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The '''2022 midterm elections''' were held on November 8, 2022, will determine membership in the 118th Congress for all seats in the [[United States House of Representatives]] in addition to Class III U.S. senators. A number of statewide elections were also be held, including gubernatorial races.  The top [[U.S. Senate]] races were in [[Nevada]], [[Georgia]] and [[Arizona]], where the party that wins two out of those three races will take control of the Senate and the outcomes were unresolved as of the day after the election.  More than $250 million was spent by the weekend before the election in Georgia alone, a third of which was by the candidates.<ref name="AJC">https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgias-us-senate-race-on-pace-to-be-the-nations-costliest-this-year/2KW7U2JISRCRNHHZJPRPMZKENQ/?amp;ecmp=pg&amp;amp</ref>

The '''2022 midterm elections''' were held on November 8, 2022, will determine membership in the 118th Congress for all seats in the [[United States House of Representatives]] in addition to Class III U.S. senators. A number of statewide elections were also be held, including gubernatorial races.  The top [[U.S. Senate]] races were in [[Nevada]], [[Georgia]] and [[Arizona]], where the party that wins two out of those three races will take control of the Senate and the outcomes were unresolved as of the day after the election.  More than $250 million was spent by the weekend before the election in Georgia alone, a third of which was by the candidates.<ref name="AJC">https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgias-us-senate-race-on-pace-to-be-the-nations-costliest-this-year/2KW7U2JISRCRNHHZJPRPMZKENQ/?amp;ecmp=pg&amp;amp</ref>

Tens of millions of dollars were spent by [[Big Weed]] to legalize recreational [[cannabis]] in the [[Midwest]], but three of four states there voted it down:  [[Arkansas]], [[North Dakota]], and [[South Dakota]].  It narrowly passed in only [[Missouri]] and also, by a wider margin, in [[liberal]] [[Maryland]].

Tens of millions of dollars were spent by [[Big Weed]] to legalize recreational [[cannabis]] in the [[Midwest]], but three of four states there voted it down by landslide margins:  [[Arkansas]], [[North Dakota]], and [[South Dakota]].  This stunning defeat of [[Big Weed]] may effectively ends its movement to legitimize [[marijuana]] nationwide.  It narrowly passed in only [[Missouri]] and also, by a wider margin, in ultra-[[liberal]] [[Maryland]].

The [[Democrat]] majority in Congress was ousted by voters despite their [[ballot harvesting]] and vastly outspending [[Republican]] candidates.  The [[liberal]] FiveThirtyEight lamented that most [[Republican]]s running against the [[election fraud]] of 2020 would win.<ref>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-candidates-who-think-2020-was-rigged-was-are-probably-going-to-win-in-november/</ref>  Only in the final week did FiveThirtyEight begin to predict a [[GOP]] takeover of the [[U.S. Senate]], based on a prediction that [[Herschel Walker]] and [[Paul Laxalt]] would oust [[Dem]] incumbents.

The [[Democrat]] majority in Congress was ousted by voters despite their [[ballot harvesting]] and vastly outspending [[Republican]] candidates.  The [[liberal]] FiveThirtyEight lamented that most [[Republican]]s running against the [[election fraud]] of 2020 would win.<ref>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-candidates-who-think-2020-was-rigged-was-are-probably-going-to-win-in-november/</ref>  Only in the final week did FiveThirtyEight begin to predict a [[GOP]] takeover of the [[U.S. Senate]], based on a prediction that [[Herschel Walker]] and [[Paul Laxalt]] would oust [[Dem]] incumbents.