Fundamentals, from COVID to crime, favor Republicans

By Michael Barone

Published October 19, 2022 5:07pm ET

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Fundamentals, from COVID to crime, favor Republicans — A man votes on the only machine working shortly after polls opened in Georgia's Senate runoff elections at a senior center, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Acworth, Ga. Election systems in the U.S. are vulnerable to cyber intrusions similar to the one that hit federal agencies and numerous businesses last year and remain a potential target for foreign hacking, according to a report released Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. | (Branden Camp/AP)

If Democrats take a drubbing in the off-year elections — and it seems increasingly likely, but not certain, that they will — it will be because they lost their moorings when the country seemed to go crazy, with excessive COVID closedowns and irrational obsessions about systemic racism.

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