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2026 House Vote Tracker (Subscriber Version)

The Cook Political Report’s 2026 House Vote Tracker follows the national House popular vote as ballots are counted after the ...
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Five Midterm Takeaways from The Cook Political Report Team

As we wrote in the hours after the election this week, the 2026 midterms represented a stunning rebuke of the president’s ...
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As Michigan Moves to Lean Democrat, Here Are Our Final Senate Ratings — and What Else We're Watching

Election Day is finally upon us — and while Senate control could still swing either way, Democrats have the momentum in the ...
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Four Days Out, a Dozen More House Races Move Toward Democrats

As the House battleground map has expanded, Democrats now have the potential to win their largest majority since 2009.
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Post-Election Analysis: The Annihilation of the Trump Coalition

Ten years ago, Donald Trump shocked the political world with an Electoral College victory that hurled defiance at the polls, ...
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Closing Senate Analysis: The Seven States That Will Decide the Majority

Control of the Senate is hanging in the balance, with seven key races still within the margin of error, giving both parties a ...
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GOP Is Losing Control of Events—and Trump Owns It All

President Trump will own this election—not in the sense that many of his MAGA supporters use the word "own," expressing their ...
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We Know Democrats Will Have a Good Night on Tuesday. But Will It Be a ‘Once in a Generation’ Win?

The question for Tuesday night isn’t whether it will be a good night for Democrats (it will be), but whether it will be a historic one.We expect Democrats to handily win control of the House, with the ...
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2026 Is the ‘Back to the Future’ Midterm

In 2018, during Trump 1.0, voters in what I coined as “Whole Foods suburbs” — upper-income, white-collar districts that had ...
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An Hour-by-Hour Election Night Guide to the Race for the House

Although Democrats are in a strong position to win control of the House, the magnitude of the expected blue wave is still in ...
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Voters Are Furious About Corruption. But What Does ‘Corruption’ Actually Mean to Them?

The issue of corruption has rocketed to the top of voters’ priority lists, with broad majorities citing it as a top election ...
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A Unicorn Election in Red America

Next Tuesday will be a unicorn election, certainly unlike any of the 11 midterm and 11 presidential elections I have covered.