Your post is directionally correct, but I'd quibble that you missed an important point: this was a midterm election, which brings out a very different electorate. A portion of the Dem blowout is just an artifact of that, similar to the R blowout in 2010. If everything else was the same but Republicans had retained the more motivated voters like they had in 2010, we likely would have seen something closer to a D+5 -- still a D win, but much less decisive.
Not that I actually mind MAGA getting its comeuppance of course.
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Your post is directionally correct, but I'd quibble that you missed an important point: this was a midterm election, which brings out a very different electorate. A portion of the Dem blowout is just an artifact of that, similar to the R blowout in 2010. If everything else was the same but Republicans had retained the more motivated voters like they had in 2010, we likely would have seen something closer to a D+5 -- still a D win, but much less decisive.
Not that I actually mind MAGA getting its comeuppance of course.
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