https://www.commonsense.news/p/election-night-in-arizona-maga-is?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—It was supposed to be a “red tsunami.” Not just a wave. And not just the House. But the Senate, the governorships, and state legislatures. We were told it would be the end of the politics of race, gender fluidity, drag queen brunches, undocumented workers, homeless encampments, Dr. Fauci, ESG, RINOs—followed by the […]
To bolster Robert Spencer’s excellent column listed below, here are some statistics:
For academic year 2021-2022, 475 colleges and universities are active in New York – 116 public and 359 private schools.e located in New York, the most of any state in the U.S. Dozens of colleges are within the State University of New York and City University of New York systems, two of the largest public university systems in the U.S.Total 1,213,568 students including in both undergraduate and graduate programs attend New York colleges and universities
In Pennsylvania there are 58 public colleges and universities in Pennsylvania enrolling 359,123 students.
In the United States in 2022: 15.9 million students were enrolled at a post secondary institution. About 11.6 million students, or 73%, were enrolled in an associate or bachelor’s program. Roughly 2.9 million, or 18%, were enrolled in a graduate-level program.
Students vote in large numbers and belong to the “progressive and woke” and large and influential constituency of the Democrat party.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/the_red_wave_that_wasnt_an_election_postmortem.html Well, that was disheartening, dispiriting, and demoralizing. We went into the party with a president with some of the lowest approval ratings in history and Americans (at least according to the polls) focused like lasers on issues that could be chalked up to Democrat policy failures — namely, inflation and crime. And yet Republicans are hanging […]
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/11/09/there-would-have-been-a-red-wave-but-one-group-saved-the-left-from-being-completely-obliterated-n1644558 John Della Volpe, a hard-Left pollster and author of a deathless tome entitled FIGHT: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear & Passion to Save America, is claiming that his favorite age group saved the midterm elections for those who love skyrocketing inflation, open borders, rising crime, international ridicule and brinksmanship, and accelerating authoritarianism. […]
https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/08/heres-a-list-of-counties-reporting-issues-at-the-ballot-box-this-election-day/ Election Day 2022 has arrived and unsurprisingly, some Americans are already encountering a myriad of problems when going to cast their ballots at their local precinct. Given the chaotic nature of the 2020 elections — all thanks to an influx of private money into election offices and an unprecedented expansion of unsupervised mail-in voting […]
https://www.city-journal.org/new-york-chooses-status-quo By a relatively slim margin, Governor Kathy Hochul won her campaign to be elected the first woman to lead New York State. Anxiety among the Democrats that she would lose to Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin, who ran a strong race, appears to have been overblown. Hochul’s margin of victory was roughly where the […]
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/11/09/its-ron-desantiss-gop-now/ ‘The Red Wave.” If you’ve been watching Fox News and frequenting conservative websites the last few weeks (and this commentator admits he does more than his share of both), you were hearing how Republicans were going to have another one of those massive 2010-style seat pickups in the House. Win 56 seats in the […]
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/get-midterms-wrong-red-wave/ How wrong can you be? About as wrong as I was about the character of the midterm elections. I thought there would be a red wave, fueled in part by high-octane orange fuel. Clearly I was wrong. It is no consolation to know that I was hardly alone in my assumptions. Nor is it […]
https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/09/morning-greatness-wheres-the-red-wave/
Election:
Red State Voters Widely Reject Marijuana Legalization In Midterms
Nevada Won’t Be Done Counting Mail-In Ballots For Days: REPORT
Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan Wins Re-Election In New Hampshire
Stacey Abrams concedes to Kemp in Georgia governor’s race
DeSantis’ midterms win cements position as 2024 presidential contender
Possible interference from Beijing looms over elections
Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be first female governor of Arkansas
In Arizona, voting machine glitch gives way to election integrity concerns
WV voters strike down 4 proposed amendments in midterms
Democrat Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers defeats Republican challenger for second term
New York governor race: Hochul beats Zeldin in election to lead Empire State
Republicans pick up hotly contested House seat in Virginia
Rand Paul promises to ‘subpoena every last document of Dr. Fauci’ in victory speech
Florida’s Miami-Dade County turns red for DeSantis: First GOP gov to win in two decades
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wins reelection in Michigan
Election history in the making: Women, black, gay, Gen Z candidates notch wins
Californians back flavored tobacco ban
DeSantis, conservatives score more Florida school board wins
Budd Smokes Beasley in North Carolina Senate Race
Other morsels:
Twitter to add ‘official’ mark to verified big accounts
Virginia Giuffre drops allegations against Alan Dershowitz, saying she ‘may have made a mistake’
Judge tosses Vindman’s suit against Trump allies
Wes Moore makes history as Maryland’s first Black governor
Ron Klain’s uncertain future inside the White House
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ron-desantis-florida-tsunami-charlie-crist-governor-election-covid-11667964888?mod=opinion_lead_pos1
Ron DeSantis was expected to win re-election as Florida Governor, but the big news Tuesday was the magnitude of his victory. His nearly 20-point rout of Democrat Charlie Crist shows the magnitude of the political change in the once-swing state and may launch the Republican’s campaign for the White House.
The Governor won nearly everywhere in the state, and notably in Democratic strongholds. He won by double digits in heavily Hispanic Miami-Dade County, which Joe Biden carried by 85,000 votes and a statewide Republican hadn’t carried since Jeb Bush won re-election 2002. Mr. DeSantis also won Osceola County south of Orlando, which has a heavy Puerto Rican population. He even won in Democratic Palm Beach County.
The DeSantis tide lifted other GOP candidates, as Sen. Marco Rubio won re-election handily. The GOP also picked up two House seats, including the St. Petersburg seat Mr. Crist gave up to run for Governor.
Florida has been trending to the GOP for some time, and previous two-term Governors Mr. Bush and Rick Scott did much to demonstrate effective Republican governance. But Mr. DeSantis won by fewer than 34,000 votes in 2018. He was leading Tuesday by nearly 1.5 million with 90% of the vote counted. Florida Democrats are going to have to rethink their campaigns in the state.
In his victory remarks, Mr. DeSantis credited his pandemic policies, stressing “freedom” over mandates, and “education” over “indoctrination.” He expanded school choice in the state, which has helped win minority voters. He opened the state for business and classroom instruction earlier than most Governors did—decisions that were widely derided in the national and Florida press. But the voters seemed to appreciate those policies and rewarded him.
Mr. DeSantis is thought to have presidential ambitions, and his victory speech sounded like it. A national campaign is a much larger challenge than running even a large state like Florida, and Mr. DeSantis will have to cut down on his extensive use of the vertical pronoun if he wants to rally a movement.
But there’s little doubt that his Florida success will grab the attention of voters outside the Sunshine State. You can bet Donald J. Trump was watching—unhappily.
