The Senate, where the GOP holds 53 seats, remains a toss-up, the conservative outlet says
For the first time this year, Fox News is projecting that Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections.
In its latest power rankings Tuesday, the conservative outlet forecast that Democrats are favored to capture 219 seats — one more than the 218 needed for a majority. Republicans were favored in 198 races, while 18 contests remained toss-ups.
“The House is likely out of reach for the GOP this year,” according to the Fox News analysis. “The Democratic Party has enjoyed a lead in the House all year. Now, as another 20 races shift leftward, this forecast sees the Democrats taking control.”
I hate that politics is like fucking sports. Just dumb stats and predictions to fill airspace. And the best part is people who think they’re too smart for sports eat it up.
“Horse race” political coverage has been an issue for decades. Talking heads going on and on about poll numbers, who’s ahead, who’s behind, etc, etc, while very pointedly not talking about the actual issues at stake in the election.
Partly that’s because numbers are easier to talk about. Partly it’s because actually talking about the issues would bring up issues that media oligarchs don’t want to talk about and don’t want to give airtime to.
And partly because they’ve got 24 hours to fill and not much actually happens in a given day.
And partly because really good journalism is slow, methodical, boring, and nerdy and it doesn’t sell ad space.
Fuck this world.
They both cater to natural human tribalistic tendencies.