Assume that the Democrats lose the House as most of the analyses suggest. Who will be blamed?
- Putin
- Biden
- Trump
- Pelosi
- the Federal Reserve
- COVID-19
- the voters
- All of the above
I’m guessing H, followed by D, followed by B.
Assume that the Democrats lose the House as most of the analyses suggest. Who will be blamed?
I’m guessing H, followed by D, followed by B.
Its G. since voters are the deciders in every election contest. I’m fairly sure C will be second since everyone is obsessed with Trump; even if the line is silly like Democrats spent too much time and energy on Trump.
Here are some other ones.
American Rescue Act (too ambitious)
Inflation reduction Act (not ambitious enough)
Build Back Better
Big Oil
Supreme Court
Joe Manchin
I doubt Pelosi, she’s survived losing the House before, and by much bigger margins.
I think it depends on who you ask. You could probably add Joe Manchin to the list. And not just people, I’m sure G will be a part of it, but probably in the context of GoP “misinformation.”
There will also be rationalization – that this always happens in this kind of mid-term, so the argument could be that it was actually a win because losses perhaps not as bad as they could have been or historically have been.
I live in a new Democrat-gerrymandered Congressional district, which Cook has as a +3D; it’s a scrawny worm connecting the St. Louis metro to Springfield, Decatur and Champaign. It’s also 32% minority.
The Democrat is a lifetime political apparatchik who only lived in the district when she attended college in Champaign. She’s worked for Biden and Pritzker. As far as I can tell, there are three legs to her campaign:
1) Crime. She promises to block any attempt to defund the police.
2) Jobs/economy. Seeing a lot of an ad of her talking with a white steelworker about rebuilding the middle class and getting inflation under control.
3) Abortion. Accuses her opponent of wanting to bring Missouri abortion bans to Illinois.
Otherwise, I’ve observed a lot of issue avoidance. She supports commonsense, bipartisan laws like the gun bill passed this year. She wants military weapons off the street but won’t say she supports an assault weapons ban, she clearly is deliberately avoiding using the term “assault weapons.”
If she loses, it will be because Biden and Congressional Democrats failed to anticipate the inflation issues coming out of the Pandemic and failed reign in the Left end of the party. Or maybe, Governor Pritzker would be to blame for not selecting someone who lives in the district.
Compare where we were at in 11/2020 —- inflation, country’s optimism, economic growth trend, energy policy, foreign wars, border management —- and where we are today. We have gone so far south in every category —-inflation thru the roof, country felt to be going in the wrong direction, no economic growth and technically in an economic recession, groveling for energy means, depleting our strategic oil reserves, depleting our own armaments and sending them to the war initiated in Ukraine, and unrestrained insurgence of illegal crossings at the border.
In business the buck (responsibility) stops at the desk of the boss. The boss (president) of this country is Biden and all his like-minded advisors. So, B is the clear answer to the above question. The damage done to this country by the Biden Administration is incalculable and long term!
Truss has resigned as PM, but will stay until the Tories find another.
I think the bigger picture is that every government in the West, all of the EU and all of the Anglosphere have unstable governments right now. The governments are also completely filled with delusional, irrational people pursuing policies that will wreck their economies and might well bring on WW III.
How did this happen? Or more, precisely, how did it happen simultaneously everywhere. It also seems to be limited to the WEIRD governments.
B. We arent having the massive job losses and GDP decrease like we did with Trump but people were hoping for better. Trump was one of our worst presidents on debt and there is some chance Biden could match that. OTOH he has managed the Russians and Ukraine pretty well.
Steve