An unprecedented surge in Black voter turnout across the American South is fundamentally reshaping the 2026 midterm political landscape. This massive, highly localized mobilization is defying traditional non-presidential voting patterns and threatening to turn what was expected to be a standard midterm election cycle into a “Blue Tsunami” for Democrats, breaking open what were previously considered safe Republican strongholds.
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It’s also all the fucking gerrymandering – the harder you gerrymander, the thinner your margins get in the ‘winning’ districts.
Specifically if there is a higher than expected turnout or swing you can overflow and lose more seats than if you haven’t gerrymandered.