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Four analyses are pointing at related pieces of the same large Democratic advantage in the 2026 midterms, and together they describe a strange Democratic lead that was already visible in the early vote. @TruthAnswersAll “15% Band” formula shows the final Senate and governor results fit a simple pattern: Republicans received about 85% of Trump’s 2024 share, while Democrats received Harris’s 2024 share plus 15% of Trump’s. The shift was roughly constant across red and blue states. @DataRepublican noted that a consistent ~15-point shift toward Democrats was already visible in the early vote once in-person early voting ramped up, and that the final results matched what the early numbers had been showing. I examined the early-vote registration data. Early ballots were up roughly 16 million from 2022. In states that report party registration, those ballots were about 42.6% Democrat and 31% Republican. A Democratic candidate advantage on the order of 14 million would require roughly 89% of the added early ballots to have gone Democratic — a concentration that does not line up with the reported registration split. @WallStreetApes compiled the EAVS report figures showing ~20.3 million new valid voter registrations between 2022 and 2024 in 37 states that do not require documentary proof of citizenship. That volume is large enough to matter for the absolute size of the Democratic edge. The numbers connect through scale and timing. The ~15-point shift measured in the finals and already visible in the early vote is the outcome. My ~89% figure is the concentration among new early ballots that should have been required to produce a margin of that size given the registration composition. Wall Street Apes supplies a large pool of new registrations that could contribute to the absolute number of additional ballots. Together, the analyses describe a large Democratic advantage that started early and was unusually uniform.