Welcome to Douglas Wilson. This is the plodcast. This is episode 226 of the

podcast and I think that you were very sweet to come. You are most welcome. Good to have you. So let's talk about the midterm

elections and election reliability. As those of you who have been following my comments here know that I think that there was a serious amount of funny business in the presidential election in 2020.

And you may have heard rumbles about the coming red wave in the midterm

elections. The midterms as I'm as I'm recording this we're right at the tail

end of January 2022. So the presidential

election was in 2020. The the midterms are 2022 in about nine months. So we're almost into February and it's not that far away.

Here's the deal. For those, here's a rudimentary civics lesson.

The Congressman in the House of Representatives,

every congressman is up for election every two years.

Every congressional district sends a congressman every two years. Every congressional district sends a congressman every two years. In the Senate, we have

two senators from every state. They're 100 senators total and every every two years one third of them are up for re-election.

So that's because senators serve a six-year term.

So if a senator's elected, he doesn't have to stand for election two years

out, nor does he have to stand for election six years out, but he has to stand for election,

the third year out from his initial election.

So every senator stands for election every six years.

And that means a third of the Senate is up for grabs every election cycle.

But 100% of the House of Representatives is up for election.

Now, in this last election the Democrats did not do nearly as well as some people were

predicting in the House of Representatives. They control the House of Representatives, but not by a big

margin. And the Senate is a functionally a tie, and because the vice president of the United States is the president of the Senate,

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