Interestingly, as expected, the various social media platforms and internet connectivity therein are sketchy and intermittent as the critical USA midterm election nears.
As we have done in the past, today we solicit reader feedback on the sentiment in/around your area as the midterm election nears. What is your local sense of the tone, voter intent, enthusiasm or lack therein, in the last 72 hours before election day on Tuesday.
This request comes with a very important and specific qualifier, DO NOT USE social media to gauge or report your sense of where things stand. The reasoning is simple; the algorithm you are exposed to is not necessarily the reality of your environment. The information being fed into the data system that holds your specific attributes, is purchased and created specifically to provide you a specific sense.
Whether you realize it or not, your algorithm is the culmination of specific identifiable definitions of your personage and your interests. That algorithm id may or may not represent you, but it is sold and used in order to influence your decision-making on a variety of aspects from commerce (purchasing decisions) to behavioral modification (influences).
As a consequence, the best view of the reality in your vicinity is what you personally experience in real life, not during your travels on the internet. With that thought in mind, what is your sense of the voting intent in/around your proximity?
From my own travels what I can identify with ease is the promoted narrative about abundant enthusiasm for leftist candidates is mostly false. I cannot identify any substantive enthusiasm to vote for the communist agenda of the Democrat Socialists or any other manufactured policy of the political left in real life.
Sure, online and in the media, there is a specific pipeline of information operating at maximum output to promote a blue wave premise. However, in real life -during my travels- I do not see that same level of enthusiasm claimed by oppositional advocates.
To the contrary, the datapoints and behavior of the political left indicate they are ‘trying’ to generate the illusion of something, as well as create some self-fulfilling prophecies. The appearances of President Obama in Detroit on behalf of Al-Sayed is an example. Obama is only deployed to get out the black vote. If the Muslim Brotherhood candidate was ahead in Michigan, Obama simply wouldn’t be there.
Additionally, the proverbial lawn sign indicators do not lend favor to a blue wave narrative.
That said, Georgia and Texas will be interesting to watch play out. Both of those states have been targeted by the various BLM, and DSA level operatives for several years. However, while they have succeeded in Georgia, they have not had a similar success in Texas – despite the lone star state being specifically vulnerable due to the Bush camp’s comfort with the larger socialist cause.
President Trump, DHS, ICE, DOJ and HSI have done all they can to trigger fear amid the professional population of election operatives who deploy fraudulent ballot operations as part of their electoral strategy. The Lawfare alliance has been spending billions to counteract this election integrity operation. It is yet to be determined which one will ultimately end up tipping the scale amid the various illegal voter systems.
What we can judge with some accuracy is the sense in our vicinity. What is the intent of our family? What do our neighbors say? What is the sense within our local community? These are measures of real sentiments that can be adequately assembled to provide a larger predictive sense.
Taking the social media network and subsequent algorithmic feed out of the equation, what is the reality of the sentiment in your area as best it can be judged?


I am a Republican precinct committeeman in Wayne County, Indiana. I have been going door-to-door on behalf of our State Senator and the entire ticket. The biggest threat in mostly Republican Indiana is Beau Bayh becoming Secretary of State. We elected an Hispanic SOC in 2022 who, according what I heard from legislators in our state, was doing a credible job on elections, but I believe being in such a high position went to his head and he made major mistakes. He purchased an expensive vehicle for his own travel, was on a trip to India when he should have been reporting to the legislature on his progress in the SOC office, hired some family members in his office, and (the last straw) hired someone who was not legally a citizen as his chief of staff. All of this was not defensible and the GOP dumped him and promoted a young DC staffer for Senator Jim Banks to replace Diego Morales. A former Republican mayor of Indianapolis also jumped into the race. as well as a Libertarian. The result is we have a very tight race. I am finding too many Republican voters saying they are leaning towards Beau Bayh to “clean things up.” The Democrats are successfully persuading people that the Republicans writ large are deep into corruption. Beau Bayh is the son of former Governor Evan Bayh, a moderate Democrat who was well-loved in Indiana. The name still has power. I( worry what could happen with Democrats in charge of our elections. Beau Bayh will advocate for mail-in voting for example, and I fear enough squishy Republicans could be intimidated by the Bayh name to support it. We must not allow Beau Bayh into the SOC job. Evan Bayh did the sane thing, using the office as a launch pad for governor. I have little doubt that is the plan here.
-I am in SC; I think Graham will win because I can’t imagine it can shift as much as they say it will, but no one really liked Lindsey Graham. When he died, we were thinking we would finally have someone else to vote for, and not his sister. I think the younger the voter, the less likely they are to vote for her.
-Listening to 98.9 talk radio in the SC upstate one day, several people called in saying their ballots switched to all Dem at two polling places, I think near Greenville.
-For my family in VA and OH, I feel like their support for Trump is being chipped away. The disappointment is growing, due to a lack of understanding of why Trump is doing what he’s doing.
“no one really liked Lindsey Graham. “
Makes me wonder why the voters of SC kept electing him…
I know. Trump did endorse him in the last two primaries, though, in 2020 and 2026.
It is the same reason those of us in Kentucky kept electing McConnell. The Republican political machine protected McConnell in the low turnout primaries, and we do not hate the rest of the county enough to elect a Democrat in the general.
St Paul, Minnesota Dash I am picking up a strong vibe of frustration with Trump. It’s all social media driven, from what I can tell. A big concern is that his family is grifting off of the United States. There’s less of the “he’s a Zionist and a puppet of Netanyahu,” but it’s still this sense that he let everybody down. I completely see it as social media driven, and bought off Podcaster (e.g., Tucker Carlson) driven. Despite all the corruption here in MN, people aren’t as angry as I think they should be about the ball grip that the DSA has on this state. I should put this on the presidential thread, but I’m flummoxed by all this talk that he and his family are grifting off of the country. On the face of it, it seems like an absurd accusation but it keeps coming up – RR Reno wrote an editorial on it in First Things (they do have neocon roots but are faithful). Is there any truth the grift claim?
Sundance asked us not to buy in to the social media hype. That is precisely what you’ve done here. If you have spent time on this site, you should already know that the Trump enrichment gift is pure hype with no evidence to support it. In fact, the opposite is true. He has lost wealth.
Here in NC the national republican committee pulled the money from Whatley which will probably hand Cooper the senate seat. I early voted. No lines and no perceived enthusiasm from anyone.
Whatley is still out there campaigning and the NRSC is a bunch of RINO asshats. My family of four voters are voting for Whatley on election day. Anyone in NC who votes for Cooper after his covid disaster is truly beyond reasoning with. I know many people who support Whatley. On another note, Cooper is 71 years old. He does have a limited amount of time left and don’t attack me for being ageist. I’m 78 and am speaking from experience.
Republican all the way in west central Florida along the Gulf. One sees an occasional old sticker for Harris still stuck to a car window. Nonetheless: Long lines at early voting sites. People that I know are terrified of the communists. I just hope my own observations have not been tainted by my hopes.
Hopefully all 3 amendments pass.
True Georgians are conservative and are flocking to the polls. We are seeing a Democrat invasion of our State. Apartment complexes springing out of nowhere, filled up with Democrat voters. We are fighting as hard as we can to defeat them. We had record breaking advance voting turnout. The natives see the writing on the wall and they are answering the call. Thank the Lord.
About 20 years ago a friend moved with his wife and small business to a small county in GA.
As a new business many folks came by to see the stranger, some were the local pols.
Come election time what a surprise to him that they were all “D”.
He called to tell me of this eyeopener.
I asked him if he ever heard of the guys with white sheets?
Then said you do realize the Peanut Farmer ex Pres only lives about 45 minutes away.
North Dallas suburbs, far east side of Denton County TX. Early voted a week ago in the late afternoon. Steady stream of other voters, but no real line though. Have seen 3 Talarico signs in my neighborhood. Not a single Paxton sign. In fact, no other signs for anyone besides those 3 Talarico ones- those same 3 homes btw all had Biden/Harris/Walz signs- so you can’t talk to those people, they’re gone . In the 2016-2024 elections, there were signs everywhere, for everyone. Not sure what to make of the subdued signage this year. Have been receiving on average about 15-20 text messages a day from all candidates over the last month to go along with the dozens of paper mailers I get in my mail box and another 20 or so daily emails. I’ve lived here since 2013 and this level of contact is way out of the norm, for me at least.
Nothing but yard signs and billboards for Democrats in my neck of Northern Ohio.
I see very few Republican signs in front yards. In my drives out in the rural areas, there is almost no support for Ohio Republican candidates. Vivek is running for Governor. I haven’t seen even a dozen signs for him in total. I think he will win Ohio, though.
I see a lot of Sherrod Brown for Senator signs. We threw him out because he was worthless for decades. Trying for a last hurrah. I hope he goes down in flames, again.
However, I’m fairly certain I know at least, where all the teachers live. They have a dozen d-rat signs in their yards.
Stay polite, say hi to your neighbors, say a prayer, and vote Republican. Tell at least a few family and friends to do same.
Cherokee county GA here. Last Friday late afternoon the line was extremely long for in person early voting at the Woodstock rec center. Like longer than two years ago. We’re pretty conservative in this county, so this kind of turnout is encouraging.
Yes, high turnout is excellent!
PDJT received 69.1% in Cherokee County in 2024.
Going to passing thru there in a week on the way to Hayesville, spend a couple weeks on the lake.
Little cooler than this summer.
I live in rural NC-11.
Only signs out in my area are D.
Chuck Edward’s debacle really screwed R’s here.
Dems are running a good ole boy from Buncombe County who has a well known farm and agriculture-business.
We voted early straight Rep.
All we can do in our area is pray!
Coastal Northern Essex County Massachusetts:
The at one time (30 years ago) politically split North Shore has devolved to something more resembling the 60-40 split in statewide politics. Still, the ‘lawn sign’ metric back in the primary in September was very interesting: in the weeks leading up, I only saw 1 sign for WEF Seth Moulton who was trounced in his attempt to un-seat Markey. Guess there was never all that much grassroots support for the one time ‘presidential candidate’.
Throughout this season of ‘No Kings’ imported from contemporary Lexington and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the border town market square rotary has become the Saturday morning protest grounds, some definitely locally attributable, though probably due to location near NH and visibility, augmented by Granite State border-crossers and city dwellers 😉 .
There has actually been significant presence of signs for Mike Minogue (Republican Governor candidate) and Micah Jones, and slow in rollout, signage for Healey and dems, though much more, than say for example, Moulton.
There are 9 questions on the ballot. Perhaps the ‘liberty’ oriented nature of Question 8 (re-criminalizing pot) and Question 9, further codifying the 2nd Ammendment stomping law put in place a couple years back may affect turnout that disfavors Democrats.
Who knows, maybe the Congressional MA 6 seat and Governor’s races might actually be somewhat competitive?
Do any other Baystate Treepers think Minogue has a wing and a prayer?
As to nearby NH, it seems dynastic politics is at play with a Shaheen off-spring running for NH-District 1: nearby Seabrook is hugely supportive of President Trump, though not sure how this will play out in the wealthy Seacoast towns.
Here in Washington we’re voting on three very important state initiatives, one to prevent democrats from imposing a nearly 10% state income tax in violation of the state constitution, another to protect against biological boys in girls sports, and a third to restore parents’ rights to protect and prevent their children from secret gender transitions by schools and the state policy of hiding those children and their whereabouts from the parents.
The state has established itself as a veritable gender-change mill for teens, especially girls. This past week a report was published revealing doctors here diagnose gender dysphoria in girls at a rate of 700% higher than other states. And no, that’s not a typo. This will be the second citizens initiative to rein in the state on this hideous practice. The first one passed, but the state simply changed its policies and doubled down in defiance. So we’re back and this time we’ll win again.
At the local level the leftists are behaving like rabid dogs in their determination to hold on to power. Their methods of vote count cheating and their continued violation of any ethical standards of conduct have become more visible thanks to the brave actions of some conservative community members and candidates, but real progress will be difficult unless and until the feds step in to help deal with the rot from the state level down.
We’re still swimming upstream against a strong current. Voter fraud remains a top concern across the state, and fortunately the DOJ is now focusing some attention on it. So we will not relent, and we will continue the work to clean out the democrat rot to recover the rule of law in our state.
The sense I get here is that Indivisible is primed and ready to go, and will be staging demonstrations accordingly: if they win they’ll be insufferable, if they lose they’ll go nuts and do very bad things. We’ll see. Hopefully it’ll rain and snow, which always suppresses their enthusiasm and willingness to show up. And if, God forbid, push should come to shove, this community has already shown its willingness and preparedness to step up, repel the outsiders and keep order. I think it’s unlikely we’ll need to.
Please keep us in your prayers.
When I first moved to Washington I volunteered to be a vote monitor. That was the 2022 election. I witnessed astounding and very concerning things and reported them to my Republican superiors. Crickets happened. Nothing. They just ignored me. I have not volunteered again as it was obviously pointless. This state is aptly called “The Communist State of Washington.” The R party here is fully RINOs.
Manhattan: Absolutely no line, and eerily quiet yesterday. Walked right in, walked out having voted 5 minutes later. In 2024, the early voting line went all the way down and around the block.
My only concern is the perception of costs and the economy by unaligned voters.
Heavy turnout in DFW: 30-60+ minutes wait at nearly every poll location all day long throughout the metroplex during early voting, which ended Friday.
BTW, there is no vote-by-mail in TX with very limited exceptions.
Here in California.. All I can do is pray. They show Governors race 61-34 Democrat. Only God knows why. Praying for a miracle!
I live in the Texas Hill Country that voted for Trump and is Conservative. With that said, people here are lazy and tend to stay home instead of going to the ballot box. On Oct 19, for the first time in the decades since I moved here, I had to wait in a long line to vote, when the election site has always been empty before. People here are getting off their rumps and voting! They are THAT afraid of Talafreako getting elected. While in the line, we all chatted about our love for Paxton and how thrilled we are to get to vote for him; although we do dislike losing him in TX to the Federal Gov’t. If other counties in TX are like mine, TalaFreako doesn’t have a chance as the average Joe is actually going to the polls this “off season” as they kept calling the election while in line referring to an election where POTUS isn’t on the ballot. I also chatted with a few of the poll workers while there. They were thrilled to see so many voters in their precinct actually voting and said they’d never experienced anything like it. Paxton is definitely winning this county.
NW Austin. Deep blue country. Only see Talarico signs; however, not anywhere near as many as the Beto signs when he ran against Cruz. Prior to Labor Day only had Talarico campaign ads. After Labor Day we are now seeing either equal if not more ads for Paxton. The PACs supporting Paxton and pointing out who Talarico actually is are running continuously. Voted early straight R. The Republican Party has been active in reaching out more than in the past.
This..
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/democrat-haley-stevens-flips-endorses-el-sayeds-republican-opponent-two-days-michigan
NW Kansas here, greater Kansas City metro area. I have seen very few signs in yards this year, for either party. This area is full of military and retired military, they tend to vote conservative. Everyone I speak to is solidly conservative. Early voting turnout is higher than normal according to the poll workers, they said it’s been pretty busy.
Edited to add:
Getting inundated with texts to vote Republican, a few for Democrats. Lots of ads on TV against Roger Marshall, and pro-Adam Hamilton. Trump and Vance both doing lots of rallies here.
WV here, tens of thousands of registered Dems have changed to registered Republicans. This Primary will be red. Only dems are in college towns or small artsy communities. No problems anticipated here as far as election interference. Folks here don’t put up with those shenanigans. Lots of Vets, Business owners, Farmers, Retirees. Majority of people here will never vote for Socialism(communism) or Jihadism.
The fact that people here see few or no Republican signs means that just like they don’t participate in polls, they value their privacy and don’t want others to know how they will vote.
Doesn’t mean a lack of excitement to vote.
MAGA don’t do ‘polls’.
On the Olympic peninsula I live on a few acres among other septuagenarians. It isn’t politics we moved here, but fed up with urban hogwash and each of us deep seeded introverts. In our little neighborhood, there’s 5 conservatives and 4 liberals and this year one of the conservatives said “I’ve retired from voting” – so if any of the measures we voted on loses by 1, I will haunt his arse for the rest of his life, esp. because he’s always complaining about taxes and WA has a big tax initiative on the so-called millionaire tax. Also a parental rights and a no men in women’s sports initiative – all a YES vote in this household. 2 of the 4 liberals live 6 mos / yr in the SW US – no idea where their residency is.
The only place I’ve seen signage is the main intersection of town. Liberal loon no kings types … funny here, the only fed race is WA-06 where Emily Randal is +24 as a D over Teresa Fox R. Doubt this area will ever go back to R what with temperate climate, homelessness, drug issues, and a haven for alt lifestyles. Living high on the hill a guy could hope for a Tsunami for taking out the trash. If I can help it, we’ll never go beyond the Hood Canal floating bridge again.
Valdosta (South Georgia) and Georgia in general have set early voting records.
In a deep blue region of IL…in my ‘hood (not Kankakee)…no yard signs. Zero zip nada other than 3 for ‘vote yes’ on a school tax.
Pritzker thinks he has it wrapped up tight.
North texas near OK border. One of the reddest counties in TX.
I voted early and it was pretty quiet.
I don’t think Talarico has near the energy from supporters that Beto had