In explaining the American midterm election results, pollsters and analysts have argued that the switch from Republican Red to Democrat Blue was the result of voters who previously voted Republican in 2024 showing up in great numbers to vote Democrat in the 2026 midterms. On the surface, this makes no sense. If true, this would represent a rare and direct reversal of the normal developmental pattern of political discernment and maturity - from Left to Right, not from Right to Left.

For example, in describing his own personal conversion from Left to Right, our guest Jim McMurtry briefly contrasts his Canadian experience with having once been a federal Liberal Party candidate with his most recent candidacy for the PPC federally, and for One BC provincially. His story is a classic illustration of the old saying that "if you aren't a liberal when you're young, you haven't got a heart, but if you're still a liberal when you've matured, then you haven't got a mind."

The repetitive chorus citing the issues most responsible for the switch from Right to Left - "End the war; focus on the cost of living; put America first; change our relationship with Israel" - is reminiscent of the propaganda spewed during the Covid crisis that was repeated verbatim by virtually all media outlets. But as a justification for the described switch from Red to Blue, it is both contradictory and illogical.

Most curiously, missing from current election result conversations is the singular issue raised following each of the last electoral outcomes: the degree of election rigging and voter fraud. Indeed, neither Donald Trump nor J.D. Vance have thus far contested the election results and have not even hinted at electoral fraud or rigging.

While one can acknowledge that a certain percentage of voters will actually have been influenced by the propaganda chorus, this does not account for the statistical size of the so-called Blue Tsunami, especially in light of recent voting shifts and given the consistent history of electoral rigging by Democrats.

As a few voices have suggested, there is a reason for that missing discussion and it's not what most might expect. Let's just say that It may be some time yet before we really understand the dynamics of the 2026 election in a way that is Just Right - and for the Right.