<p>Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s deeply conservative 7th District yielded two things for Republicans: a win, and widespread panic. On The Downballot podcast this week, co-hosts David Nir and David Beard explain why Democrat Aftyn Behn’s 13-point overperformance rightly has the GOP terrified. This was no sleepy, low-turnout affair. Voter participation was at midterm levels, which means that dozens of slightly bluer but still very red Republican seats could be in play next year. Look out!</p><p><p>Subscribe to The Downballot!</p></p><p>The Davids also chat with Lou Jacobson, the new senior author of one of the most seminal resources in the world of election nerdery: the Almanac of American Politics. Jacobson tells us how this massive, 2,000-page tome gets updated every two years, and how he’s bringing the Almanac into the digital era by offering updates <a target="_blank" href="https://almanacofamericanpolitics.substack.com/">on a new Substack site</a>—including profiles of every freshly gerrymandered district in the country.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Downballot at <a href="https://www.the-downballot.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">www.the-downballot.com/subscribe</a>