Americans: What impact did the SC decision to overturn Roe Vs Wade impact the mid-terms?
I'm interested.
41-45, M
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anythingoes477 · M
About 39% of the time...no matter how good of a prez is in...or how much the people like him............histrionically the Senate and House or both flips ownership at the midterms. So it would be impossible to point to any one thing for why a shift actually occurs. Nearly 40% of the time in history things have flipped literally for no reason. It did for Obama...and it did for Trump....etc. So to nail down any one thing....like R vs W to explain things would be a shot in the dark. The best history shows us is that the public is NEVER satisfied with who is in office for longer than 2 years at a time before they change their minds.
justanothername · 51-55, M
@anythingoes477 Normally I’d agree with you but usually mid terms don’t really rate a mention in the news. How ever throw in some recent defining events and millions of Americans get fired up enough to have their say.
Had it not been for the Trumpster stirring the pot this mid term could have just as easily been a boring garden variety campaign.
Had it not been for the Trumpster stirring the pot this mid term could have just as easily been a boring garden variety campaign.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@justanothername [quote]usually mid terms don’t really rate a mention in the news. How ever throw in some recent defining events and millions of Americans get fired up enough to have their say[/quote] I think this is the most significant factor: usually the midterms have an even lighter voter turnout than most U.S. elections, so it becomes the current economy and buyer's regret because the honeymoon with the new President is over. But just as the chaos of Trump's term in office -- not voter fraud -- led to the largest turnout in history for the 2020 Presidential election, all the crazy antics stirred up by the MAGA crowd focused attention on the midterms and led to extremely large midterm voter turnout. Abortion was a major part of this, but not the sole factor with all the election denial and culture war silliness being thrown about.