WHY did we lose?

[haele]

128. The pandemic.Voters either lost their damn minds or retreated into a daily life bubble.

The GOP didn't make enough gains through fear-mongering to overcome the registered Democratic that didn't show.
And from the surveys, those who voted for all Democratic down ticket but *rump for president didn't make much sense unless you realized they really did want a Daddy who would just tell you how the chores were going to be divvied up to get an allowance while he took care of "heavy lifting around the house" instead of someone who expected you to participate in the running of the household.
There's been a real problem world wide with recovery from the Pandemic, the lingering stress and exhaustion of recovery and some hazy memories of the "Before Times" -which in most cases weren't that much better if not worse.
But people don't remember the bad stuff as much as they long for the good things they had to put on hold, but couldn't recover.

Haele