{"id":1028,"date":"2026-06-06T15:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:31:52","slug":"midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-260606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-260606\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterms: Get Out of Your Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s plenty of outrage so we aren’t going to do that. Instead, we’re creating a place with new tips, tools, insights, sources, and stories that can help us understand how to win this November.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tech bros have become comic book villains \u2014 but don\u2019t mistake the spectacle for weakness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kara Swisher joins Tim Miller on The Bulwark<\/a>\u00a0to call out Bezos, Musk, and Andreessen as people who\u2019ve figured out exactly how cheap it is to buy and manipulate our president. The good news is their electoral track record is already wobbling: in Tuesday\u2019s California primaries, Silicon Valley\u2019s hand-picked candidates cratered. Tech-backed San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan failed to crack the top five in the governor\u2019s race, and startup founder Ethan Agarwal lost badly to Rep. Ro Khanna. As the\u00a0SF Standard<\/a>\u00a0put it: \u201cSorry, Silicon Valley \u2014 it isn\u2019t that easy to buy an election.\u201d Big money and cultural buzz didn\u2019t close the deal when voters showed up. Let\u2019s keep it that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The MAGA coalition isn\u2019t breaking \u2014 but it\u2019s softening, and in a midterm where turnout math rules, that\u2019s an opening.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new NBC News poll shows Trump\u2019s strong approval among self-identified MAGA voters dropped 8 points since April \u2014 the largest single-group decline in the survey \u2014 while overall approval sits at 42%. This isn\u2019t a collapse, and we shouldn\u2019t treat it like one. The strategic signal is subtler and more valuable: the voters we need to flip and depress aren\u2019t ideologues \u2014 they\u2019re people who voted Republican because they believed it would deliver, and it hasn\u2019t. Read more on where these voters are going. Stay home or flip, the math works either way. That\u2019s the message we take into every competitive district on our list.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 60 Minutes firings aren’t just about Bari Weiss or 60 Minutes \u2014 it\u2019s about who now owns the whole media empire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might be thinking the latest CBS firings and drama are a problem for Bari Weiss. You’d be wrong- she’s delivering exactly what she was hired for. The Ellison family installed Bari Weiss at CBS News to do one thing – get on Trump’s good side. That’s because the Ellison’s are pending regulatory approval to take over CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros Discovery, an unprecedented consolidation that prompted Pete Hegseth to say at a press conference: \u201cThe sooner David Ellison takes over CNN, the better.\u201d\u00a0The media scope of what\u2019s being built is daunting and Nonprofit Quarterly details why.\u00a0<\/a>But don’t forget: only about 25% of voters are reachable through standard TV. The midterms’ moveable voters \u2014 the ones we need to win \u2014 aren\u2019t watching CBS or cable news. They\u2019re on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. We need to watch the media takeover but remember, the fight for the narrative isn\u2019t happening at CBS. It\u2019s happening in the feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The voters who will decide this election \u2014 Hispanic men, suburban women, young people \u2014 are feeling the economic pain in their daily lives, and they\u2019re talking about it on social media, not cable news panels.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Berkshire Edge published one of the sharpest strategic analyses we\u2019ve seen for 2026<\/a>: a deep mapping of Bank of America Institute\u2019s \u201cjaws of the crocodile\u201d data \u2014 middle-income suburban households now showing the kind of financial stress that used to be exclusive to lower-income families \u2014 onto the exact competitive districts where we can win. Hispanic men are getting squeezed by tariff-driven inflation on goods and wages. Suburban women are navigating healthcare uncertainty and rising property taxes. Young people are watching their economic futures get narrower in real time. These aren\u2019t abstract policy stakes; they\u2019re real economic pain. The candidates who speak to that reality \u2014 specifically, personally, and in the right channels \u2014 are the ones who will win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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