Red Mirage 2024. It’s not clear whether 2024 will bring another red mirage and subsequent blue shift. As election officials rush to count votes, those of us keeping track at home may see a red mirage before a blue shift in the presidential election results.

The red mirage phenomenon is an expectation that republican voters are more likely to cast their ballots in person, whereas democrats are more likely to vote by mail. That created a red mirage on election night, when the state’s early counts of election day votes favored trump.