Oh, my! Y’all are making me look like a moron. I had made a broad prediction that RepubliKKKlans would carry the night, contrary to anything the party has been able to do since the fall of Roe or even since traitor trump won in 2016. Being the stubborn, obtuse person that I am, I refused to believe Democrats could hold their own, but they did. Beshear won re-election, which was utterly predictable because, let’s face it, Kentucky was never going to elect a Black man as governor. That bore out by the margin of Beshear’s victory, which was a blowout compared to his 2019 win. Mississippi re-elected RepubliKKKlan Reeves despite his egregious corruption while in office. Go figure! Ohio’s amendment to protect reproductive rights was easily passed. Again, not surprising. All in all, blue areas got bluer, and red areas stayed just as red. The only real surprise of the night was Virginia. Democrats held the state Senate and flipped the state House. It would appear people did not believe Youngkin’s “middle, moderate” way on abortion rights. Good on them! In addition, it looks like New Jersey Democrats will expand their margins in the legislature, and Pennsylvania Democrats added another state supreme court justice to the bench, which brings the balance of the chamber to 5-2 in favor of Democrats. Apparently, there was a vacancy in the high court, and this addition is expected to break a deadlock on some issues, including mail-ballot rulings. Ugh! Really? A “Democratic” justice (I use quotes because justices are supposed to be non-partisan, but clearly, parties back their preferred candidates) sided with RepubliKKKlans on voting rights.
Indeed, it was a good night for Democrats, and it looks like abortion rights had some influence on these elections. But! But, I’m not entirely convinced. It would appear — or at least political pundits are speculating — that people voted for Beshear over Cameron because Beshear favors exceptions for abortions in the cases of rape and incest. However, there are no exceptions in Kentucky’s abortion law currently, and nothing is going to change since RepubliKKKlans control the legislature. So, it begs the question: If people had elected Cameron, then nothing would have changed with abortion rights. That leads me back to my original hypothesis: Racists of Kentucky will never elect a Black governor. On the other hand, perhaps Virginians saw through Youngkin’s and RepubliKKKlans’ 15-week abortion ban ploy. I did not expect that. I am not ready to concede that abortion rights are a primary motivator for voters. I still cannot reconcile how voters elected traitor trump in 2016, who literally ran on a platform to overturn Roe — nay, he even stated that women should be punished for getting an abortion. Yet, idiots voted for him anyway, and he delivered; I am continuously baffled by these voters. Presumably, they got precisely what they voted for, which was an end to federally protected reproductive rights. Is this a case of be careful what you wish? I guess. But let’s be clear about something else. Southern states are perfectly fine with laws banning abortions. Note that all these election upsets over abortion rights are only occurring in the North. So, for half the nation, enshrining abortion rights into law is a non-starter.
Let me come to my final point: Last night may have been evidence of a continued winning streak for Democrats, but it is not necessarily an auspicious moment for Biden. The liberal MSM is going crazy and bending over backward to point out that these Biden polls must be wrong and that Biden always overperforms compared to the polls. Moreover, the only accurate polls to pay attention to are election results. With this last point, I agree, but I think it is a mistake to correlate last night’s results with a potential Biden victory next year. To be sure, Democrats are on a roll, but presidential elections are like no other; I think this “age” question is a real problem for him. And I should clarify that this perceived age issue is really code for a Harris presidency, which is not so much code for a Black woman in the White House. Please, please understand this era of traitor trump is a long backlash to Obama’s presidency. It is that f***ing simple! Indeed, the backlash reared its ugly head in the midterm elections following Obama’s first term win. Not only did Democrats lose control of the House and Senate by unprecedented margins, but the party lost all over the country in state and local elections. They lost over a thousand seats nationwide; the Democratic Party still — to this day — has never recovered completely. Traitor trump came along as — literally — half the country’s great white (male) knight. Biden was also a white knight savior of sorts, but I think voters are scared sh*tless of a Black woman president. This is why Hillary lost. I guess voters believed Biden when he said he intended to be a bridge president. Voters thought he could make it through one term, and then the field would open again in four years. Now, it seems voters fear he’ll die during his second term, and you know what that means! To be sure, racism and misogyny run deep in this country, and that ain’t changing anytime soon, especially with the “threat” of a Harris presidency. There is a reason why Black and Hispanic men have indicated they favor traitor trump. And let me be very clear about something else. Harris would, of course, win the national popular vote in a head-to-head election, but that’s not how we elect presidents; it is the slim margins in the Electoral College process that are a danger and would cause a popular candidate to lose to the minority’s choice. This is the preverbal conundrum that America seems incapable of escaping, and it is the danger that Biden is in.