On November 8th this year, about 60% of America's eligible voters will elect 435 House Representatives, 34 Senators and 36 governors. Odds favor the Republicans taking the House.
Besides the massive number of seats up for election, there are several variables in play; the aftermath of COVID upon elderly voters, Inflation and Russia's attack on Ukraine (mainly the economic impact on the West), the Insurrection trials, Redistricting, and the impact of the Independents/Third Party voters.
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2022
A total of 469 seats in the U.S. Congress (34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats) are up for election on November 8, 2022.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2022
The Democrats’ majority in Congress is razor-thin: The Senate is a 50-50 split (with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote giving them the advantage) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s control of the House rests on a slim margin. In 2022, all 435 House seats and 34 of the 100 Senate seats are on the ballot. Additionally, 36 out of 50 states will elect governors.
https://www.newstatesman.com/intern...5/us-midterm-elections-2022-explained-america
At the moment, the Democrats control the House: they hold 221 seats to the Republicans’ 208. (Six seats are vacant.) The Senate is equally split, with 50 members from each party. Kamala Harris, the vice-president, has a tiebreaker vote so the Democrats are nominally in control...
...I keep reading about “redistricting” or how congressional districts are “redrawn”. What does that mean?
It means changing electoral boundaries. The census dictates how House seats are distributed between the states. We just had a new census, and so had new maps. But none of this exists in a vacuum. Gerrymandering is the process of drawing boundaries to favour one political party. Sometimes boundary changes are also criticised for curtailing minority communities’ voting power. The North Carolina supreme court, for example, struck down new maps drawn by the state’s legislature, arguing that they denied all citizens equal voting power on the basis of partisan affiliation. The US Supreme Court is likely to hear cases in the not too distant future to decide whether state courts will be able to continue to provide such a check on state legislatures.
Also, that congressional seats have been redrawn means some members of Congress who are in the same party are now running against each other.
Besides the massive number of seats up for election, there are several variables in play; the aftermath of COVID upon elderly voters, Inflation and Russia's attack on Ukraine (mainly the economic impact on the West), the Insurrection trials, Redistricting, and the impact of the Independents/Third Party voters.
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2022
A total of 469 seats in the U.S. Congress (34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats) are up for election on November 8, 2022.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2022
The Democrats’ majority in Congress is razor-thin: The Senate is a 50-50 split (with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote giving them the advantage) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s control of the House rests on a slim margin. In 2022, all 435 House seats and 34 of the 100 Senate seats are on the ballot. Additionally, 36 out of 50 states will elect governors.
https://www.newstatesman.com/intern...5/us-midterm-elections-2022-explained-america
At the moment, the Democrats control the House: they hold 221 seats to the Republicans’ 208. (Six seats are vacant.) The Senate is equally split, with 50 members from each party. Kamala Harris, the vice-president, has a tiebreaker vote so the Democrats are nominally in control...
...I keep reading about “redistricting” or how congressional districts are “redrawn”. What does that mean?
It means changing electoral boundaries. The census dictates how House seats are distributed between the states. We just had a new census, and so had new maps. But none of this exists in a vacuum. Gerrymandering is the process of drawing boundaries to favour one political party. Sometimes boundary changes are also criticised for curtailing minority communities’ voting power. The North Carolina supreme court, for example, struck down new maps drawn by the state’s legislature, arguing that they denied all citizens equal voting power on the basis of partisan affiliation. The US Supreme Court is likely to hear cases in the not too distant future to decide whether state courts will be able to continue to provide such a check on state legislatures.
Also, that congressional seats have been redrawn means some members of Congress who are in the same party are now running against each other.
