Our Taylor Swift tickets may be gone, but the Senate is ours.

Republicans, look what you made us do: vote! And in some states, that’s not an easy task! Yet, an examination of the election results clearly shows that despite historical trends pointing towards a Republican victory, voters chose to trust Democrats on issues that were important to them. Red Wave? Don’t know her.

Look, we may have secured the Senate, but it’s still been a hard week. Some of us didn’t get the presale code, and that’s fine, we prepared for that. So we called every family member, friend, pediatrician, the woman at European Wax Center, ex-situationship, etc. to find out if they had a Capital One card. And by the time we had a sweet, sweet Capital One number in our hands, Taylor Swift tickets had sold out once again and Ticketmaster had canceled the rest of the sale.

All this to say, Ticketmaster is a monopoly that needs to be reined in, just like Amazon, Facebook, and many other Big Tech companies. Which party is going to do that? Democrats! Which party won the Senate, largely thanks to young voters? Democrats! Taylor is so proud of you 😊

In our post-election report, Data for Progress finds that young voters trusted Democrats on top policy priorities, such as reproductive rights, climate change, and student loan debt. 61% of young voters trusted Democrats over Republicans on climate change and the environment and 60% of young voters trusted Democrats over Republicans on abortion and women’s reproductive rights.

We also found that the top issues for voters included the economy, abortion, climate change, and gun control. Voters also preferred messaging about addressing price gouging, rather than cutting public benefits to address rising costs. 83% of voters support increasing social security benefits and cracking down on companies that price-gouge.

These concerns were reflected in Democratic messaging throughout the midterms and helped lead the Democrats to victory. We found that registered voters were receptive to messages on the economy, infrastructure, and social security. Of the 33 overperforming Democratic messages, 18 mentioned economic conditions in some way.

So yeah, Ticketmaster may have ruined our lives just a little bit, but Democrats won the Senate, so things are looking up. Now if Chuck Schumer can get us all floor seats, we would really appreciate it.

You can read our post-election report here.

Here are some other highlights from DFP this week:

When prices go high, Republicans go towards generally bad economic ideas.

So, we can only assume that you’ve heard of this little thing called inflation. Unless, of course, you’ve been living on a space shuttle or you’ve spent the last year in a coma. In that case, welcome back, a dozen eggs cost $8.79 at Whole Foods.

Our post-midterm polls show that voters were very aware of inflation and the state of the economy in general. In fact, 89% of voters were concerned about inflation, including 80% of Democrats, 88% of Independents, and 95% of Republicans. However, this didn’t impact Democrats at the polls the way some people assumed. 62% of voters said the impact of the pandemic was responsible for inflation and 52% of voters held large corporations responsible for price gouging and taking advantage of consumers.

As they should! Corporations have a bad habit of being greedy but haven’t we all suffered enough? Why are we forced to pay $7.99 for strawberries that will be covered in fuzz by the time we remember that they’re in the back of our fridge, hidden behind the boxed wine we impulse purchased for election night?

While voters are rightfully concerned about their personal finances and the economy, our post-midterm polls show that they trust Democratic policies to lower prices. 89% of voters support investing in domestic manufacturing and 87% of voters support raising social security benefits.

Republicans may have spun the narrative that President Biden made inflation worse through government action, however, voters clearly disagree and they proved that at the polls. Sorry Mitch McConnell, don’t bother changing your business cards.

Read the full blog and polling here.

Voters are in favor of placing limits on solitary confinement.

States and localities have been taking steps towards ending or restricting the use of solitary confinement and the federal government is now following suit.

Data for Progress finds that a majority of bipartisan voters are in favor of ending prolonged solitary confinement, banning solitary confinement entirely for certain categories of people, and opposing the use of solitary for some of the more problematic routine reasons, among other related measures.

64% of voters support a 4-hour solitary confinement limit, including 78% of Democrats, 61% of Independents, and 51% of Republicans.

Voters are also in favor of the Department of Justice creating a new office to investigate corruption and mismanagement in U.S. prisons. 86% of votes support the creation of the new office, including 94% of Democrats, 84% of Independents, and 78% of Republicans.

It’s crucial that we improve the treatment of prisoners in the United States and restricting solitary confinement will be an important step in the right direction.