A new political science paper making extensive use of data collected by The Downballot! From @charlesrhunt.com -->

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Basically all my findings point to a monster year for Democrats. 1) Special election overperformance compared to the eventual House overperformance in the popular vote is directionally more predictive in midterm than presidential years. 2026 outpaces any other recent year, including 2018.

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it is the same exact thing as demanding that black candidates for office “disavow farrakhan,” which happened quite a bit in the 90s and 2000s

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The Republican pearl clutching is obvious bullshit, but it's going to be instructive to see which reporters go along with it.

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The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.

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