It is said that time seems to move faster as we get older. In some ways, I think that has been true for me. I wake up on a Jan. 1 and the next thing I know we are celebrating New Year’s Eve. But 2022 has not moved so quickly. It has seemed interminable.
Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano’s bid for governor wasn’t exactly an effort many of his fellow Republican candidates were looking to emulate. He oversaw a campaign that shunned the mainstream media, spent little on traditional advertising and didn’t raise much cash to do so.
Whichever party the midterm election ends up putting in charge of the U.S. Senate and House, the failure of a widely predicted red wave to overwhelm Democrats was thanks in no small measure to abortion.
I don’t have the post-election blues. And it isn’t because all my candidates of choice won. Because they didn’t. It’s not because the measures I voted for passed. Because not all of them did.
Waves of religious groups are mustering passionate get-out-the-vote efforts in the final hours before the heated midterm elections, with clergy pushing the faithful to the polls in ways that stand to aid both Republicans and Democrats.