You say you’re amazed that Pennsylvania Democrats elected physically and mentally impaired John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate? Get a load of this.
Pennsylvania Democrats also elected Anthony “Tony” DeLuca to the state house despite the fact DeLuca had died Oct. 9.
Repeat, dead for a month and still gets put into office by an informed Democratic electorate. We’re making a logical presumption that Republicans didn’t vote the guy into office. And, no, all DeLuca’s votes couldn’t have preceded his death as mail-in ballots.
You put up Adolf Hitler as a Democrat candidate for political office and in all too many states he would be voted in simply because of the letter “D” on the ballot with his name.
Even as the Republicans were failing to deliver the red wave many had expected in these mid-term elections, there were some amusing highlights.
New York’s Sean Patrick Maloney, the man in charge of getting Democrats elected to Congress, lost his House race to Republican Mike Lawler.
This is in the home district of the Clintons and Democratic super money man George Soros. The irony is sweet.
Also, serial Democratic star losers Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams did it again, burning millions of dollars to lose big. How can they remain major players in the party without ever winning an election?
A familiar lowlight was trouble counting ballots. Somehow, France can run elections with nearly 50 million potential voters, paper ballots and still get the results counted promptly. Notably, France banned mail-in ballots in 1975.
Brazil, with about as many voters as the United States, recently ran two efficient national elections. The results in the second, a presidential run-off, were known within hours. HOURS!!!!!
Florida, which beginning in 2000 and running into recent years had been an election joke, now is a model of efficiency. Ron DeSantis got elected governor, fired some inept voting officials, and the state has run smooth elections since.
Meanwhile, incompetents in Nevada and Arizona, dealing with much fewer voters than Florida, are promising results, in Arizona’s case, by Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s by the latest.
There’s a chance Georgia’s Senate runoff election slated for Dec. 6 will have its results known before the final Arizona numbers are reported.
Conspiracy theorists are noting that the ballot-printing problems in Arizona seemed concentrated in conservative precincts. Election deniers, obviously.
But the optimistic among the Republican faithful hold out hope that the governor and Senate races still will be won in Arizona. There is even more optimism that Republican Adam Laxalt will win the Senate race in Nevada.
Although results are not final, most political pundits see the Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives, albeit by a narrow margin.
If the Republican optimists are correct, they also could wrest control of the Senate from the Democrats, who now run things despite a 50-50 tie due to the vote of the vice president being the tiebreaker.
Against this background, it was strange, yet predictable, that Clueless Joe Biden would emerge from his bunker Wednesday to take a victory lap, based on the election not going as badly as Democrats feared it would.
To repeat, based on the likely loss of the House, and the potential loss of the Senate, Biden and friends are claiming victory, threatening to harass political opponents and generally acting like the pompous asses anyone with a brain recognizes them to be.
We live in curious times, indeed.
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