2026 Midterm Elections

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Calheel said:
But I think the point Harry is making is that seniors are much more likely to vote in an off year election than young people.
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Yes indeed

But I think this is an atypical off year election given the last 2 years. Typically Dems don't show up to vote in off year elections but GQPers do turn out.
The off year elections so far suggest to me that Dems and even young voters are amped and senior GQPers are not.

But who knows ? Maybe the war on Iran will end tomorrow, gas prices will return to $2/gallon, and inflation will be at 2% come November. Maybe Pope Leo and Trump will have a kumbaya moment and conservative Catholics will rush to the polls to vote for GQP candidates come November.

At this point Harry's historical point doesn't trouble me, but again taking back the Senate , while possible, will not be easy no matter what...
 
heelinhell said:
Yes indeed

But I think this is an atypical off year election given the last 2 years. Typically Dems don't show up to vote in off year elections but GQPers do turn out.
The off year elections so far suggest to me that Dems and even young voters are amped and senior GQPers are not.

But who knows ? Maybe the war on Iran will end tomorrow, gas prices will return to $2/gallon, and inflation will be at 2% come November. Maybe Pope Leo and Trump will have a kumbaya moment and conservative Catholics will rush to the polls to vote for GQP candidates come November.

At this point Harry's historical point doesn't trouble me, but again taking back the Senate , while possible, will not be easy no matter what...
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Yeah, I definitely think Democrats will show up for the midterms this year in big numbers, and in nearly every special election we've seen last year and this year there's been a big swing, even in some deep-red districts, towards Democratic candidates, although in solid red districts it's obviously still not enough to win.

I think the bigger question is if and how the Trump administration or state GOP governments will try to screw with the voting and election process. The Supreme Court is already likely going to agree to allow state governments to no longer count votes that arrive after election day in the mail, and my guess is that there are other similar schemes to try and rig the election on the way. But in terms of people being interested in and fired up to vote Democratic this year, I don't think that's going to be the problem.
 
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