Wave? What wave? Where? I don’t see no stinkin’ red wave. It appears the pollsters decided they’d been undercounting Republicans so they overcompensated this time and overcounted us.
We Republicans had the midterm advantage, a opposition party president with crapola approval ratings, a miserable economy. We were even talking about the issues voters said they cared about, when the opposition wasn’t, even that seemed not to matter.
We spent tens of millions, they spent tens of millions, and all we got was this miserable draw. It is entirely possible we won’t know for sure until Georgia holds a runoff election next month, because it appears neither Warnock nor Walker broke 50%.
At 11 p.m local time Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy predicted the GOP will eke out a bare majority in the House. I guess he experiences that as a victory, if so it is a very mild, muted one.
If McCarthy can hold his gang together they will be able to stymie Biden’s agenda. That truly is worth doing, but as ‘meals’ go, it is pretty thin gruel, a very watery soup. I’ll have further reaction after I’ve had a chance to sleep on it.
