All righty. Hello, everyone. Welcome to it. It is the Derek Hunter podcast for the 27th of September 2022. Happy Tuesday to you. We're well on our way to the weekend.

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I don't care why you support the show. I just appreciate that you do. All right, let us get on with the program. We have a lot going on. There's a bunch of stuff to get to today. And I'm sitting there and thinking, where do I want to start? Where do I want to start? Well, I want to start with a friendly fire.

I want to start with criticizing Republicans because this is a problem for Republicans. And if the midterm elections don't go as well as they should.

It's what I like it doesn't even matter. You just have to be not the party in power. Not the party in the White House. And you generally do well in a midterm election.

So if things don't go well, it is not because, well, the Democrats were in a really smart campaign because they're not running a really smart campaign. We'll get to what they're running on soon enough.

It's not because they're appealing to more. They're not trying to appeal to anybody except for their own base. They're looking at this as a base election.

And if they get enough Democrats to turn out, that's enough. They think that the Republicans won't turn out. So they need their base to show up. That's it. They're running on a campaign of

at screw independence. Forget them. They're not in, they think they're not interested. It's because they can't appeal to them. They have to kind of run on that. And maybe they're right.

Because you can't just win an election simply because you're the other guy. At least you can't easily win an election. You can't win as many elections in the House of Representatives as you should.

You can't win as many seats as you should saying, I'm the Republican and Democrats are in charge. Okay. That's all well and good. But the other guys given me reasons to vote for them.

They're bad reasons. They're not, but at least they're saying what they're going to do and why they should be elected, whereas Republicans aren't.

Now, just to give you the context of this, 1994. Republicans were in the, we're on the outs with everything. Republicans were out of the House of Representatives and out of power in the House of Representatives for 40 years.

40 years. And that's, that's pretty significant. Yet they had a plan. They have now in the Senate. It had been different with Ronald Reagan's coattails. These Republicans control the Senate for two years in 1981 to 1983.

The beginning of 91 to, or 81 to the beginning of 83, the next midterm elections. As always happens, they lost and boom, they were back in the minority again. But the House was significant because they won it by a large margin.

Part of the reason they wanted is because the Democrats were particularly terrible, a scenario in which we currently find ourselves. Democrats are particularly terrible and wildly unpopular.

Anybody who's patting themselves on the back and thinking, no matter what happens and no matter who the nominee is, 2024 is going to be a cakewalk, has to remember 1994. No matter what happens this time, the presidents can be wildly wildly unpopular and then go on to win because two years is an eternity in politics.

The opposite is true too. If you look at 1991 George H.W. Bush, then it was just George Bush because he was the only one. If you look at him after the Gulf War, he was unstoppable. He was unbeatable. He was, he was so wildly popular, said like 81% approval ring. People loved him.

Many violated his pledge to read my lips, no new taxes, he raised taxes. Then we had a recession because of it and part because of it. And he became wildly unpopular. If George H.W. or H.W. Bush was so wildly popular, but you can find it online somewhere. There was a SNL, Saturday Night Live skit that was pretty damn funny.

And it was a debate amongst Democrats considering running in 1992. And it was the fight, it was a whole bunch of Democrats up there fighting to not be the nominee.

And it was the race to not be the guy who loses to George Bush. That was what they called it. That was the announcer comes over. Now here's the Democratic debate, the race not to be the one to lose to George Bush.

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