2026 Elections: To the Midterms and Beyond!

[ScoobyDoo]

The whole Israel, Gaza, Bibi, Trump, AIPAC, America dynamic is so freaking screwed up and without logic or reason right now.

 

[Kepler]

Vance is as spineless and morally deficient as any politician in history.

This is every Republican except Stephen Miller, who is a sincere and principled Nazi.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

This is every Republican except Stephen Miller, who is a sincere and principled Nazi.

Yeah, Miller is legit a kapo. Even hates his own heritage.

 

[Kepler]

Across Germany, France, Canada, Britain, the Emirates, Poland, Ukraine, there is universal joy and relief.

America is on it way to being respect in the world again. We can finish the job in 2028.

 

[MichVandal]

His campaign did the math and he realized he did not need her. More importantly, he did not need the stench of her weird MAGA fiance or the registered foreign agents of Israel who worked on her campaign wafting over his own operation in the final days, potentially giving them access to insider info to use against him.

I just remember a few days ago that thought that Senator Al-Sayed's campaign were wrong, and both sides were wrong. That post turns out to be the wrong one.

 

[Boston_E]

Oh fuck off. I can't speak to how she was 30 years ago, but for the last decade Collins was a partisan hack who only pretended to be a centrist to fool morons like you. She was never the deciding vote against something the GOP wanted, even when she could've been.

So if Turek et al need to be similarly disingenuous, sorry "concerned," to win, they should go for it without the left wailing about it.

I’ll take “things that unofan wouldn’t have the guts to say to my face in person” for $200 Alex.

 

[Boston_E]

Of course that's what happened

If they wanted 'centrism', then Drew's boo would have won.

You are fooling yourself if you think that we won senate seats in Texas, North Carolina, Kansas, etc., ( plus all of those redrawn congressional seats) without winning back the vast majority of the center.

 

[Boston_E]

Sure, sure....

Nice, common-sense centrist positions like:

• People should go to jail for doing illegal things
• Illegal tariffs are illegal
• Illegal wars are illegal
• It is illegal for the Executive branch to divert/not spend funds contrary to Congressional appropriations
• It is illegal for Federal agencies to murder US citizens
• We should defend democracies around the world from attack by authoritarian nations
• We should NOT support states that commit human rights atrocities, whether against their own citizens or others

Just as loss or privilege feels like oppression, Republicans will wail that these policies are radical. They are not. Republicans do not get to define the center, so when they inevitably complain about the radical leftist agenda, the blue Congress should ignore them and run right over their objections with a Mack truck.

If one or two blue members need to wring their hands over these policies to ensure re-election, they are free to Collins it.

Who said anything about Republicans defining the center? Those issues you list (in the effect that some of them had on the economy and cost of living) are by and large, likely exactly the reasons that we won in places like Texas, Kansas etc.

 

[Transplanted Tiger Fan]

Vance is as spineless and morally deficient as any politician in history. He's Aaron Burr. He doesn't stand for anything except what he thinks will get him elected in the moment. He would sell his mother to the devil if it got him more votes.

From Senator-Elect El-Sayed’s victory speech…

“JD… Habibi… there is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.”

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Oh, wow. First the prediction is wrong, but then the person who made the wrong prediction is right on why it was wrong?

Give me a fucking break.

 

[rufus]

Vindman is a very good man, just not much of a candidate. But let's not slag him.

Oh, I totally respect Vindman. My point being that Chuckie recruited him to be the nice, centrist Dem candidate rather than the Democratic Socialist, and he ended up losing the primary to her, cause voters aren't looking for the nice safe go-along to get-along Dem, they want someone who's gonna go to Washington and start kicking some ass.

 

[rufus]

Across Germany, France, Canada, Britain, the Emirates, Poland, Ukraine, there is universal joy and relief.

America is on it way to being respect in the world again. We can finish the job in 2028.

But I don't think we'll ever be trusted completely as a world partner ever again. There will always be suspicion and hesitation.

 

[walrus]

Oh fuck off. I can't speak to how she was 30 years ago, but for the last decade Collins was a partisan hack who only pretended to be a centrist to fool morons like you. She was never the deciding vote against something the GOP wanted, even when she could've been.

So if Turek et al need to be similarly disingenuous, sorry "concerned," to win, they should go for it without the left wailing about it.

Her going partisan hack happened after her marriage in 12. She went off the charts with trump though just like the rest of the republican party.

 

[Slap Shot]

The whole Israel, Gaza, Bibi, Trump, AIPAC, America dynamic is so freaking screwed up and without logic or reason right now.

It's why I'm against Jeffries as Speaker.

 

[rufus]

You are fooling yourself if you think that we won senate seats in Texas, North Carolina, Kansas, etc., ( plus all of those redrawn congressional seats) without winning back the vast majority of the center.

We won back Hispanics, young whites, black men and women, and everyone else that Donnie ended up fucking over. Regardless of their political orientation.

Voters were looking for people who were gonna stand up and fight back against Donnie and his administration. Not reach across the aisle and work with them.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

It's why I'm against Jeffries as Speaker.

Yeah, totally justified.

 

[RaceBoarder]

Now, if we REALLY want to go down the rabbit hole with last night's success...

D's now can pull some weight in a few key purple states where they landed trifectas... Look up the NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE INTERSTATE COMPACT... 270 electoral votes can be distributed to the popular vote winner, making the EC instantly obsolete. Right now, 18 states +DC have signed on to this. If Michigan, Pennsylvania, and two of the three between WI, NV, and NM want to add this with their Dem trifecta, the game may completely change by hitting the 270 vote threshold...

 

[Kepler]

But I don't think we'll ever be trusted completely as a world partner ever again. There will always be suspicion and hesitation.

That's healthy. We proved what we're capable of.

But the entire world realizes how important it is for the Right to be checked, here and in their own country. We see it rising still in Germany, France, Slovakia, Czechia, and Bulgaria, having crested in Italy and the UK, and receded at least for now in Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Brazil, and now the US.

The Right must always be chained. It is useful as an occasional quick charge, but it must not be permitted to set its own agenda or inevitably that is directed towards intolerance, fear, cowardice, reaction and violence.

 

[Stauber1]

I think you are looking at it the wrong way… I don’t think you could look at it as “going Federman“ or “going Collins“

What happened last night is the Democrats took back the center. If they are smart and want to retain those seats in six years (and in two years for Congress) they will govern as such.

So the Dems had "the center" in 2020 and then lost it in 2024? What exactly did the Biden administration or congressional Democrats do that was so "wacky left" that it lost "the center?" Seriously, what specific actions or policy?

I've heard this baloney from a few places now and it's such a BS train of thought. The fact is, the Dems lost in 2024 because of inflation, and the GOP got wrecked in 2026 because of inflation+oil+tariffs.
For the 20-25% of voters who waffle and flip, the only thing that matters is their finances, and they vote pretty much entirely based on who they think is going to help those finances the most. It really is that simple.

If you haven't learned that lesson by now nothing anyone says is going to help you.

 

[Kepler]

For the 20-25% of voters who waffle and flip, the only thing that matters is their finances, and they vote pretty much entirely based on who they think is going to help those finances the most. It really is that simple.

Yeah, politics is:

• 33% are utterly brainwashed to be lifetime Righties by abusive parents
• 33% are horrified by the predations of Righties and try to stop them
• 33% don't care about anything but their personal shit
• 1% are YOLO weirdos