of a wake up call.
I think the wake up call, if you can even call it that, is that trump clearly dragged the party down. Not that this should be some great revelation to anyone other than trump loyalist. I think it is an indictment of trump much more than the overall party. To be fair, until he is gone he is still there and an anchor to the party, to belabor the obvious. I think he had as much(negative) impact with many of his people winning primary races (along with help in many instances from dems running/paying for ads for his candidates) in swing state races in both the senate and house as he did before the final elections took place. If we just had non trump candidates, I think we pick up 2-3 more senate seats at least, but that is more of those what ifs you were talking about and not what is.
Dems gained total control in couple of state legislature, so it will be interesting to see if your view on gerrymandering changes.
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