Welcome to this week’s edition of “Stuff You Should Consume” — a weekly compilation of interesting political content for Message Box readers “Republicans Did Not Read the Room” by Michelle Goldberg, New York Times It will take a while to sort out exactly why Republicans did so much worse than expected. Maybe people care more about the integrity of our democracy than the pundits give them credit for. Maybe they were turned off by Republicans cackling over the assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband. But there seems little question that abortion was a big part of the story.
Hi Dan, so Sunday afternoon, I listened to the BBC news on my local npr station. Interviewed was a guy who represented some organization of overseas republicans, who noted how savvy the dems wore that they in essence, used the abortion issue to get all the women folk out to vote.... it was insulting to me as a democrat and as a person with female parts, like wtf....is that all you think this election was about? Talk about not reading the room.... I am so grateful I listened to you when on the pod you said don't listen to the polls! That was the smartest thing I did...didn't doom scroll didn't lament, didn't hide in the closet eating Kit Kats! I got busy. Made all the difference in the world!
I'll die on this hill: Beto is ticket cancer. He is a professional campaigner who only runs when he knows he can't win. In the process he sucks national $$ away from more competitive races. Please, just stick to activism from now on...
I went into the midterms afraid that the U.S. electorate really was convinced that voting Republican would fix inflation and "democracy" is just a nine-letter word for "fantasy." I'm relieved that my worst fears were not realized. I'm thrilled that enough U.S. voters have learned what secretaries of state do in most states and they proceeded to shut Trumpian election-deniers out of that office. But my favorite takeaway so far is that in AZ incumbent secretary of state Kimberly Yee (R), whom Trump did not endorse, won her election by more than 235K votes while the other Trump-endorsed Republicans running statewide all lost. Can't wait to hear how Kari Lake finesses this in her claims of election fraud. (Something similar seems to have happened in GA: a couple hundred thousand Kemp voters did not vote for Walker. I've also heard a couple of anecdotal reports from Republicans who voted for Walker because they were voting anyway but do not plan to show up at the runoff just to vote for him.)
Hi Dan, so Sunday afternoon, I listened to the BBC news on my local npr station. Interviewed was a guy who represented some organization of overseas republicans, who noted how savvy the dems wore that they in essence, used the abortion issue to get all the women folk out to vote.... it was insulting to me as a democrat and as a person with female parts, like wtf....is that all you think this election was about? Talk about not reading the room.... I am so grateful I listened to you when on the pod you said don't listen to the polls! That was the smartest thing I did...didn't doom scroll didn't lament, didn't hide in the closet eating Kit Kats! I got busy. Made all the difference in the world!
I'll die on this hill: Beto is ticket cancer. He is a professional campaigner who only runs when he knows he can't win. In the process he sucks national $$ away from more competitive races. Please, just stick to activism from now on...
I went into the midterms afraid that the U.S. electorate really was convinced that voting Republican would fix inflation and "democracy" is just a nine-letter word for "fantasy." I'm relieved that my worst fears were not realized. I'm thrilled that enough U.S. voters have learned what secretaries of state do in most states and they proceeded to shut Trumpian election-deniers out of that office. But my favorite takeaway so far is that in AZ incumbent secretary of state Kimberly Yee (R), whom Trump did not endorse, won her election by more than 235K votes while the other Trump-endorsed Republicans running statewide all lost. Can't wait to hear how Kari Lake finesses this in her claims of election fraud. (Something similar seems to have happened in GA: a couple hundred thousand Kemp voters did not vote for Walker. I've also heard a couple of anecdotal reports from Republicans who voted for Walker because they were voting anyway but do not plan to show up at the runoff just to vote for him.)