A 2022 Midterm Election Silver Lining?

In 2020, Joe Biden won the popular vote by more than seven million, garnering 81 million ballots compared to Donald Trump’s 74 million. Yet this year, Republicans beat Democrats in the total vote for the U.S. House. GOP candidates received 52,142,213 votes (as of November 13), while Democratic candidates received just 47,127,174. That’s a gap of five million. In other words, the margin for the GOP shifted from minus seven million in 2020 to plus five million in 2022. That’s a margin-shift of 12 million votes.
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Biden’s approval rating averages 41.5 percent, and he hasn’t been above 50 since August 2021, and yet as far as he’s concerned, everything is going fine. All he needs to do, he thinks, is more of the same. Indeed, on November 13, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told ABC News that Biden should run again in 2024. As she put it, “He has been a great president and he has a great record to run on.”
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It’s been a bad week for the Walt Disney Co. First, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won re-election in a landslide victory on Tuesday. Then Disney’s corporate earnings disappointed Wall Street, sending its stock crashing to new lows. Now the entertainment giant is reportedly planning layoffs, a targeted hiring freeze, and travel limitation on its employees.