Biden

Joe Biden may have won the election, but Democrats lost the election.  Although the country will not have to deal with Donald Trump there are serious problems that will require government solutions.  Unfortunately, with Republicans in charge of the Senate, there is very little chance competence in government will follow Biden’s inauguration.  For the eight years of the Obama Presidency Senate Republicans have never shown any of the skills associated with competency.  Competent governing was not a hallmark of the McConnell under the Trump administration either.  And to make matters even worse on the surface, the mid-term elections scheduled for 2022 do not look any more favorable for a Democratic controlled Senate either.  In actual fact the Senate vote in 2020 was heavily weighted towards Republicans with Republican Senate candidates receiving 38,328,029 votes while Democrats running for Senate could only amass 36,328,726     votes.  In other words Republicans outvoted Democrats by 1,999,303 votes.  The 2022 Senate midterm will favor Republicans as more Democratic Senate seats will come up for reelection in 2022 and as a general rule the midterm elections typically do not favor the President’s party.  So, Joe Biden’s term in office is very likely to be forced to deal with even more obstruction than the Obama Presidency if that is possible and that does not bode well for either a scientific end to Covid-19, an effective solution towards solving global warming, the necessary fixes to the ACA, or a real recovery from the economic disasters caused by a combination of Trump incompetence and Covid-19.  McConnell may get his wish to make a Democrat a one-term President.