BTRTN: Top Ten Midterms Winners and Losers
Born To Run The Numbers just posted its look at the month of November, focusing on the real winners and losers from the mid-terms:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2022/12/btrtn-top-ten-midterms-winners-and.html
Excerpts: "So, here is our Top Ten list of winners and losers, in a year where some entities rightly appear on both lists...
"Joe Biden and the Democrats, the reality... Joe Biden and the Democrats, the perception..."
"The media/pundits. In general, the dominant, if not sole narrative heading into the midterms was the Eve of Democratic Destruction, a slaughter that would result in the loss of the Senate and House, the latter by a loss of 30 to 50 Dems seats. If only the media and the pundits had ignored the midterms’ history and listened to the real winners of the night…the pollsters and the aggregator/predictors."
"The Election Deniers. When the history books are written, the lead paragraph on the 2022 midterms will likely focus on the demise of the Big Lie. The death of the deniers did not come out of some long overdue collective sense of moral outrage among Republicans, but rather, ironically, from the reality of the ballot box itself...pushing the Big Lie was proven to be a losing strategy."
"Donald Trump...was easily the Biggest Loser of the night. The man who said the GOP would get 'tired of winning' under his leadership instead has become synonymous with losing. It was a bad night for Trump not only for his indelible fingerprints on GOP disasters, but also because of the rising star of Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor had a sensational night, the kind of trajectory changing event that ends up filling a chapter in a future presidential biography. DeSantis won by 19 points, a reelection effort that boggles the mind."
"Sean Patrick Maloney and the New York Democrats. The Democrats would have held the House if they’d managed to hold New York plus California’s 13th..."
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