Midterms

As partisans and pundits digested the shock of the 2022 midterm elections on Wednesday, some new themes emerged. Finger-pointing among Republicans.

[Georgia](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-georgia.html), for instance, 1,941,499 voters chose Raphael Warnock, the Democrats’ nominee for Senate. [New Hampshire](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-new-hampshire.html), whose flinty voters pride themselves on being less partisan than [the average bear](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCx1j8WsHU). [rejected Republican candidates for statewide offices](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/politics/trump-election-candidates-voting.html) who had sown doubts about the 2020 election. Others, like Massachusetts and Nevada, had already protected the practice. In a deeply partisan age, it was one of the election’s most striking developments. As of Wednesday evening, 2,462,615 votes had been counted for Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor who lost his race to Lt. “Candidate quality” can be a nebulous concept — the kind of thing where you know it when you see it. For the second Election Day in a row, election night ended without a clear winner. Trump the keys to the election machinery itself. And a more nuanced picture on the impact of abortion. It was clear that many in the G.O.P. As partisans and pundits digested the shock of the 2022 midterm elections on Wednesday, some new themes emerged.