The real story of the 2022 midterms, Jim Geraghty clarifies, is the “fire of voter anger at incumbents over the state of the country.” Here’s a question worth revisiting on November 9: What if, this whole time, the real story was the things voters were worried about and not the threat that Republicans could win elections by talking about the things voters were worried about?Įven at this late hour, with Election Day just over a week away, the political coverage is fretting about how the latest bursts of bad news could be exploited by GOP candidates.Īs new data this week showed student test scores plummeting amid the era of school closures, the New York Times warned that this information “could be seized as political fodder - just before the midterms - to re-litigate the debate over how long schools should have stayed closed.” (“Re-litigate,” as if those litigating this have extracted an iota of closure or justice from their fight against entrenched powers that prolonged shutdowns beyond what was necessary.) No, as NR’s editorial notes, “ of course this is political fodder.” Voters will be sending home report cards soon - and if the midterms go how it looks like they’re going to go, this kind of framing will look all the more out of focus. A woman shops for groceries at El Progreso Market in Washington, D.C., August 19, 2022.
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