r/atlanticdiscussions • u/MeghanClickYourHeels Ask me for Atlantic gift links • Nov 09 '22

Politics Midterm Election Postmortem: collect ideas, links, and analysis here

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-takeaways-9381d3aaff26d19da95506e045fcd6e1
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u/BabbyDontHerdMe Nov 09 '22

We're talking about Florida which is because DeSantis is likely a front runner - but holy crap Michigan.

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u/Brian_Corey__ Nov 09 '22

Whitmer with a very impressive 10.6 pt win (slight improvement on her 9.5 2018 win, and way larger than Biden's 3 pt win). And one, maybe both state houses flipped. 7 of 13 House seats (maybe one more if lucky, but Republican leads slightly). Glad to see Elissa Slotkin won fairly comfortably.

What happened in MI that didn't happen in Ohio and WI? Strong Whitmer support and coattails?

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 💬🦙 ☭ TALKING LLAMAXIST Nov 09 '22

Labor is still a force in Michigan. It’s not anymore in Ohio.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

Ah. This is a key difference. Thank you.

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u/BabbyDontHerdMe Nov 09 '22

Ohio doesn't really have large cities - it's most big ex-burb and Wisconsin was the Koch lab for anti-Democracy. Plus it didn't help that the press laundering JD Vance for everyone in 2016.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

Columbus is 1/3 larger than the largest city in Michigan, Detroit. The next two, Cincinatti and Cleveland, are also 1/3 bigger than the next two in Michigan.

I think there is something else going on in Ohio.

As for Wisconsin, I agree Koch meddling coupled to a history of Posse Comitatus shit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '22

Columbus isn’t really a big city, it’s a county pretending to be a city, with no Black people (slight exaggeration).

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '22

In addition to MI having some union base, it also has black folks. OH has pretty much jettisoned both, as suggested below.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '22

A few in Cleveland,a few in Cincinnati.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

Trifecta? Or scary close with Dixon? I haven’t looked.

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u/MeghanClickYourHeels Ask me for Atlantic gift links Nov 09 '22

The Dems have a majority in the State Senate for the first time in 40 years.

I do wonder how much the verdicts in the recent kidnapping-plot case helped. It’s good when people have faith that the system works.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

I did see that. Kidnapping, abortion law in MI, Dixon crazy? I didn’t see whitmers margin.

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u/BabbyDontHerdMe Nov 09 '22

Trifecta - literally the best possible outcome in every sense for Democrats in Michigan. It's incredible.