# 2022 midterms after a Biden win. Can Democrats avoid 1994 and 2010 part 3? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336 "2020-10-06T11:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/81 "2021-01-17T01:02:34Z")
The Voting Rights Act (1965) included gerrymandering limitations, and while the recent SCOTUS has weakened it, substantial parts of it have passed Constitutional tests (the Wikipedia article gives a decent summary). ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/82 "2021-01-17T01:15:16Z")
I predict that Georgia, unlike their cousin to the south, is going to end up blue. My guess is that Kemp and Raffensperger, assuming they even run in 2022, will lose their primary. Abrams will win for governor if she runs. I think Warnock is also likely to win against whichever far right Republican challenges him. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/83 "2021-01-17T21:08:48Z")
I’m happy I got more liberal as I aged. Never understood that whole thing about getting more conservative. Also seems like most of the Trump supporters I know are very young people just starting out or old people. ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/84 "2021-01-17T21:16:40Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > Never understood that whole thing about getting more conservative. I’ve gotten small-c conservative about local taxes as I’ve owned more property, and less “burn down the system” and more “work within the system” for other stuff, that’s usually the sort of thing people talk about in terms of becoming conservative with age. That adage makes sense as long as the dialog is mainly economic. 30 years ago that might have led me to vote R locally, nowadays with the R’s being burn-it-down radicals, that just moves me from progressive to moderate D in terms of economics, while keeping me firmly progressive in terms of civil rights and other non-economic issues. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/85 "2021-01-17T22:22:39Z")
Same here. I think there was a point where I maintained an “if I can succeed, so can you” mentality that lead me to hold political positions that were less than empathetic. As I grew older and wiser, I became more sensitive to the range of human experience and attuned to the difficulty of some of the life challenges I never faced personally. A lot of this had to do with living and working in a large city. This caused my political positions to become more liberal. I also feel that some positions I held that used to be moderate or even conservative light are now considered liberal as the spectrum shifted. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/86 "2021-01-17T23:36:08Z")
Me three As I saw and grew to understand the privileges that money buys that lead directly to “success” I have become a LOT more understanding and empathetic and willing to fund that leg up. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/87 "2021-01-18T13:45:49Z")
The 2022 midterm ads are underway. The Democrats have a LOT to work with! > **[The first political ads of the next cycle are already here ... and...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009239)** > > Having made it past November, and even past the Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia, it may seem like the airwaves and signboards near you would finally be free of political ads. However … that’s not quite true. While the idea that ads are already... > Having made it past November, and even past the Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia, it may seem like the airwaves and signboards near you would finally be free of political ads. However … that’s not quite true. While the idea that ads are already showing up for the 2022 election cycle might even be enough to generate howls, there’s a reason that these ads should be welcomed. Because these ads are all about holding Republicans accountable for what they’ve done over the last four years. > > That starts with ads that are going on the air in Wisconsin to detail the explicit connection between Sen. Ron Johnson and the violent attempt to overthrow the government. Voters to the south might not be catching those ads, but they could still run across a Josh Hawley billboard from [MeidasTouch](https://www.meidastouch.com/). It’s all just part of the move to clear the halls of Congress … of the people who promoted a violent attack on the halls of Congress. > … ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/88 "2021-01-19T13:21:58Z")
As a MN resident who receives mostly WI TV stations I say “ugg” Mute button at the ready Political ads, even ones I may agree with, annoy me Brian ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/89 "2021-01-19T19:26:04Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > Unfortunately I don’t think that’s the only story. Gen X used to be fairly liberal and yet they supported Trump this past election. As people age into their late-40’s some of them start to switch over. Can I see a cite for this? What I’ve been able to find breaks voters down into slightly different age buckets than generation, such as this NY Times [data](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html). Gen X spans the 30-44 bucket (basically, everyone in that bucket who was 40 and up is Gen X) - which was 52-46 for Biden - and the 45-64 bucket (the younger half of whom are Gen X) - which went 50-49 for Trump. My best extrapolation from that is that Gen Xers went for Biden, but by less than the youts. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336/90 "2021-01-19T19:32:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The 2022 midterm ads are underway. The Democrats have a LOT to work with! Just a note that that Hawley ad has nothing to do with any existing campaign or 2022. He’s not up until 2024. It’s just a bit of political theater at this point (not necessarily a bad thing) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-midterms-after-a-biden-win-can-democrats-avoid-1994-and-2010-part-3/922336.md?page=4)