Election 2022 Issues

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Second Largest Turnout Of Young People Voted In Midterms In Thirty Years​

Young voters came out to vote in this year’s midterm elections in the second largest percentage in at least thirty years.

The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University released an early estimate showing that around 27% of people ages 18 to 29 voted in 2022. They also believe the number of young people voting was even greater in some states that had major elections.

Around 20% of young people typically came out to vote in elections since the 1990s, but in 2018, that changed. Four years ago, around 31% of eligible young voters in that age range voted.

According to NPR, deputy director of CIRCLE Abby Kiesa said Thursday that 2018 is still “a high-water mark” for young people voting in midterm elections going to back to at least the 1970s.

 

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Such was not to be. PJ Media’s Robert Spencer reported the reason for the inexplicable veer to the left was the activation of the know-nothing Gen-Z-ers. He reported that one political bean counter, Della Volpe, tweeted, “One thing I know already. If not for voters under 30 … tonight WOULD have been a Red Wave.”

Ah, yes, the children who just emerged from the thrall of the institutions taken over by the Left were the difference makers. What was that Lenin prediction again? Oh, yeah, something like “give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.” He also said, “The goal of Socialism is Communism,” but you’ll be called a conspiracy theorist if you say that out loud.


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In a fit of nihilistic pique, California voters approved an abortion measure that allows people to kill their child up to the day of birth. You read that right.

Boy, they sure showed that Supreme Court, huh? And, of course, the vote on Tuesday has the force of law because, unlike the constitutional, God-given guarantee to self-defense by bearing arms, the Supreme Court sent abortion decisions back to the states where people can vote when they’d like to kill babies.

The California Family Council calls the outcome nothing short of “disastrous.”

Through a deceptive and opaque crusade, the Yes on Proposition 1 campaign refused to acknowledge the deadly nature of their amendment. Abortionists will now be able to snuff out the lives of precious unborn children, up until the moment of birth.
Tuesday’s vote deals a severe blow to California. The specter of Proposition 1 will haunt our state for years to come. What does this mean for those of us working to defend life in the womb?
Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost at Houston Baptist University said this about losing elections:
“Losing an election means conservative ideas are unpopular, not wrong. If they are correct, then we must persuade and argue, not give in.”
And our friend Jay Watts at Life Training Institute had a similar message:
“Last night we learned that ideas that many of us believe are bad for America have taken root. Keep fighting those ideas and win people.”

Nobody said the state-by-state battles would be easy, but this outcome is unspeakably cruel and evil.

Until the next West Coast, Messed Coast™ update.

West Coast, Messed Coast™ 2022 Midterm Election Edition: California Does the Unthinkable

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Blake was an atrocious candidate. Who do you put against an astronaut? Not an android.

 

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Big Picture, 2022 Midterm Elections Highlight the Distinct Difference Between Ballots and Votes​

The effort to attain votes for candidates is less important than the strategy of collecting ballots.

It should be emphasized; these are two distinctly different election systems.

The system of ballot distribution and collection is far more susceptible to control than the traditional system of votes cast at precincts.

A vote cannot be cast by a person who is no longer alive, or no longer lives in the area. However, a ballot can be sent, completed and returned regardless of the status of the initially attributed and/or registered individual.

While ballots and votes originate in two totally different processes, the end result of both “ballots” and “votes,” weighing on the presented election outcome, is identical.

While initially the ballot form of election control was tested in Deep Blue states, through the process of mail-in returns under the guise and justification of “expanding democracy,” a useful tool for those who are vested in the distinction, I think we are now starting to see what happens on a national level when the process is expanded.

The controversial 2020 election showed the result of making ‘ballots’ the strategy for electoral success. Under the justification of COVID-19 mitigation, mail-in ballots took center stage. Ballot harvesting by Democrat operations was one term for the outcome.

 

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Democrats have mastered mail balloting. Republicans will pay if they fail to step up​

“The biggest takeaway from Tuesday night is that Republican attitudes in regard to mail-in voting needs to change," he continued. "Right now, it’s like we’re running a 100-yard race against the Democrats and giving them a 45-yard head start. Both parties have limited resources, but while they work during the 50 days of early voting collecting and banking early votes ... we’re just collecting promises to show up on Election Day; it’s not sustainable, and Democrats get better at it every cycle."

When all the dust is settled, it will be interesting to see what the percentage of mail-in votes for Democrats was in the final count; anything over 40% is a real problem for Republicans going forward if they don’t right their mail-in ballot ship.

Before the pandemic, Pennsylvania voters needed a valid excuse to cast an absentee ballot. Act 77, which was signed on Oct. 31, 2019, and went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, added no-excuse mail-in voting up to 50 days before an election.

It also changed how these ballots are canvassed, moving from the individual precincts or polls to a central canvassing facility.

In this state, no one really thought it would be a big deal. Most of the people who used absentee balloting were bedridden or traveling out of state on Election Day. Then the pandemic hit.

Although states such as Arizona and Oregon had been voting by mail forever — and for the most part, they did it quite well — then-President Donald Trump scoffed at it for his voters. While Democrats encouraged their voters to cast their ballots by mail, Trump discouraged it, warning that it was a vessel for voter fraud. That gave Democrats the advantage.

 

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After Epic Failure, Growing Chorus Of Senators Signals It’s Time For McConnell To Go​

Updated Nov. 11.

After Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sabotaged Republicans in the 2022 midterms — pulling spending from competitive GOP candidates such as Blake Masters and even actively spending money against state GOP-endorsed candidates like Alaska’s Kelly Tshibaka — a growing chorus of Republicans is signaling it’s time for McConnell’s tenure in Senate leadership to end.

Here are all the Republican senators and senators-elect who have so far indicated McConnell needs to go

Josh Hawley​

In an interview with RealClearPolitics on Friday, Hawley blamed McConnell and “Washington Republicanism” for Republicans’ lack of a clear midterm strategy. “I’m not going to support the current leadership in the party,” he reiterated. Hawley also slammed McConnell for caving to Democrats’ demands on a gun control bill and a climate spending wishlist “billed as infrastructure,” and for abandoning Republicans in key midterm races.

Ron Johnson​

Johnson was calling GOP leadership into question before signing onto the letter with Lee and Scott. In an op-ed published the day after the election in The Wall Street Journal, the newly reelected Wisconsin senator fueled speculation that he would support a challenge to McConnell’s leadership. “Rank-and-file members should vote only for leaders who commit to passing a budget that drives a fiscally conservative appropriation process,” he wrote, after McConnell supported Democrats’ bloated “infrastructure” bill and pushed for spending even more of Americans’ tax dollars on Ukraine.

“We simply can’t let that happen,” Johnson concluded of “Republicans return[ing] to business as usual.”

 

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PBS Hails Election As Win For Abortion, Defeat Of Putin, Xi, And Trump​

After being asked by Woodruff what voters were saying on Tuesday, Capehart replied, “Simple message. Voters are trying to say, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. We are more nuanced than you give us credit for. Yes, the economy is bad. We're not happy about it. But we're also not happy about the potential of a national abortion ban.”

Capehart does not view his job on this panel to inform viewers, but to scare them. There was never a nationwide abortion ban on the table, only Sen. Lindsey Graham’s 15-week ban which Democrats and Capehart cynically portrayed as a total ban.

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Brooks replied, “Yeah, and I — over the last, I don't know how long, 10 years, we have seen a rise of global populism, both across Europe, I think in the form of Vladimir Putin and maybe Xi Jinping, and in this country in the form of Donald Trump. And I think what we have saw Tuesday night was the emergence of an anti-authoritarian populism majority.”

There is so much wrong there it can be difficult to know where to begin. Putin and Xi aren’t populists, they’re elites who kill and who, unlike Trump, do not face real elections. If Brooks meant populists who have affinity for those two, he ignores that despite warnings about new populist-conservative coalition governments in Italy and Sweden, both have continued or even increased aid to Ukraine, while Trump was the first president to give them lethal aid.

 

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Second Largest Turnout Of Young People Voted In Midterms In Thirty Years​

Young voters came out to vote in this year’s midterm elections in the second largest percentage in at least thirty years.

The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University released an early estimate showing that around 27% of people ages 18 to 29 voted in 2022. They also believe the number of young people voting was even greater in some states that had major elections.

Around 20% of young people typically came out to vote in elections since the 1990s, but in 2018, that changed. Four years ago, around 31% of eligible young voters in that age range voted.

According to NPR, deputy director of CIRCLE Abby Kiesa said Thursday that 2018 is still “a high-water mark” for young people voting in midterm elections going to back to at least the 1970s.

Loan forgiveness and over 2 yrs of no loan payments buys votes. Now let's see if the no loan payments is extended into next year.

 

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The battle over a 100% hand count in Arizona pulls back the mask​

Some day, perhaps even sometime this year if we’re lucky, when election officials in Arizona finally find someone capable of mastering preschool mathematics and they finish counting their ballots, we may know the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections. But that day is not today, my friends. They are somehow still flummoxed by the task of gathering up hundreds of thousands of ballots and feeding them into machines of dubious efficacy. Meanwhile, a different set of election supervisors appears to be ready to move forward with a hand count of nearly all of the ballots. Those officials are facing threats from state Democrats, however. The liberals have gone to court and obtained an order to forbid any such action, though the ruling seems to defy the state’s election laws. But even under the ominous threat of criminal charges, the group of election “radicals” appears to be ready to start the count as early as this weekend. (Associated Press)

The board of supervisors in a southern Arizona county will meet next week to consider counting nearly all the ballots cast in-person on Election Day, despite an earlier court order limiting the hand-count driven by unfounded distrust in machines that tabulate votes.
The actual count may start before Tuesday’s planned meeting of the Cochise County board, and the local prosecutor is warning starting it at any time may lead to criminal charges.
The moves come just days after a judge ruled that state law bars expanding the normal small hand-count audit of early ballots. He also ruled that a 100% hand-count of Election Day ballots is illegal because any expansion for precincts chosen for those reviews must be picked at random.

The details of the election law in question make it unclear how this judge’s ruling could withstand a challenge. The normal process typically only involves a handful of precincts undergoing a hand count. But that’s by tradition, not by law. The law only says that the precincts subjected to a hand count must be selected “at random.” The judge’s order even admits that the number could be increased.

 

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These Counties Experiencing Election Issues Have One Thing In Common​

Mayhem erupted in Arizona's key Maricopa County, the country's second-largest voting jurisdiction, where ballots were being "misread" at a number of precincts. At one point in the day, tabulators in 20% of the county's polling locations weren't working properly, according to a video statement by Maricopa County election officials. Not-yet-tabulated ballots were to be kept in a "secure box" for tabulation in the evening at "Central Count," the county's Board of Supervisors chairman Bill Gates instructed.

After multiple printers were not producing dark-enough timing marks on ballots, the elections department that afternoon announced they'd identified a simple solution for the equipment malfunctioning at 60 voting centers: changing the printer settings.





Farther south in Pima County, election staff cited "a technology issue" that temporarily caused one voting center to be down temporarily.

GOP lawyer Harmeet Dhillon pointed out that Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, who has "she/her" pronouns and "dismantling white supremacy" in her Twitter bio, is "even more political and less cooperative than Maricopa." Both counties are "slow-walking results, hoping to outlast our legal and other observers," Dhillon tweeted Thursday. "Ain't gonna happen!"






Let's also remember that Katie Hobbs, the Democrat nominee in the hotly contested Grand Canyon State's gubernatorial race, happens to be Arizona's secretary of state. Yet, she has refused to recuse herself from official midterm duties overseeing and certifying election results while running against GOP darling Kari Lake. But don't pay attention to the Democrat behind the curtain.

 

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About the GOP Winning That Popular Vote in the House Races​

What’s getting lost is that — at least as of this moment — Republicans have picked up more of the popular vote, by a pretty fair amount, although that might close some when the rest of the West comes in.





This was a possibility that Nate Cohn talked about in October, with the Democrats holding onto more seats than one might think in such a midterm year.

As the folks from RealClearPolitics explain:












So that might be the way to reconcile some of the polls: inefficient vote distribution, the red areas got redder and Republicans picked up black and Latino votes, but in areas that didn’t flip races.

But some of the other things don’t make sense to me.




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This flies in the face of what I already said about the independents breaking to the GOP.


https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1591811693147226114

 

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Dozens of Arizona Republican Voters Describe How Ballots Were Not Counted, Ballots Were Tossed in a Box, and People Were Not Allowed in to Vote​

On Sunday night The Gateway Pundit published exclusive video of Maricopa County voters describing their nightmare at the polls on Election Day.

These men and women who stepped forward tell how they were forced to stand in lines for hours and told to toss their ballot into a box or “Door 3.” They also describe how the doors were shut and people not allowed in during the process.

County officials knew Republican voters would turn out in strength on Election Day — AND THEY DID. Then this happened.

Here are their testimonials.

 

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The Modern Electioneering Process of “Ballot Submission Assistance” is Taking Center Stage​

If CTH had a small part in helping people to reset their reference points around modern electioneering, well, that’s a good thing.

The difference between “ballots” and “votes” is previously explained {SEE HERE} and absolutely critical to understand before moving forward.

Thankfully a large percentage of conservatives, intellectually honest independents and even some establishment republican donors have read our research and are now starting to have the ‘votes‘ vs ‘ballots‘ conversation. That understanding is critical, because any conversation that does not accurately identify and accept the problem is futile.

Having said that, please do not think we are smarter than the RNC. We are not. Miss this point and you miss the next ‘ah-ha‘ moment.

The RNC club knew exactly what the DNC club were doing in their 2022 midterm “ballot submission assistance” program. Yes, that’s exactly what “ballot harvesting” is called now. “Ballot Harvesting” is illegal in many states, “Ballot Submission Assistance” is not.

Progressive political activists in the state of Arizona are now scrubbing the footprints of their ballot submission assistance programs. Wait, Arizona(?) you say. Yes, Arizona a state where “ballot harvesting” is illegal, but email, fax, online and in person drop-off is possible. Ballot assistance is essentially the same harvesting process but in a smaller and more individualized scale

 

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GOP Leadership Faces EXPULSION, Dems Winning MAGA Country District PROVES Dirty Democrat Tactics​

 

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Red wave after all? GOP winning popular vote by wide margin despite incongruous results​

Specifically, GOP candidates have so far received 50,672,592 votes, or 52.3% of the total ballots cast as of this writing. Democrat candidates, by comparison, have so far received 44,802,597 votes, or 46.2% of the total.

These figures come from Cook's 2022 National House Vote Tracker, which is being updated as states continue counting ballots.

This support for the GOP appears to fit with what pre-election polling data had suggested heading into Election Day. Several Republican candidates nationwide, including those running for the Senate and governors' mansions, had been rising in the polls in the last couple months, indicating positive momentum for Republicans.

Polling also found that the economy (particularly inflation) and crime were the top two issues for voters and that voters trusted Republicans more than Democrats to handle each issue.

President Biden's approval rating was also on average in the low 40s heading into Election Day, while other polling showed about 70%-80% of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track — both strong indicators historically that the party in control of the White House would lose a significant number of seats in the midterms.

 

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GOP Leadership Faces EXPULSION, Dems Winning MAGA Country District PROVES Dirty Democrat Tactics​

Tim doesn't know the party breakdown of MoCo.

 

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Tim doesn't know the party breakdown of MoCo.

MoCo ... he was talking your stomping ground

 

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