r/fivethirtyeight • • 3d ago

Discussion Megathread Weekly Discussion Megathread

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The 2026 midterms will soon be upon us, and there is much to discuss among the nerds here at r/FiveThirtyEight. Use this discussion thread to share, debate, and discuss whatever you wish. Unlike individual posts, comments in the discussion thread are not required to be related to political data or other 538 mainstays. Regardless, please remain civil and keep this subreddit's rules in mind. The discussion thread refreshes every Monday.


r/fivethirtyeight • • 2h ago

Election Model Inside Elections shifts 19 house races in favor of Democrats, including among other things Wyoming's at large district to Likely R.

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 6h ago

Poll Results InsiderAdvantage Poll (TX Senate): Paxton 49%, Talarico 48% — Paxton +1

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 6h ago

Election Model Silver Bulletin Forecast: KS SEN moves to a tie (from R+0.5%)

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This was R+0.5% yesterday (which was trending slowly more R from R+0.3% 2 weeks ago). The blue dot suggests to me it might be even a small fraction in Hamilton's favor.

Unrelated: MN is down from 8% a few days ago.

Edit: Also the odds of 53D seats is higher than it's ever been (15%) & 54D seats is back to only fractionally behind 52D (13.6% vs 13.9% respectively). 52D is still the Deluxe forecast.


r/fivethirtyeight • • 5h ago

Poll Results Americans don’t want the Fort Hood shooter’s execution to be live-streamed, broadly speaking

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 11h ago

Politics James Talarico raised $64M in the 3rd quarter, the largest third-quarter haul of any Senate candidate in history

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 3h ago

Politics The GOP’s midterm lifeline: Maybe the polls are wrong

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 4h ago

Poll Results Frustrated with Trump, voters overwhelmingly want change in Washington, an AP-NORC poll finds

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 2h ago

Meme/Humor Marx Campaign Touts Poll Showing a Tie With Weiser, Omits That It's Only in CO's Reddest District

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 6h ago

Poll Results Gallup - What party will do a better job of keeping the country prosperous?; D+14. Biggest result for Democrats since 2007 and third best in the last 34 years. Every single time the Dems had a +10 advantage they won the House & the Senate.

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 6h ago

Polling Average Generic Ballot Average Update: Dems Clear 50%, Open Up Biggest Lead Yet

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 4h ago

Poll Results 'Absolutely stunning' Enten unpacks Trump's dismal new Fox poll

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 11h ago

Poll Results [Marist] Iowa Poll: Josh Turek 48%, Ashley Hinson 45% | Rob Sand 52%, Zach Lahn 45%

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 1h ago

Poll Results [Albuquerque Journal/Research and Polling] New Mexico's 1st Congressional District: Melanie Stansbury (D) 53%, Ndidiamaka Okpareke (R) 35% | New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District: Teresa Leger Fernández (D) 53%, Martin Zamora (R) 39% among likely voters (more info below)

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Article linked above, but it's behind a paywall.

New Mexico's 1st Congressional District includes about 75% of Albuquerque, also including most of Bernalillo County, all of Torrance County, and parts of Sandoval, Santa Fe, and Valencia counties.

NM-01 is 45.5% White, 41% Latino, 4.2% Native American.

Previous NM-01 Election Results:

2018: Haaland 58.1-41.8

2022: Stansbury 55.7-45.2

2024: Harris 52-46 | Heinrich 55-45 | Stansbury 56.3-43.6

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New Mexico's 3rd Congressional Districts spans all of northern New Mexico and loops across the eastern part of the state. It includes the state capital Santa Fe. It also has a significant Native American population

NM-03 is 42.4% Hispanic, 34.5% White, 17.6% Native American

Previous NM-03 Election Results

2018: Lujan 63.4-31.2

2022: Leger Fernandez 58.2-41.8

2024: Harris 52-46 | Heinrich 55-45 | Leger Fernandez 56.3-43.7


r/fivethirtyeight • • 10h ago

Poll Results Texas Senate; ActiVote; 400 LV; Talarico D+4

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 9h ago

Poll Results Generic Ballot Oct 8 - 12, 2026: Democrat (D) 47% (+9.0%), Republican (R) 38% Don’t know 15%. AP-NORC 925 RV

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 9h ago

Discussion What are the earlier-in-the-night House races that will gauge blue splash vs. blue wave vs. blue tsunami election night?

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What races in the House are you going to be looking at that, more earlier in the night (before 9pm) will tell us the tale of what's going on? Interested to hear in what I should be looking for early on.

And of course, I gave three scenarios, but I guess I should also put purple splash in case Dems have a surprisingly underwhelming night.


r/fivethirtyeight • • 6h ago

Politics FLIPR 2026 Senate forecast

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 7h ago

Poll Results [AARP/Fabrizio, Lee, & Associates/Impact Research] Poll of 43 Tossup and Lean Congressional Districts: Generic Ballot - Democrat 49%, Republican 46% | In 2024, Trump won these districts by a six point margin

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This poll used Cook Political Report’s House ratings


r/fivethirtyeight • • 15m ago

Meme/Humor Good use of polling or bad use of polling?

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 7h ago

Poll Results [Beacon Research] New York Poll: Kathy Hochul 53%, Bruce Blakeman 31% among registered voters

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 6h ago

FLIPR 2026 House forecast

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 3h ago

Welcome to midterm silly season 🤡

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 6h ago

FLIPR 2026 Governors forecast

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r/fivethirtyeight • • 8h ago

Poll Results Wedgewood poll(?) of 511 LV: MS-SEN: Hyde-Smith (R) 52, Colom (D) 48

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