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Stephen Hanks’ 2022 Senate Election Forecast
Mini-Blue Wave in the Making: Dems to Gain Seats in Senate; Say Goodbye Mitch McConnell
If ever there was the perfect example of the competition cliché “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,” then the Republican Party’s strategy and performance leading up to the 2022 midterm Senate elections is it. And those of us who treasure democracy can thank our lucky stars for their political incompetence.
Since the day Joe Biden became the duly elected, legitimate, Electoral College-certified, honest-to-goodness President, the American media — from the mainstream to the EXtreme — has relentlessly reminded the masses how it’s near-to-impossible for the sitting President’s party to gain House or Senate seats in the midterms. And that may have held true again this cycle — until June 24, 2022.
That is the already legendary date when the Federalist Society and Mitch McConnell-manipulated right-wing Supreme Court massively miscalculated and attempted to massacre the freedom of American women to control their own bodies. Less than six weeks later, the women of ultra-conservative Kansas — including a fair number of Republicans — told SCOTUS that they could take their overturning of Roe v. Wade and shove it, voting down a state amendment that would have removed…
