2026 Mid-Term Elections

[Ford]

Trump might get Congress to pass legislation forbidding the use of Arabic numerals and make America use Roman Numbers instead!

Roman numbers? Did JFKs capitulation to the Pope teach us nothing?

That's not gonna work either. Turns out this new Chicago Pope is pretty damned (relatively) liberal too, touring South America and paying homage to that "radical leftist" Pope Francis on his home turf. I even heard that even Sean Hannity has stated that he's no longer Catholic because the Vatican is just too damned liberal.

 

[southernhybrid]

Mississippi has a new Senator and he's a Democrat and the first Black one since Reconstruction. Right on Mississippi! It was announced yesterday evening around 6 PM EST. But, I couldn't access this site, and I assume most of you couldn't either.

 

[southernhybrid]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/...e_code=1.P1E.WHpe.7HN133rtKyJB&smid=url-share

The last Black man to represent Mississippi in the Senate was born into slavery and left office in 1881.

Nearly a century and a half later, Scott Colom, a Democrat, defeated Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, Republican of Mississippi, according to The Associated Press, delivering a remarkable upset on Wednesday and becoming the first Black person to be elected to the Senate in his state since the Reconstruction era.

Mr. Colom’s victory, which came by a slim margin after more than a week of ballot tallying following the Nov. 3 election, puts an exclamation point on the sweeping Democratic victories across the country during this year’s midterms. For Republicans, the outcome was a jarring rebuke in a reliably conservative stronghold.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Sen. Warnock helped get the vote out in Mississippi. Worst yet for the GOP, as this should empower the not so minority vote in MS that they can win.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Now the electorate will be looking to the Dems to put a chicken in their pot or turnout will drop in '28. Either that or the Dems had better trump Trump in the blame game over the next two years. Every Trump veto must get a full-throated admonishment on Fox News and *whatever is worse than Fox News.

Good thing Dems have a nice buffer going forward.

2028 Senate areas of vulnerability

- GOP opportunities: Ohio Sherrod Brown, Georgia Raphael Warnock, Pennsylvania John Fetterman, Arizona Mark Kelly, and Nevada Catherine Cortez Masto.

- Republicans must defend Ron Johnson Wisconsin, Ted Budd North Carolina, Chuck Grassley Iowa, Jerry Moran Kansas, Tim Scott South Carolina, and Lisa Murkowski Alaska.



*I don't know. I don't swim in that shit.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

While the Democrats have overstepped their bounds by taking a good deal of red seats, the GOP hopes of clawing back seats relies on the GOP and Donald Trump governing well. This was a vote against the GOP... and the problems the GOP has been complicit in causing would need to be resolved. We've been here before in 2006. Iraq improved after the '06 spanking, but the fact that Iraq was still a thing couldn't fix the electoral liability. Trump needs to get rid of the trade wars, resolve Iran, figure something out on the cost of the debt. The cut taxes and raise the deficit / starve the beast model of economics has hit a threshold.