{"id":1727884,"date":"2022-11-07T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727884"},"modified":"2022-11-07T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:18:26","slug":"mark-lewis-two-things-scare-me-about-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-lewis-two-things-scare-me-about-the-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lewis: Two Things Scare Me About the Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-lewis-two-things-scare-me-about-the-midterms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727884&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/eab4fba1-6aef-461b-a050-6d463f7e1018.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Everything I\u2019m reading and hearing about the Tuesday midterm elections is a \u201cmassive red wave.\u201d \u201cPanic in New York.\u201d \u201cBlake Masters Takes Razor Thin Lead.\u201d \u201cMajority of Voters Support J.D. Vance.\u201d \u201cRed Wave Tuesday? Final Rasmussen Poll: GOP Leads Generic Congressional Ballot by 5 Points.\u201d \u201cThe Democrats are in Trouble.\u201d \u201cHispanics Across Arizona, Florida, Texas Abandon Democrats.\u201d \u201cLaxalt, Lombard Lead Democrat Opponents with Hispanic Voters.\u201d And on and on it goes. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I watched Sean Hannity interview Newt Gingrich Friday night. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Newt. He predicted 54-55 Senate seats for Republicans, and \u201c20-50\u201d seats picked up in the House. 20 to 50 is a broad gap, but probably accurate. It\u2019s not as big a setback for Democrats as we might think, however; they lost 63 seats under Obama in 2010. Things were bad then, but they are horrible now. If I were a Democrat, I would consider losing only \u201c20 to 50\u201d seats a moral victory. Still, the Republicans would have control of the House. However, 54-55 Republicans in the Senate would be a rout; remember, the GOP is defending Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, so 54-55 would be massive. 51-52 would be a victory, even with McConnell, Murkowski, Romney, Graham, and a few other RINOs hanging on. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But, if Republicans win the House, even a 50-50 split in the Senate, while disappointing, wouldn\u2019t be a disaster, because it takes passing both Houses before a law could be enacted. So, a Republican House would be able to stymie any more of Biden\u2019s agenda. The GOP needs control of at least one house in Congress, and it does appear very likely they will win the lower House, and very possibly the upper chamber as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A few days ago, I posted an article on Townhall where I was a little more conservative than Newt because, well, I\u2019m a conservative, it\u2019s in my bones. I predicted a final tally of 51-52 Republican Senators and a pickup of 20-30 in the House. I do think 53-55 Senators is possible, along with a 30+ pickup in the House. Given the condition of the country, I don\u2019t see how anybody can vote for any Democrat, but I always go back to the fact that I spent much of my career in higher education, so I do know the sad condition of academia today. I didn\u2019t get to teach every student in America; what a shame. I wish I could have taught more. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Two things about the election Tuesday scare me. One, so many of the races are so close. Nearly all the important Senate races are neck and neck: Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Georgia, all so very tight. Why? How can Americans look at the country and not slaughter the Democrats? Hannity and a couple of other pundits Friday night said that less than 100,000 total votes in all of those states could decide the makeup of the Senate. Again, how can these races be so close? Well, I hate to be ugly, but one of my long-held mottos is \u201cnever underestimate the stupidity of the American electorate.\u201d That certainly seems to be the case this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For example, how can ANYBODY vote for John Fetterman? How did that guy, even before his stroke, get elected to anything? It\u2019s not just that his policies are horrendous, but the man is now physically incapable of doing a credible job in the most powerful political body in the world. But the people of Pennsylvania may put him there. Such is utterly mind-boggling to me. Anybody, anyTHING but a Republican. Well, I confess I feel the same way about Democrats. But Republicans haven\u2019t run the country into the ground the last two years and didn\u2019t do so in the four years Trump was President. It was a very good four years for America. But\u2026these races are so very close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Things do look better in Ohio, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, where the GOP seems pretty solid to win. But those are \u201cholds,\u201d not \u201cpickups.\u201d Yet, still necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The second thing that scares me is because so many contests are so tight, the Democrats will certainly try to cheat and steal as many as possible. And if only a few thousand votes separate, say, Blake Masters and Marc Kelly, who\u2019s going to prevent the Democrats from \u201cfinding\u201d the few \u201cextra\u201d thousand they need? The media is certainly not going to call attention to any irregularities. Indeed, if any Republican questions the outcome of ANY election (including local dog catcher), the Democrats will immediately shout \u201celection denier!\u201d, a \u201cthreat to democracy!\u201d How does one stop that? Are the courts going to help? Probably not. Will Mitch McConnell become involved to protect his people? Don\u2019t make me laugh. Do the Republicans have a defense to protect free and fair elections? In other words, to protect democracy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If the Democrats do cheat and steal some elections\u2026what can be done about it? Any litigation would take years to sort out, and by that time, it will be too late.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So, yeah. I\u2019m a little concerned. More than a little. I don\u2019t trust the Democrats&#8217; one-millionth of one-nanometer. They will cheat if they can\u2014holding on to power, by fair or foul methods, is everything to them, and in Marxist theology, cheating is justified behavior if by doing so power can be maintained. And the Republicans haven\u2019t impressed me with a strong defense. Trusting Democrats to be fair, to tell the truth, and to do the right thing is absolutely the height of buffoonery. I hope the Republicans have a better plan than that to secure a fair election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>Christmas is coming! My 2nd Rob Conners western novel,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/9994983245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">River Bend<\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>, is now available. Honestly, I think it is much better than my first book,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1636486533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitewater<\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>. Both are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Eliva.com. Get a 10% discount on the paperback at info@elivapress.com. And read some different posts on my blog at\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/thailandlewis.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thailandlewis.blogspot.com<\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I\u2019m reading and hearing about the Tuesday midterm elections is a \u201cmassive red wave.\u201d \u201cPanic in New York.\u201d \u201cBlake Masters Takes Razor Thin Lead.\u201d \u201cMajority of Voters Support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1727887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}