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r/fivethirtyeight • u/Brooklyn_MLS • 6h ago
Poll Results InsiderAdvantage Poll (TX Senate): Paxton 49%, Talarico 48% — Paxton +1
r/fivethirtyeight • u/alabasterskim • 6h ago
Election Model Silver Bulletin Forecast: KS SEN moves to a tie (from R+0.5%)
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 • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 5h ago
Poll Results Americans don’t want the Fort Hood shooter’s execution to be live-streamed, broadly speaking
r/fivethirtyeight • u/ShreckAndDonkey123 • 11h ago
Politics James Talarico raised $64M in the 3rd quarter, the largest third-quarter haul of any Senate candidate in history
politico.comr/fivethirtyeight • u/PM_ME_YOUR_FAV_HIKE • 3h ago
Politics The GOP’s midterm lifeline: Maybe the polls are wrong
politico.comr/fivethirtyeight • u/Obversa • 4h ago
Poll Results Frustrated with Trump, voters overwhelmingly want change in Washington, an AP-NORC poll finds
r/fivethirtyeight • u/shield_x • 2h ago
Meme/Humor Marx Campaign Touts Poll Showing a Tie With Weiser, Omits That It's Only in CO's Reddest District
r/fivethirtyeight • u/Beginning_Bad_868 • 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.
r/fivethirtyeight • u/Large_Ad_3095 • 6h ago
Polling Average Generic Ballot Average Update: Dems Clear 50%, Open Up Biggest Lead Yet
r/fivethirtyeight • u/FreeChickenDinner • 4h ago
Poll Results 'Absolutely stunning' Enten unpacks Trump's dismal new Fox poll
r/fivethirtyeight • u/dleonard1122 • 11h ago
Poll Results [Marist] Iowa Poll: Josh Turek 48%, Ashley Hinson 45% | Rob Sand 52%, Zach Lahn 45%
maristpoll.marist.edur/fivethirtyeight • u/Delmer9713 • 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)
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 • u/Beginning_Bad_868 • 10h ago
Poll Results Texas Senate; ActiVote; 400 LV; Talarico D+4
r/fivethirtyeight • u/R2_SWE2 • 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
r/fivethirtyeight • u/Novel_Willingness602 • 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?
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 • u/Delmer9713 • 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
aarp.orgThis poll used Cook Political Report’s House ratings
r/fivethirtyeight • u/wannagowest • 15m ago
Meme/Humor Good use of polling or bad use of polling?
r/fivethirtyeight • u/Delmer9713 • 7h ago
