For the last few months, Republicans have been predicting a "Red Wave" (would have gone with Crimson Tide, personally) in this election. Part of this is just strategy — if you act overconfident and talk about how much everyone loves you and wants what you are selling, people will usually just go along with you out of sheer laziness — but many of them also seem to have really believed it and were quite shocked when it, sadly, did not come to pass.

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Fox News's Jeanine Pirro was heartbroken to discover that while she thought people would be voting on "the economy, inflation, crime" — none of which are problems that electing Republicans would solve — many of them were actually voting on abortion. She shouldn't have been too surprised by this, however, because "the economy, inflation, crime" are the things Republicans started focusing on and insisting this election was about after Roe v. Wade was overturned and it was widely speculated that it would make things difficult for Republicans this November.

Of course, abortion is also an economic issue, as having a child is a very big economic decision. Some people like to forget that.

Now some of them are already hashing out new strategies for winning upcoming elections. Given that almost the entire country is gerrymandered within an inch of its life to favor Republicans, some of those strategies are pretty, uh, creative.