Jack, Democrats swept Tuesday's major elections, winning a landslide victory on an abortion referendum in Ohio, a state Supreme Court seat in crucial swing state Pennsylvania (protecting the rule of law ahead of Trump's attempts to steal the 2024 election), the governorship in deep-red Kentucky, and full control of the Virginia legislature by flipping the state House and keeping the state Senate.

This is a continuation of a winning streak that has been going on all year long, but you might not know that because traditional news outlets are addicted to horse race coverage of next year's presidential election. Just take a quick glance at the headlines:

Serious analysts know that polls taken a year before an election mean very little, but the traditional media is still obsessed with these surveys anyway—not really a surprise, since Beltway pundits definitely aren't serious.

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