HAMMER: The red wave did not materialize out of nowhere - it's been building for months. Last November, Republican Glenn Youngkin stunned the nation by capturing the Virginia governorship.
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But how else to explain the fact that as voters consistently tell pollsters they care most about crime, inflation, the economy, and immigration, the Democrats obstinately refuse to abandon their dog-eared playbook of pro-abortion maximalism, 'Orange Man Bad'-style January 6 fearmongering, and trite warnings about the purported threats to 'our democracy' if the opposition party wins a free and fair election.
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White women, who broke for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, voted overwhelmingly for Youngkin.
Comment:
Do you think the Dems will get the message?
I mean check out this completely tone-deaf comment by MSM commentators:
'I can assure you,' declared MSNBC's (now-former) host Tiffany Cross. 'This is about the fact that a good chunk of voters out there are OK with White supremacy. Let's call a thing a thing. Actually, scratch that. They are more than OK.'
There is nothing tone-deaf. It happens to be the truth. Nearly half of the country supports fascism in the United States.
The reason that Youngkin won was because right wing fascists were more energized. In addition, the voter turnout in terms of early voting and mail-in ballots has far exceeded the turnout in 2018. I doubt that these polls are picking that up. No poll saw what happened in deep red Kansas. That a anti-abortion amendment would go down to a crushing defeat.
Three special elections of Republican held House seats were held earlier in the year. Democrats took 2 out of 3 and the turnout was much higher than expected. In the lone seat that Republicans held, a 15 point Trump margin shrank to 4.
In addition, there is this.
"Despite this encouraging data and the potentially major story it tells, there’s been hesitation by pundits to recognize it as a legitimate factor in the midterm elections. It’s what I’ve dubbed the “Hillary effect”: Pollsters and political prognosticators who went full "I'm with her" in 2016 and were mortified when Donald Trump won are afraid to put stock in the ability of women to be the decisive variable in an election. It was seen as embarrassing to be a cheerleader for women — especially one specific, polarizing woman — and in turn, the mostly male, mostly white political forecasting establishment has found itself in the midst of a yearslong, gendered course
Before the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, voters under the age of 25 accounted for 21% of new voter registrants nationally,
according to stats from TargetSmart. But since then, overall their share rose to 26%, and an astounding 31% since the beginning of October. Data from the nonpartisan
Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University confirms the same trends. “The surge in youth registration has been driven by young women,” says Bonier, who was compelled to dig into the voter registration data after the surprising outcomes in the N.Y. 19 special congressional election and the
Kansas state primary over the summer.
On the ballot in Kansas was an amendment to the state Constitution that would
remove language enshrining abortion rights, and the vote was a resounding “no” that crossed party and gender lines. But when Bonier took a closer look at the registration data, a more specific story emerged: He found that 70% of Kansans who registered to vote after the Dobbs decision were women with a median age of 23. And in September, after further analysis, he found the data was predictive of turnout. “In the August vote on abortion rights in Kansas, women under the age of 25 turned out at a higher rate than all men (45% to 43%),” he said.
70% of Kansans who registered to vote after the Dobbs decision were women with a median age of 23."
