As the dust begins to settle on one of the most surprising elections in recent U.S. history, here are five myths about American politics that 2022’s dizzying midterms totally demolished.
kept Democrats within striking distance by boosting turnout at a time when history and the economy were working against them. But preliminary national exit polls for the U.S. House showed that Republicans actually compromised a larger share of the electorate than Democrats , and that partisans on both sides voted near-unanimously for their party’s nominees.
Most pundits have long assumed that Trump will be a lock for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination if he decides to run again. The contrast couldn’t have been starker. After losing the popular vote by 3 million in 2016, then 7 million in 2020, Trump has now weighed the GOP down in the first big election of his post-presidency — by boosting weak candidates; by dragging the party into battles over his past misconduct; and by insisting, as The Atlantic’s David FrumFormer President Donald Trump speaks to a guest at Mar-a-lago on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Turns out the narrative was only partially correct. In the preliminary national exit polls, nearly two-thirds of voters said gas prices had been “a financial hardship recently,” and about one-third pick inflation as the issue that weighed heaviest on them when deciding how to cast their ballots. That’s precisely the number who said the same in pretty muchBut nearly as many chose abortion in the exit poll, and about seven in 10 said democracy itself was “threatened.
Pennsylvania was the opposite. With a Republican legislature ready to rubber stamp his most extreme policies, Mastriano, the MAGA candidate for governor, made it clear that he would reverse abortion rights and appoint a fellow election denier as secretary of state. He wound up losing by 14. It will take some time to pinpoint precisely how Latino-Americans voted Tuesday. But early signs suggest that there might be good news and bad news for both parties.
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