Can someone explain to me what this means for USA? (I'm not from USA and am not familiar with the system) To me, USA has a guide-only vote because the actual vote it's not by the people but by Electoral College which means the people don't actually vote. They vote for someone hoping that the elector will vote like them in turn, it's a trust me bro kind of situation.
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We can't make it that easy, so here's the shorthand version:
The Electoral College is ONLY for the Presidential election (every 4 years), which is in 2028, so it's not relevant for this election. 2026 is called a Midterm Election, and it's for all the members of the House of Representatives (every 2 years) and some members of the Senate (every 6 years), and then a bunch of state and local races for governor, mayor, dog catcher, etc.
House of Representatives Reps, represent 400+ districts around the country, which is why they can't just rig the election like last time. There is a LOT of controversy about how these district boundary lines are drawn, called Gerrymandering, which allows for a lot of manipulation, and can be responsible for crazy election results. Trump has been demanding that states draw new district boundaries that would favor him, but most of them have been rejected by the states, the voters, or the courts.
Gerrymandering is a very complex and confusing science, far too much too discuss here. So while the House doesn't have to deal with the Electoral College, they have their own weird system to navigate.
There are 50 senators, 2 per state, and they are chosen by a pure popular vote of each state. They are probably the most fair election in our Federal system.
There are some anomalies in state and local elections, but they tend to be straight popular votes.
Ok, I think I get it.
The USA president is elected every 4 years by the Electoral College.
The Midterm Elections are for everyone else basically that are supporting the president in the first 2 years and then hopefully the elections are good enought so he can get support for another 2 years. And writing this, it seems that if he get suppport for another 2 years after the midterms, there is an increased chance of the next president to be of the same party.? Weird
You're getting there, but I caution you to not go too deep down the rabbit hole, it will make you crazy.
There's a weird thing that happens with Midterms. When a new president takes over, the opposing party often gets motivated late, and goes on the attack in the Midterms, often resulting in the President losing control of the House, causing massive headaches for the next 2 years, and threatening his reelection.
This was big after Obama's win, with Republicans (the Tea Party, proto-MAGAs) flipping the House in a big way. In 2022, Trump expected a Republican landslide due only to history alone, and was really pissed when the historical trend didn't pan out.
So here we are in the classic situation - a very unpopular president going into the Midterm with every reason to believe he's facing bloodbath. It is very likely that the House will flip, and perhaps even the Senate, which was thought to be safe a few months ago, but is now facing a legitimate threat.
Trump could lose BOTH Legislative Chambers, who both have investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers. He will certainly have no chance of passing any legislation that allows him to stick around for another term.
Right, that's why there's so much emphasis on middterms. Fingers crossed he gets arrested. Haven't seen so much corruption out of Africa and South America since the early 90's.
Next level shit.
Well, I suppose we should be grateful this is happening early enough for a court challenge to play out instead of a last minute EO that will just make be followed automatically by red and purple (with red governors/AGs) states.
But no doubt the timing is because there are twelve additional fascist election moves in Trump/Miller's playbook, any of which can subvert the election, and they're just giving themselves time to run down the list.
Primaries and referendums are happening right the fuck now though. I just voted by mail here in VA regarding the temporary redistricting thing. He might be trying to throw a wrench in any blue redistricting that's in response to Texas and whatever other red gerrymandering is happening.
America isn't even teetering on the precipice anymore. We're tumbling down a jagged cliffside, and 1/3 thinks that it's a good thing actually, 1/3 says holy fuck we need to curl up in a ball and try to survive, and the last 1/3 has been convinced by the first third that both sides are the same and also there's nothing they can do and also did you hear what Jennifer Lawrence said about that thing you mildly care about but will pretend to care deeply about when you hear how she blasted it?
America's day in the sun is done and dusted. We're irrelevant. We were able to bluff relevance for the past few decades, but the facade has fallen. We're not militarily impressive. We don't do anything. Korea won, then Vietnam won, then the terrorists won, and now China has won. The best we can hope for at this point is avoiding total collapse.
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Take that, states rights!
And there it is
I hope this doesn't get removed because any time I bring this up I get called an "election denier". But there is legitimate evidence that both the 2020 and 2024 election was tampered with. This has been determined by statisticians. Not conspiracy theorist. There is statistical evidence. Furthermore. The evidence shows vote manipulation occuring on non-mail-in-vote tabulators only.
The statisticians concluded the reason Trump did not win 2020 was because most votes were mail-in and were not altered like the in-person votes were. Due to covid.
And that the in-person voting tabulator machines showed the same voter manipulation in both 2020 and 2024. Also similar to Russians. And. That the machines were designed to not flag for recounts. Which is why trump won every single swing state with no recount. (Recounts are triggered by a ratio of vote difference exceeding a certain number. (Somewhere around 65% but I can't recall the exact number atm).
Because Trump has done all this b.s about saying he actually won 2020, any time anyone questions if vote tampering took place, people assume they are agreeing that trump actually won. I'm saying he didn't win either. He tried to cheat at both but was foiled by mail in voting in 2020 due to covid.
The statisticians said this almost a year ago and said he would target mail in voting because it's harder to manipulate.
The statisticians are The Election Truth Alliance.
They have many videos on YouTube and Instagram explaining the stats and what they show. But I'll break it down simple for you even if math isn't your strongest subject.
Distributions and frequency.
When you have a lot of data , a normal distribution occurs.
For instance if I took all mens height and put it on a frequency chart with the middle being the mean. And the higher up the bar , the more people there were with that height, what happens is a normal distribution. It looks like a symmetrical hill.
This is a law of nature that is almost always true with a few exceptions.
Distributions will not be "normal" when there is not very many data points. For example I measure 10 mens height. I may or may not get a normal symmetrical distribution .
Another way a distribution will be abnormal is if a portion of the data points (people) have been influenced by something specific but the rest have not been. We call this "systematic influence".
An example.
I measure 100 mens heights from Canada and Dominican Republic. (100 from each).
Because men in the Dominican Republic are currently having a rough time and growing up with less food and nutrition, they will be shorter.
So if I put all of these men on a frequency distribution graph, the Dominican men would skew the distribution to the left but because most other men are not being affected by childhood famine, what you might see is two distributions. A bi-nomial distribution.
This is a systematic influence that can be determined pretty easily.
If the distribution is just skewed off to the side, something has to have influenced it. It's unnatural. That's the important thing to understand.
Something external influenced the data if it's not normal symmetrical. Especially with a high number of data points (over 100 should easily be normal).
Okay that's all you need to understand about frequency distributions to understand the election truth Alliance videos. 
Also IQ is often displayed as a normal distribution if that helps.
https://m.youtube.com/@ElectionTruthAlliance
Also Trump said he cheated multiple times. Literally said musk cheated for him.
He also had the lowest starting approval rate in history.
Too many coincidences.
Talk about a whitelist . . .