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Thoughts on the midterm elections:

>> we are having problems getting former obama deputy, ben rhodes on the line so we will leave that for a bit later. in the meantime, we have something else for you. george w. bush called it a thumping. barack obama called it a shellacking. you can call it whatever you want. but democrats managed to avoid losing the dozens of house seats the presidents party traditionally loses its first midterm election. while the party lost control of the house, democrats increased their majority in the senate...

Latest news on the United States midterm elections, which last took place on Tuesday November 8, 2022.

AUSTIN — Several Texas counties reported a lower rate of rejected ballots during the November midterm election than during the March primaries, according to state data.

With the final race of the 2022 midterm election now over, UW-L Political Science Professor Tim Dale discusses what change may come in 2024.

Candidates. at the same time, so many of those candidates embraced this maga republican-ism. a lot of people in the middle -- our base turnout because they cared about things like this. kids, students, young people, about student debt, about climate, about the dobbs decision. and, people in the middle also turned and voted for us, who in the past had voted for republicans because they saw what we were doing compared to what republicans are doing. so it was a great campaign. we worked very hard t...

I know where it leads. you have to reject the conspiracy theories and embrace the truth and facts and the constitution and democracy. and i really believe that you look at governor kemp. he won handily in georgia, and he embraced all of those values. our candidates in iowa and other places the same way. so the midterm elections not a rejection of republican principles, it was just a rejection of certain candidates that are not addressing the needs of people and not following the constitution and...

Four. just look at the scoreboard. how did i do? david brook, ronald reagan, everybody thought he was too old. before his midterm, 60% of americans thought reagan shouldnt run. chuck grassley just got re-elected in iowa whos 89. and he won by 12 points. i dont think people see age as disqualifying right now. >> what do you think of that? >> i think a lot of americans do see it as disqualifying and theyre worried about it. i think paul is right. the pendulum has swung now. i think the dynamics of...

Stronger than expected midterm, showing -- chuck schumer, democrat of new york. well, first, i feel that you should be given the opportunity to take a little bit of a victory lap, as a senate majority leader now, with a 50 1:49. when you talk to talk to? >> he hit the nail on the head. two things, chris. first, we passed a whole lot of legislation that mattered to people. at the bottom line, people cared. for years, congress couldnt take on the prescription drug industry. we didnt lower the cost...

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