Could The Pollsters Be Missing A Red Wave Come November?

October 6, 2026

By Michael Levin | Commentary, Washington Examiner

Clip and save this op-ed, because I may be the only person in the free world predicting that in the midterm elections next month, the Republicans are going to win and win big. They’re going to hold both the House and the Senate, and they’ll even increase their margins in both chambers.

Here’s why.

Americans are sane and, as a whole, politically located slightly to the right of center. That’s a million miles from where the Democratic Party positions itself these days. The polls taken thus far represent the opinions of people who, by and large, don’t focus on elections until a few weeks before they vote. Between now and Election Day, the Republicans are going to spend half a billion dollars reminding people who the Democrats are, and worse, whom they’re in bed with.

The leaders of the Democratic Party today aren’t even Democrats. Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont caucuses with the Democrats, but technically, he’s an independent. He and his ilk have attached themselves like leeches to the Democratic Party, sucking the life out of it and terrifying mainstream Democrats into silence.

Former President Barack Obama sought to close the borders. Former President Bill Clinton forced millions of people on welfare to get jobs. 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was strongly pro-Israel. None of them could take those positions today in today’s Democratic Party. Instead, they would have to kiss the rings of empty-headed party “leaders” such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and swear fealty to ideas they know can’t work.

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