{"id":159766,"date":"2022-11-09T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T20:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=159766"},"modified":"2022-11-09T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T20:13:01","slug":"the-early-post-midterms-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/09\/the-early-post-midterms-view.html","title":{"rendered":"The Early Post-Midterms View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So looking at Colorado’s races, I’m pretty happy. the Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and AG, all went pretty strongly blue.<\/p>\n

On ballot measures … most of what I voted for (link<\/a> and link<\/a>) passed. Some important ones, like school meals funding were a pretty resounding success.<\/p>\n

Of course, we also cut the income tax rate. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n

The three liquor bills look like they are going down to defeat, although 125 is still very close at this moment.<\/p>\n

Dems won for the US Senate seat (soundly), and US House Districts 1, 2, 7, and my own 6 (go, Jason!). The usual gang of idiots took 4 and 5. The new district 8 looks like it might go blue, but it’s pretty tight.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, from a state reputation basis, House District 3, a West Slope country-conservative area, just might be sending Boebert home, which would be a real relief no matter how the House overall goes. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

On a national level, it’s still unclear how the House and Senate will end up — very tight in each chamber, which will hamper either side from extremes. Still, I’ll hate to see Jim Jordan and MTG doing their committee chair zaniness with even the barest sliver of a majority.<\/p>\n

It’s clear, regardless, that the people who kept it from being the predicted “Red Tsunami” were, on the one hand, Donald Trump and his coterie of sycophants who not only endorsed some of the worst candidates out there, but forced all the others to bravely nod in support of his daftness. And, on the other hand, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court, through their\u00a0Dobbs<\/em> ruling, mobilized a\u00a0lot<\/em> of turnout against GOP candidates who were, at best, trapped into being stridently anti-abortion (or who were).<\/p>\n

Democracy, and our nation, are by no means out of the woods. But things are looking quite a bit less bleak than they were a day or two ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things actually went pretty well in Colorado, and a lot less dire than expected nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2135,1071,348],"tags":[2289],"class_list":["post-159766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2022","category-trump","category-women","tag-election2022"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/election-booths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160030,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/01\/the-unbearable-gopness-of-being-earl.html","url_meta":{"origin":159766,"position":0},"title":"The Unbearable GOPness of Being Earl","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Feb-23 1:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Earl is the recipient of more GOP awards than you can imagine. 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