Brown makes successful return to US Senate after voters reject Republican incumbent Jon Husted
Democrat Sherrod Brown will return to the US Senate, as Ohio’s voters rejected the incumbent Jon Husted in a significant defeat for Republicans.
Brown’s bid for a comeback after being ousted from the seat he held for 18 years in 2024 became one of the marquee contests of this year’s midterm elections, and a key test of whether Democrats can regain support among the working class and rural voters who have deserted them in recent years.
Some murmurs from the other side of the aisle.
The crazy part is how they keep saying “we”. After doing the exact opposite of what was promised, they still think they’re on the team. It really is a cult.
Not just a cult, it’s a death cult, it’s an identity cult. Scary shit. I do not expect these people to connect with reality before it’s too late for them.
To be fair, it’s pervasive on both sides of the aisle. Obviously MAGA is more of a cult, but it’s kind of gross when people root for a color uninformed.
I don’t have cable, so I was trying to watch election results and ended up on a stream. I had to get out of there pretty quickly because the “Go Blue” “Go Red” “Blue team winning” comments were making me depressed.
Voters need to understand that the primary is more important than the General election and local and state politics are just as important as those. But so many people tune out and just root like it’s a sports team every 2 or 4 years.
Self reflection on r/conservative!? Holy shit, the Trump spell is actually breaking.
I’m sure it’s only because their mods are asleep or busy running other bot networks, they’ll have the wrongthink cleaned up in the morning
It’s always like this before they get their marching orders.
The thing is, they are mostly correct. A corrupt Trump government was not a problem most voters care about, but when he skyrocketed gas prices he guaranteed that Republican voters would stay home in droves. It was a massive own-goal after getting elected on lowering prices.
Edit: And then he went on TV and bragged how much money he was making on the high gas prices, like even conservatives aren’t that stupid.
I thought i read somewhere that corruption was the second biggest issue for voters, after economy.
An excellent point which brings up the other issue with exit polling is that it only tells us what people who vote think and not people who didn’t vote. Democrats turned out in similar numbers to 2024 (which is huge for a midterm), but Republicans just didn’t show up. Why did they not turn out? Personally, I think it was the gas prices and grocery prices (and the Iran War for causing the former). But that data won’t show up in the exit polls.
like even conservatives aren’t that stupid
Don’t give them too much credit. I have former coworkers who are ODing on copium about how the economy is the strongest it’s ever been, and the Dems have no agenda except going after the orange pedo and his crotch fruit.
A corrupt Trump government was not a problem most voters care about
It fucking should’ve been, because acting contrary to the will of constituents is the obvious and inevitable result of such corruption. Are people really too stupid to understand that?
Yes. Not all Americans, but a lot of them can only see what is affecting them in the most direct way, they literally lack the ability to conclude that a politician is picking their pocket when they engage in brazen corruption and self-dealing the way that the Trump family has the last two years. It is an indictment of our education system. I’ve known college graduates who literally cannot define the word ‘hypocrisy’ - this is not hyperbole, I have in my conversations with conservatives asked someone to define the word (that they were misusing) and got deer in headlights as a response. It’s that bad. Americans are stupid, really really stupid. Not all of us, but many.
“Gas price bad!” is a message that all Americans understand “Trump is taking bribes and stealing tax money” gets “Well, it doesn’t affect me” as a response. Stupid. So fucking stupid.
Nah, this is like a reverse post-nut-clarify. Tomorrow they’ll be back to blaming immigrants and force-surgery-trans-kids for why they can’t afford anything.
I just think that it’s so obvious what happened that even they can’t deny it.
Wow, our guys are really as dumb as rocks.
-Republican voters
I’m like a tick full of blood right now, just barfing on myself with smugness and satisfaction
53!54!Sadly it can’t hit the magic 60 Senator number to blast through the self-imposed filibuster level.
They would need a veto-proof majority anyway. They just needed a Fetterman-proof majority in the Senate.
Guess the voters were not impressed with his ass as much as Trump was.
