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Programming note! Our final podcast before the election is today, Oct. 29, 2026. David and I will take all your questions about the midterms live at 2:00 PM Eastern. Please join us! Paying members can ...

Black voters made up a larger share of the electorate than in 2024, helping to (maybe) flip Mississippi's Senate seat ...

Final early voting records from Texas, Georgia, and now North Carolina show Democrats benefiting from an “engagement gap” ...

While low-engagement voters favored Trump over Kamala Harris by 13 points in 2024, low-engagement likely voters now favor Democrats in congressional races by 2 points. That’s a 15-point swing toward ...

Welcome to the Strength In Numbers Election Day live blog! This page is your one-stop shop for all things data-driven commentary on Election Day 2026. A few links and reminders for you: First, my last ...

Latino voters more than doubled, from 1.5% of early voters to 3.4%, and voters under 30 went from 8% to 11%. And Republicans under 45 cast fewer early ballots than they did in 2022 — even as the total ...

As of writing, Democrats have won back their majorities in the U.S. House and Senate in a historic thumpin’ for the Republican Party. That Democrats have won both chambers is not a surprise — our ...

This post is part of The Data Lab, a dedicated section of Strength In Numbers for extra charts, general polling wonkery, and methods work that can be a little too nerdy for the normal editorial ...

A mailbag episode about Democrats’ huge early voting numbers, the almost-final polls in key Senate races, and everything else ...

Our new November Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats leading the 2026 U.S. House generic ballot, 47% to 42% for Republicans. In a survey experiment, when respondents are told ...

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