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Mister Ed

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8. I'm also hopeful that outrage over the gutting of the Voting Rights Act might cause the GOP to lose the Senate.

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2026, 10:05 AM

Yesterday

That outrage may drive millions of normally-complacent voters to the polls when they might have otherwise skipped the midterms.

Statewide elections can't be gerrymandered. Close Senate elections that might otherwise have gone to the GOP candidate might go the other way instead.

To prevent that, the GOP will likely try to employ increasingly heavy-handed voter suppression methods, which might stir more voter outrage. May justice and democracy prevail.