2026 Midterm Discussions

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Seeing California red is just crazy.

It's sad though. It's taken an illegal war, inflation, corruption we've never seen before in our lives, and the threatening of allies while cozying up to historical enemies to get to this point. Where the senate MIGHT switch. In any normal society, it would be a give-in that the people would revolt against the people in charge. But the cult hubris is so thick that they can't admit they made a horrible mistake.

The senate is:

1. Naturally favorable to republicans because a state like Wyoming and California both have equal representation (and the Rs have a lot of loyal rural states)

2. Split into 3 classes, only one of which is up for election in any given cycle. This election is class 2, which is the most favorable for Republicans of any class.

So while the Democrats are way ahead, it's still unclear if they will take back the Senate due to the favorable environment for Republicans.

 

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An interesting result of this though is,

The next Senate elections in 28 and 30 will be more balanced

So we might even see Dems hold the Senate until 2032 if they win here

 

[titan_tim]

An interesting result of this though is,

The next Senate elections in 28 and 30 will be more balanced

So we might even see Dems hold the Senate until 2032 if they win here

I knew that the senate races didn't happen all at the same time, but I didn't realize they were on a three set cycle like that.

The rural farmer states really should be the one's pushing back against Trump and his policies. Everything he's done has hurt them:
- They've cracked down on their immigrant workers.
- They've immensely increased diesel prices which all their equipment use.
- The tariffs have increased all farming necessities (Machines, Fertilizer, pesticides, etc).
- Retaliatory tariffs have hugely hurt their export sales.
- They've allowed beef farmers to be affected by parasites while bringing beef from Argentina.
- They've screwed over soybean farmers immensely while subsidizing Argentinian farmers.
- They screwed up so horribly that the government is bailing them out with about $12 billion.

At a certain point, they need to realize that they're getting screwed completely.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

I knew that the senate races didn't happen all at the same time, but I didn't realize they were on a three set cycle like that.

The rural farmer states really should be the one's pushing back against Trump and his policies. Everything he's done has hurt them:
- They've cracked down on their immigrant workers.
- They've immensely increased diesel prices which all their equipment use.
- The tariffs have increased all farming necessities (Machines, Fertilizer, pesticides, etc).
- Retaliatory tariffs have hugely hurt their export sales.
- They've allowed beef farmers to be affected by parasites while bringing beef from Argentina.
- They've screwed over soybean farmers immensely while subsidizing Argentinian farmers.
- They screwed up so horribly that the government is bailing them out with about $12 billion.

At a certain point, they need to realize that they're getting screwed completely.

*Insert blazing saddles reference*