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November 2022

Election Night in Arizona: ‘MAGA Is Not The Way It Used to Be’ Waiting for the red wave among Kari Lake’s supporters in Scottsdale. Peter Savodnik

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 […]

MY SAY: THE INDOCTRINATED STUDENT VOTE

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.

The red wave that wasn’t: An election postmortem By Andrea Widburg

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 […]

There WOULD Have Been a Red Wave, but One Group Saved the Left From Being Completely Obliterated By Robert Spencer

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. […]

Here’s A List Of Counties Reporting Issues At The Ballot Box This Election Day By: Shawn Fleetwood

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 […]

New York Chooses the Status Quo Amid a stark decline in quality of life and public safety, Kathy Hochul prevails in the governor’s race. Seth Barron

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 […]

It’s Ron DeSantis’ GOP Now Bob Maistros

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 […]

How did I get the midterms so wrong? I was hardly alone but that is no consolation Roger Kimball

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 […]

Morning Greatness: Where’s the Red Wave? By Liz Sheld

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

The Establishment Is Trying to Divide and Conquer MAGA By J.B. Shurk

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/11/the_establishment_is_trying_to_divide_and_conquer_maga.html

There are videos making the rounds showing President Trump standing on stage in Miami’s pouring rain while imploring Americans to get out and vote.  The metaphor is striking.  There’s Trump, battling the elements, lively as ever, refusing to give up, insisting on finishing what he’s started.  Citizen Free Press appropriately notes that “President Trump is truly a force of nature.”

I know that the months ahead will make for some spirited political debate among friends, but I encourage you to cement in your minds this quintessential image of Trump unbroken and unbowed.  Whatever else can be said about the man (and there is plenty), he remains the only leader in our times unafraid to stand alone.  When other self-proclaimed allies run the other way or look for somewhere safe to weather the approaching storm, Trump stands inside the tempest, demanding that it give up and surrender.  That’s something that will forever separate him from those who pretend to be him.

It has become normal to deconstruct Trump’s public appeal to something as basic as he fights!  Yet it is not just that Trump fights; it is why he fights that has attracted such a diverse voting coalition unlike any other political movement today.

Consider the Republican Party’s consensus issues before Donald Trump descended the golden escalator and changed everything.  By and large, Republican politicians defended the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq without question. They ignored the harms of illegal immigration as a taboo issue equated with racism.  And they dismissed discussion of revitalizing American industry and manufacturing as unrealistic in a globalist system where cheap slave labor is plentiful overseas.