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Where do you get your midterms coverage? Is your seat an interesting one? Please tell me about it! (hexbear.net)
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Basically, I'm due to interview a a polls/elections guru about the midterms a couple days after the polls close.

He's very nitty gritty and will talk about specifics of gerrymandering and so on, it's more or less my job to rein him in so he talks about the juiciest bits before the audience tunes out.

I'm not American, so to watch the midterms as they come in I'd have to stay up beyond midnight, and obviously no one really talks about it here either in more than vague terms, so please enlighten me!

Obviously I've done a fair amount of research already, the problem is sorting which are the most interesting without an actual ear to the ground. America is a very big place.

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[–] 3 points 2 hours ago

You should look at the ballot measures of each state. Ballot measures allow the voters to directly vote on a policy rather than voting on a representative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_ballot_measures

Since this is a midterm election and not a presidential election, there is expected to be less voter turnout. Some people only care to vote for the President. Trump has repeatedly told his followers "Vote like I'm on the ballot". By this, he means that he wants more people who voted for him to show up for this election.

Maybe the ballot measures which are chosen to be on midterm ballots are different in character to ballot measures which appear on presidential election ballots because of the expected voter turnouts.

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