Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
Success makes you less intimidated by things.
Voters' memories will fade some.
To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.