Is it coming? Is the blue wave real?

Democrats don’t like talking about a big wave sweeping them along to communal victory. It’s triggering. It dredges up harrowing memories of, say, that time polls on election eve showed them leading the state of Iowa by 3 points, only to see Donald Trump crush them by 13.

But something is said to be stirring in the land. You can tell it by where the president has been campaigning of late, in red states like South Carolina, Kansas, Texas. Even Mississippi.

“Many of the biggest swings in polling are in states with large Hispanic populations, and in states where Democrats have recently lost a ton of working-class white voters,” says Ben Anderstone, of Progressive Strategies NW, a Seattle political consulting firm.

However, he adds: “Neither description really fits Washington state.”

We are largely spectators of the election tumult of 2026.…