2026 Midterm Discussions (Polls, updates, and more)

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As an American living through one of the worst financial and social crises of our generation I'm consuming a TON of midterm related content from half a dozen podcasters, legacy media, and independent research. Every now and then I find something I'd like to talk about but isn't necessarily thread worthy so I'm making a hub thread  

Not all 2026 midterm threads will be merged here, results can be their own thread in November, but polls, updates, stories, coverage, etc can go here so we can all collectively froth at the mouth and wonder how political polarization is so rampant that there is a state where the race is a tossup between a squeaky clean young Christian man and a decrepit old sociopath who was literally impeached and removed from office by his own party for being too corrupt.

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I'll probably spruce up the OP to make it pretty later if I feel like it

But for now, I wanted to note some interesting polling that has Talarico up by 6 in Texas with significant crossover votes from Republicans (backed up by the fact that Republicans are polling 5pts+ ahead in every down ballot race).

Our boy is winning Whites below 50, blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, women, basically everyone but old white folks.

I just finished listening to this (I have 9 hours a day to fill with podcasts help). The dude on the right says he got about ten minutes to interview Talarico after an event in a deeply conservative town and Talarico doubled down that what we're seeing atm isn't simply a rebuttal of Trump, it's a generational shift because the youngest among us were the first to grow up in a world where we actually didn't expect anything to get better. We're the generations that are tired of the "left vs right" when we've realized for a while the REAL fight is "top 1% vs bottom 99%".

Bernie Sanders stuff but said by a cute church boy so Texas eats it up  

Also poll related:

El-Sayed is leading in Michigan again. Seems the brutal primary blood is washing off a bit (and Haley Stevens is going to Israel on a honeymoon or some sh*t, you cannot make this stuff up lmao)

Bro in that video I posted is saying to keep an eye on KANSAS of all places. Not that we'll win it but that deep red states are becoming competitive.

Democrats are leading in ARKANSAS polls  we're almost certainly not winning there but it just shows how strong the wind at our backs really is.

Democrats are now leading the generic polls by double digits. The last time that happened was in 2006 during the Bush administration and it was a bloodbath for Republicans.

K, that's all I wanted to ramble about for now

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OH and the fights of the moment are corruption, flock cameras, data centers, affordability, Israel, and the dumb war in Iran so if Democrats could stop allowing themselves to be smeared by having an approximate stance near Hasan Piker, stop punching left, and stop our dumbass minority leader from saying "wellllll we don't neeeeeed Michigan for senate majority"

THAT'D BE F*CKING GREAT