Republicans should have won the Senate easily, but they nominated really bad candidates

[mystery-ak]

Republicans should have won the Senate easily, but they nominated really bad candidates
by Timothy P. Carney, Senior Columnist |
November 09, 2022 06:56 AM

There’s a lot of noise as these midterm results flow in, and a few unsettled races at the moment, but this much is clear: Republicans would control the Senate next year had they stuck to nominating good candidates. Instead, typical of the Tea Party-to-Trump Era, Republicans in many key states nominated people who were patently unfit for office.

It goes back to the Massie Theorem. Rep. Thomas Massie explained the Tea Party after the 2016 election.

"All this time," Massie said, "I thought they were voting for libertarian Republicans. But after some soul-searching, I realized when they voted for Rand and Ron and me in these primaries, they weren't voting for libertarian ideas. They were voting for the craziest son of a b**** in the race. And Donald Trump won best in class.”

Nominating the craziest son of a b**** in the race is not a formula for winning governing majorities.

Here’s the raw math:

Republicans, as of 5 a.m. Wednesday, control 48 seats in the Senate, with four states outstanding. (Technically, Alaska is still outstanding, but it is undecided between two Republican candidates.) Republican Ron Johnson will probably win reelection in Wisconsin. That means the GOP would need to win two of the final three races — outstanding contests in Nevada and Arizona, and a likely runoff in Georgia — to control the Senate. So, the odds are decent that Republicans end up with 49 or 50 seats, which is 1 or 2 seats short of Senate control.

Republicans should have won the Georgia Senate race easily this year. They also should have won Pennsylvania.

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[mystery-ak]

And who chose these candidates...especially when you can't beat a brain dead, incoherent Dem...

[Bigun]

And who chose these candidates...especially when you can't beat a brain dead, incoherent Dem...

Mitch McConnell! AKA Mr. Chao. (He didn't pick them but he sure as hell torpedoed them!)

[Free Vulcan]

Uh, thank Mitch for vastly underfunding any candidate that didn't kiss his ring, even to the point of violating the 11th commandment by funding Democrat endorsing Murkowski over Tshibaka.

The Dems had even more piss poor candidates who denied that inflation and crime even existed. If Americans won't even vote to protect themselves, and would rather feel righteous about things like abortion, then we simply no longer live in the America we knew.

We literally are two countries now.

[mountaineer]

The Pennsylvania primary featured two RINOs, let's face it - Dave McCormick and Mehmet Oz. If I lived there, I would have held my nose and voted for McCormick. I sincerely believe he would have thrashed Fetterlump, and he may have been a little more conservative than Oz in the long run. Oh well.

[Smokin Joe]

Uh, thank Mitch for vastly underfunding any candidate that didn't kiss his ring, even to the point of violating the 11th commandment by funding Democrat endorsing Murkowski over Tshibaka.

The Dems had even more piss poor candidates who denied that inflation and crime even existed. If Americans won't even vote to protect themselves, and would rather feel righteous about things like abortion, then we simply no longer live in the America we knew.

We literally are two countries now.

We have been for forty years now, if not more, it is just becoming more obvious as the Left spins off into the weeds.