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THE BIG MID-TERM ELECTION
“A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty, ‘Hi Ho Silver!’ This coming election deserves an introduction with the wild spirit and abandon of the starting comment made every time the Lone Ranger showed across early television screens in the USA. The mass media has managed to make the coming mid-term elections, elections generally known for a great lack of interest and low voting numbers, into the most important election of all time. Either pure socialism, nearly akin to communism, will triumph and everyone’s life will be run by some sort of governmental control, or the country will revert to a time when the monied and powerful ruled everything with an iron fist.
The voter registrations in Wisconsin and across the nation show figures that have never been seen before for a mid-term election. The number of young people registering and new women registering may reach record levels, going even beyond those of presidential elections. What does this new interest, however inflamed and motivated by the mass media, mean in likely effecting the outcome that is about to unfold in front of everyone prior to the next issue of The Geneva Shore Report coming out next week?
Elections are difficult to predict, particularly in this time where the polling companies, once bastions of integrity and backed by scholastic and academic institutions, are mostly sold out (in providing results) to whomever is ready to pay the highest price. The word ‘whomever’ is used on purpose here because parties and candidates are no longer the primary donors paying for polls or advertising of the candidates. Thanks to a previous Supreme Court ruling, the bulk of campaign money, once raised by candidates, or borrowed from banks by them, is now paid by unknown and unnamed individuals and companies as unidentifiable as they are untraceable. So, the polls, once depended upon, can no longer be considered as accurate.
Where does that leave the public?
Election Day is less than a week away. Tuesday November 8, 2022. The polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. sharp. All four districts’ voters of Lake Geneva vote at the Lake Geneva City Hall, so there is only one voting poll. Early, in person voting, has started and will continue at Lake Geneva City Hall from 9 a.m. through 4 p.m. until Friday, the 4th of November. Trying to gauge what might happen in this coming election is most difficult because of some rather quietly motivating factors that don’t seem to get discussed much, at least not as influencing the vote.
The fact that so many new women voters are coming aboard is not a likely good sign for republicans because of the very unpopular vote in Roe V. Wade by the Supreme Court recently. The real effect will only be known as the voting tabulation results come in, however. The young people of the country are stirring and beginning to take to the polls, if their new registrations are any indication. Will the young ‘millennials’ have a serious effect on the outcome of the elections? That is another totally unpredictable result that cannot be predicted. Assuredly, however, the young people will not be voting for young candidates as there simply aren’t any.
Where does that leave either party? The ads put forth by almost all candidates running for office in this election, and nationwide, have been different, whether put forth by the candidate or a ‘dark money’ group or individual. They are mostly without respect, integrity, honor, or even decent manners, and that’s a shame for our country and times…and an indictment of both the mass media supporting it and Supreme Court legalizing it.
