He deserves far more credit than he gets from anyone except...voters.

[kpete]

Credit to POTUS.
This is no accident. Biden has also had the most productive first two years in office of any president since FDR.
He deserves far more credit than he gets from anyone except…voters.
Joe Biden becomes the first President since FDR in 1934 to not lose a single Senate seat of his own party during a midterm election.

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=fV0DTo7ZeZCUWo512drFzg

[underpants]

1. Can I throw in Stacey Abrams too?

She made a huge difference in Georgia and in the face of long-standing generational suppression.

[kpete]

2. Stacey Abrams

She is truly a force for good.
peace,
kp

[a kennedy]

5. I know, and damn wanted her to be Governor.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

22. That's such a tough get. Going against kemp

Does that prick term out eventually?

I think she could win in an open seat race.

Third time might really be a charm. If anyone deserves it she does.

[ananda]

10. Yes you can! Stacey is great!

I wish she'd come fix Texas.

[TigressDem]

3. Joe is doing a great job. However, it's the VOTERS who made this happen.

WE THE PEOPLE voted JOE into the Presidency.

WE THE PEOPLE voted WARNOCK into the SENATE.

MAYBE this is more a sign that WE THE PEOPLE have to be scared shitless of the results of NOT VOTING in order to make these kind of numbers happen.

And maybe now that we KNOW when more people vote DEMS win, that will be the new way of the World.

[lefthandedskyhook]

9. WE THE PEOPLE...

still have a lot of work to do and you are absolutely correct!

[TigressDem]

11. BUT because of Joe and a lot of other hardcore DEM leaders, we have the chance to do it.

Every time we get a leader who is so boring that comedians have to get creative to make fun of them.... I relax.

THE GROWNUPS are in charge again. Getting the work done and not whining about it. JUST DOING IT.


I WISH that the Republicans would elect people that would just come to work and do the job they were elected to do and not try to destroy government.

I MEAN the whole drown the government in a bathtub ideology should not be allowed to be a party platform.

We need Congress Critters that want laws that work, not saboteurs working to make laws that benefit the few and put the rest of us into poverty.

[lefthandedskyhook]

12. I used to have very good friends...

who were decent and honorable republican veterans. They are all dead now. They would be horrified by the party now.

RIP

[Prairie_Seagull]

24. Cool metaphorical moniker.

[Trueblue Texan]

31. I agree....

however, if Joe Biden hadn't been so successful, Democratic candidates would have had a much tougher time. We need to continue our work, no matter how tired we all are.

[delisen]

15. We do need to credit ourselves as voters who make democracy nt

[2naSalit]

4. A BFD!

[LakeArenal]

6. Yep.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Joe got more done in 2 years than anyone could have imagined

He got 3 massive bills passed that each would have been a crowning accomplishment for any President's full term, and most Presidents' 8 years. And 1 of them was bipartisan.

He got 2 other sizeable bipartisan pieces of legislature passed that would have been the signature achievements for a lot of Presidents in the Vet Burn Bill and the Chips act.

That's 5 large or massive bills passed in 2 short years, each would be enough to run for re-election on. And then there were several dozen smaller bipartisan bills that incrementally improved things too.

And then he led his party to the best mid terms for a party in power in almost 100 years.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE JOE BIDN! Just wait, the next 2 years he's going to find a way to get more done for the American people than anyone could hope for, and he'll do it by cutting deals with the GOP so this will be bipartisan. You ain't seen nothing yet, Joe is a pro, no one knows more about getting things done than him.

Immigration reform, watch it happen.

Big gains on foreign policy and engaging with the world on climate change, watch it happen.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. Love the optimism! It's is well placed, I agree! Obama speech on werewolf or vampire, final

nail in the coffin!?

I will never forget.

[Prairie_Seagull]

25. Wait, wait, but he got every single warewolf vote.

[chriscan64]

26. He would have got more werewolf votes

except that the full moon isn't until tonight. The election was rigged by having it one day before.

[Scalded Nun]

13. Agreed on what Joe has done. Cannot just blame the voters.

Let us not forget that these results are in spite of flagrant gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts by the GOP.

[dchill]

17. Yep. And we still beat them. In Georgia!

[jmowreader]

19. Gerrymandering wouldn't have changed the Senate result

You can’t gerrymander a Senate race. Those are statewide.

[TigressDem]

20. IF we had not GOTV, yes, it could have. THIS was a HUGE uphill battle.

Princeton evaluates Redistricting Maps using consistent protocols to evaluate the amount of partisan influence.

EVEN with an overall grade of C - there were still several areas that rethugs rigged

Packed Wins? 10.2% favoring R

Mean-Median? +7.7% R

Partisan Bias? +14.3% R


THE HISTORIC TURNOUT OF EARLY VOTERS DURING A SHORTENED WINDOW SLAMMED THE DOOR IN WALKER'S FACE.

Early in person 1,716,541 votes (49%) Top Candidate Warnock D

Election day 1,629,283 votes (46%) Top Candidate Walker R

Early by mail 186,465 votes (5%) Top Candidate Warnock D


https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card?planId=recZwpVm5Uz1GESnV

Georgia 2021 Final Republican Congressional Map

Overall Grade C

Partisan Fairness C
Republican advantage.

Competitiveness C

Similarly competitive relative to other maps that could have been drawn
Geographic Features C
Compact districts, typical number of county splits

A: Good for the category
B: Better than average for the category, but bias still exists
C: Average for the category, could be better, but also could be worse
F: Poor for the category, could be much better

[Joinfortmill]

14. Joe's the man

[SheltieLover]

16. Joe is our modern day FDR!

I've always felt this.

[jmowreader]

18. It's more historic than that

Has there ever been a president to increase his Senate majority at his first midterm? Senator-elect Fetterman’s seat currently has a Republican in it.

[dsc]

23. Trump did

He lost the House, big time, but he gained two Senate seats.

[Demsrule86]

27. They won in Florida, North Dakota and Missouri...all red states.

[FakeNoose]

21. Barack Obama also campaigned in Georgia - credit where it's due

I think our Dem leaders ALL understood how important it was for Sen. Warnock to win the runoff.

We'll probably never know how much work Stacey Abrams did. I'm sure she was key.

[summer_in_TX]

28. Correction to the widely celebrated claim

that Biden was the only Dem president since FDR in 1934 to not lose any Senate seats.

But JFK has to be included in that.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/seats-congress-gainedlost-the-presidents-party-mid-term-elections

[judesedit]

29. Go Joe! I'm with you.

[moniss]

30. There are a couple of different posts/articles

that list the accomplishments of Biden and it is very impressive considering the obstruction of the GQP and Manchin. I have one link that covers the first year. I hope the same outfit updates at the end of the month for this year.
https://whatbidenhasdone.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/year-one-what-biden-has-done-mega-thread/

[The Jungle 1]

32. I always felt he did not think Obama was moving fast enough.

I can't put anything behind that statement but feelings.

[DFW]

33. You echo the chorus of the Balld of Joe Biden

You got to know when you’re older
You know to be bolder
Know that your decisions linger
After you’re long gone

[The Jungle 1]

35. That was cool thanks

[DFW]

36. It was the best I could do on short notice

And by the time I finished it, it was too late for them to use in the election campaign anyway. Maybe they can use it in the re-election campaign.

[Stuart G]

34. Joe Biden knows the show, produced the show, and "IS THE SHOW."