I’ve always enjoyed politics ever since my mid-teens and there is one main reason for that, as well as a few other smaller reasons such as caring how my country is run and keeping myself informed on what is happening and what might happen not just in my own country but also around the world.
But the main reason is just watching the outcome unfold, it just gives me excitement no matter what side does well whether it is the side I have rooted for or not, the data and analytics of elections, more so for the US and UK which are the main elections I focus on, is enjoyable to go through to me, just seeing who won what and where and looking into the possible whys and hows.
And no bigger event apart from a General or Presidential Election can get me going again than the US Midterm elections, with hundreds of elections to focus on and look in to, it gives me much to look forward to. I have already recorded down all of the US Primary Election results that have happened so far.
If you do not know what the US Midterm elections are they are elections that happen 2 years into a 4 year Presidential Term… as to why they are called the Midterm Elections! They elect seats for the US House of Representatives which is the lower House of Congress and they elect a number of Senate seats as well which is the upper House of Congress, but not all of them as Senetors terms are a bit more mixed and different to House terms. Senetors represent a state in Legislative Government with each US state having two Senetors, while Representatives from the lower House represent smaller parts of a US state known as Congressional Districts, the amount of Representatives a US state has is based on the population of the state.
But it is not just Congress elections that happen on Midterm Elections, there are also a number of state Governor elections and smaller local legislative and public office elections in each US state, although I won’t be focusing on these smaller elections they are just as important as they decide what party controls local laws of a state and govern a state, so the outcome of these smaller elections gives more insight into the general feelings towards each party in a more local sense, which can also make analysis of the national result more easier to understand, although it is not always a good comparison and people can often vote very differently nationally than they do locally. For this blog when it comes to Political blogposts it’ll focus on US House, US Senate, Governor and Presidential elections specifically as well as their beforehand Primary elections which are elections where the main candidates are voted in to stand for the main election.
I do enjoy trying to predict results and to look for the reasons as to why a shock result may have happened and we have had a bunch of shock results in the Primary Elections such as the Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who knocked out the Democrat incumbent Joe Crowley in the New York 14th Congressional District House seat Democrat Primary, Andrew Gillum winning the Florida Democrat Governor Primary who is a hardliner on gun control and also wants to abolish ICE (The Federal Agency for immigration law enforcement) in its current form and Robert Pittenger’s loss to a more Conservative foe Mark Harris in the North Carolina Republican Primary for the 9th Congressional District House seat to name a few examples.
So already things are shaping up to be an exciting November 6th which is when the main US Midterm elections begin and when we’ll know who still controls what (except for the US state of Lousiana who hold their Primary elections on the 6th and then their main elections the day after). So there is lots of predictions and analysis to come as we head towards such an event. It is also being made out to be more significant due to the controversial leadership of US President Donald J. Trump, so there are more emphasis on these elections as there normally would have been under other presidencies.
So this is pretty much an introduction into the political side of my blog, I promise to try and stay as neutral as is possible but feel free to have some friendly debate, emphasis on the word, friendly, in the comments!
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