NY Times Hot Take: Republicans Leading 2022 Mid-terms From Gerrymandered Maps

Here we go: Democrats are already setting the stage for a big loss in 2022 by blaming gerrymandered maps, forgetting that states that are run by Democrats are being gerrymandered in their favor. Outlets like the NY Times know that the Democrat voting foot soldiers are dumb enough to believe this, especially if repeated enough times. Also, the unhinged #NeverTrumpers, who keep saying they are conservatives/Republicans yet do everything possible to help Democrats

Republicans Gain Heavy House Edge in 2022 as Gerrymandered Maps Emerge

A year before the polls open in the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans are already poised to flip at least five seats in the closely divided House thanks to redrawn district maps that are more distorted, more disjointed and more gerrymandered than any since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.

The rapidly forming congressional map, a quarter of which has taken shape as districts are redrawn this year, represents an even more extreme warping of American political architecture, with state legislators in many places moving aggressively to cement their partisan dominance.

The flood of gerrymandering, carried out by both parties but predominantly by Republicans, is likely to leave the country ever more divided by further eroding competitive elections and making representatives more beholden to their party’s base.

At the same time, Republicans’ upper hand in the redistricting process, combined with plunging approval ratings for President Biden and the Democratic Party, provides the party with what could be a nearly insurmountable advantage in the 2022 midterm elections and the next decade of House races.

Well, it’s nice that the NY Times mentions the poor approval ratings, but, they see that as secondary, as it’s all about those mean, cheating Republicans who will commit…..politics. Does anyone think California will be fair in redistricting? How about Oregon? Washington? It wouldn’t matter how this happens in Republican run states, as, at least at this time, people are extremely unhappy with the Democrats, and you just can’t see Biden getting better. His only saving grace will be if the economy gets a lot better by voting day next year.

See, though, it’s not just bad for the House

Nationalized races threaten Dem governors in ’22

The sharp swing away from Democrats last week in Virginia and New Jersey has the party newly alarmed about even more vulnerable governorships across the country next year.

President Joe Biden’s sinking approval rating in Virginia was one of the factors that helped doom former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, strategists on both sides of the aisle say, something that could materialize in 2022 if the political environment does not change.

Even in gubernatorial races — in which candidates generally do a better job at separating themselves from national party dynamics than in federal races — negative views of the president present a huge problem for a slate of Democratic incumbents up next year. That’s especially true after many tied themselves closely to Biden during his 2020 campaign and the first six months of his presidency.

It looked to me like McAuliffe lost more due to his big mouth in pissing off parents, and would have lost by more without early voting and cheat by mail. You can expect Democrats to get more squirrely over the next year, and will talk about cheating, for which they believe gerrymandering is part of that (failing to mention that in their own states, nor will the media call them on it), and push lots of fearmongering about Republicans wanting to instituted Fascism, because Fascism apparently means “less government in your life” now.