As less engaged voters participate in additional elections, will turnout necessarily drift to the right? Has someone smarter than me (could be anyone!) already figured this out? Help me @pkrugman.bsky.social or @hankgreen.bsky.social, you’re (not my) only hope.

I want to be excited about the blue wave but off-year elections get way smaller turnouts than midterms or presidential elections. I worry these voters are self-selected towards the left. If you paid enough attention to vote in 2025, maybe you’ve already been affected by reality’s liberal bias?