26 Nov 2022 6:50 pm
Okay, so I've been sitting on about a hundred stories for nearly five days now, having decided to take an extended holiday turkey-coma break from the usual madness, and **** news I post about.
Besides, it's been a (relatively) slow news week, though I must say it's been a joy to click on my newsfeeds and find sports and Black Friday as headliners rather than usual reich winged venom and hate that America has been falling prey to since the coming of Trump and his MAGAS. (And maybe the midterms had something to do with that as well).
So guess I'll drop these developments that I've been holding onto, seeing as how I'm absolutely certain that more of the same is just around the corner.
IN THE NEWS:
Happy with the election results? You can thank this group of voters who stopped the ‘red wave’ - Marketwatch
It wasn’t high turnout by younger, liberal voters that stopped the Republican “red wave” in the midterm elections. It was a huge swing away from the GOP among senior citizens in the battleground races.
The swing was big among men over 65, and huge among women.
So reports a remarkable new poll that focused on the most competitive Congressional races in the country. It was conducted on behalf of the AARP jointly by Democratic polling company Impact Research and Republican pollsters Fabrizio Ward.
“What we found here is exactly the opposite of what the national exit polls found,” said Tony Fabrizio. “The national exit polls found that…that it was 18-34 year olds that came to the rescue, nationally (for) the Democrats.”
But in the battleground races, from July to the election, “the big flip that occurred here was seniors. And senior women drove that flip. The 65-year-old voters…went from favoring the Republicans by 10 to favoring Democrats by 3.”
Among men over 65, the Republican lead halved, the poll data showed.
But among women over 65 the swing was even more dramatic. In July, the Republicans led this group by 2 points. In the election, at least in the competitive races, AARP polling says they lost female senior citizens by 14 points.
And the over 65s made up a third of the voters in these races, Fabrizio said: “Senior citizens certainly made the difference.”
There were multiple factors to explain the swing, the pollsters say.
A big one (or two): Social Security and Medicare.
...and now you know why I kept talking about Social Security and Medicare.
MEANWHILE:
First Asian American and Black woman judge appointed to Nevada Supreme Court -Yahoo
"I'm Done!" White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shuts down disorderly New York Post reporter for shouting questions at Dr. Fauci
Besides, it's been a (relatively) slow news week, though I must say it's been a joy to click on my newsfeeds and find sports and Black Friday as headliners rather than usual reich winged venom and hate that America has been falling prey to since the coming of Trump and his MAGAS. (And maybe the midterms had something to do with that as well).
So guess I'll drop these developments that I've been holding onto, seeing as how I'm absolutely certain that more of the same is just around the corner.
IN THE NEWS:
Happy with the election results? You can thank this group of voters who stopped the ‘red wave’ - Marketwatch
It wasn’t high turnout by younger, liberal voters that stopped the Republican “red wave” in the midterm elections. It was a huge swing away from the GOP among senior citizens in the battleground races.
The swing was big among men over 65, and huge among women.
So reports a remarkable new poll that focused on the most competitive Congressional races in the country. It was conducted on behalf of the AARP jointly by Democratic polling company Impact Research and Republican pollsters Fabrizio Ward.
“What we found here is exactly the opposite of what the national exit polls found,” said Tony Fabrizio. “The national exit polls found that…that it was 18-34 year olds that came to the rescue, nationally (for) the Democrats.”
But in the battleground races, from July to the election, “the big flip that occurred here was seniors. And senior women drove that flip. The 65-year-old voters…went from favoring the Republicans by 10 to favoring Democrats by 3.”
Among men over 65, the Republican lead halved, the poll data showed.
But among women over 65 the swing was even more dramatic. In July, the Republicans led this group by 2 points. In the election, at least in the competitive races, AARP polling says they lost female senior citizens by 14 points.
And the over 65s made up a third of the voters in these races, Fabrizio said: “Senior citizens certainly made the difference.”
There were multiple factors to explain the swing, the pollsters say.
A big one (or two): Social Security and Medicare.
...and now you know why I kept talking about Social Security and Medicare.
MEANWHILE:
First Asian American and Black woman judge appointed to Nevada Supreme Court -Yahoo
"I'm Done!" White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shuts down disorderly New York Post reporter for shouting questions at Dr. Fauci