Tuesday November 8, 2022 is Election Day in the United States of America. In addition to Congressional "midterms" at the federal level, many state governors and other more local offices are up for grabs. Given how things shook out over Election Day 2020, things could get a little crazy.
...or, perhaps, not! But here's the Megathread for if they do. Talk about your local concerns, your national predictions, your suspicions re: election fraud and interference, how you plan to vote, anything election related is welcome here. Culture War thread rules apply, with the addition of Small-Scale Questions and election-related "Bare Links" allowed in this thread only (unfortunately, there will not be a subthread repository due to current technical limitations).
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I guess I'm just reeling and a little confused - I thought that Republicans did a good job raising the salience of woke issues (eg teaching gender/crt to kids, defund the police), and were better on the economy - there's 8% inflation ffs, caused in large part by excessive government spending.
I know that Oz and Walker weren't the best candidates, but did abortion really sink the GOP? DeSantis crushed it - clearly voters don't want their kids to be indoctrinated by teachers into gender ideology - at least in Florida...
I can say from personal experience that the abortion issue did curb a lot of my enthusiasm, and I wound up not voting. I even got a ballot delivered directly to my house and I didn't bother.
Republicans don't seem to know the difference between consolidating power and spending it. I suspect that decades of cultural and religious hegemony robbed them of this knowledge. They will either learn, or perish.
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