Because the media wants everyone to think the Democrats are sunk and that Biden is too old. But noone is fooled.
Polls and news articles keep coming out saying that very thing, but proof keeps showing otherwise. Real voting numbers show the opposite. Democrats are showing increasing support.
Republican PR is working overtime right now, and they have a lot of pull. Don’t fall for the doom and gloom narrative.
Also, don’t ever become apathetic.
I’m tired of seeing “not losing, or losing fewer than is typical” framed as a victory for Democrats.
One side is going full fascist, campaigning on straight hatred and dogwhistles for violence against the “other”. We should be on our way to a Dem (and conservative refuges) super majority by now. The fact that it’s still extremely competitive is fucking depressing.
I hate to disappoint you, but US politics come with a number of intricacies that make it such that “not failing too hard” is a success. The fact is that across the 50 different state election system, the set of seats going to election are different each year without apparent pattern.
Mix in our good fellow Jerry Mandarin to twist the democratic process to your favour, the Democrat party not putting forward campaigns and resources in races they feel they already lost and you are set up for the facist party to take over. If most seats up for grabs are expected to lean conservative, then even small losses can be huge accomplishments (+5 gain nationally it sounds like)
Democrats won five additional legislative seats this year, Bolts calculated in its second annual review of all legislative elections.
That’s a small change, since there were more than 600 seats in play this year. But it goes against the expectation that the party that holds the White House faces trouble in such races. In 2021, the first off-year with President Biden in the White House, the GOP gained 18 new seats out of the roughly 450 seats that were in play, according to Bolts’ calculations.
What’s different since 2021? I’d wager it’s abortion rights
The Republican party wants to end our democracy and turn women into breeding stock with zero rights.
Gee. I wonder why they are losing all of a sudden?
