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Analysis · Call the MapOct 18, 8:00 AM ET

The Drift

Fifty years of presidential elections, state by state and county by county. In 1976, 22 of the 50 states and D.C. voted within 5 points of the country as a whole. In 2024, eight did. Along the way 27 of them crossed from one side of the nation to the other, and the countryside, which voted 4 points more Democratic than the big cities in 1976, voted 58 points more Republican than them in 2024.

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Most covered races

  1. Texas · Governor11 stories · latest Oct 26 · most mentioned: Gina Hinojosa
  2. Texas · Senate11 stories · latest Oct 26 · most mentioned: Ken Paxton
  3. Alaska · Senate10 stories · latest Oct 27 · most mentioned: Dan Sullivan
  4. Michigan · Senate10 stories · latest Oct 26 · most mentioned: Abdul El-Sayed
  5. Ohio · Governor8 stories · latest Oct 26 · most mentioned: Amy Acton
  6. Nevada · Governor6 stories · latest Oct 25 · most mentioned: Aaron Ford
  7. Ohio · Senate4 stories · latest Oct 24 · most mentioned: Sherrod Brown
  8. Mississippi · Senate3 stories · latest Oct 26 · most mentioned: Cindy Hyde-Smith
About & sourcesCoverage, fetch health and provenance53 outlets

Headlines open at their original publishers. The roster describes coverage, not ideology or forecast weight; every story has zero model weight.

Times are Eastern. The Wire shows English-language coverage (1 of 126 items this sweep were filed in another language and are held back, not deleted), one row per story, and no more than 2 stories from one outlet at a time.

  • Ballotpedia News ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 12:02 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
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  • CBS News Politics ↗Independent coverage7 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 8:54 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • CNalysis ↗Independent coverage2 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 8, 10:00 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • CommonWealth Beacon ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 24, 1:26 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Connecticut Mirror ↗Independent coverage3 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 3:57 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Connecticut Public ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 5:10 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • El Paso Matters ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 20, 12:18 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Election Law Blog ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 8:36 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • FactCheck.org ↗Independent coverage6 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 4:44 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Honolulu Civil Beat ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 25, 6:01 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Houston Public Media ↗Independent coverage3 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 12:54 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • InDepthNH ↗Independent coverage2 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 25, 4:30 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Iowa Public Radio politics ↗Independent coverage3 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 2:07 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Iowa Starting Line ↗Independent coverage2 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 2:09 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • KFF Health News ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 5:00 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
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  • Michigan Public ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 25, 9:28 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Mississippi Free Press ↗Independent coverage4 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 12:44 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Mississippi Today ↗Independent state newsroom1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 3:28 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Montana Public Radio ↗Independent coverage3 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 15, 1:58 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • MPR News ↗Independent coverage2 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 7:21 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • New York Focus ↗Independent coverage2 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 14, 12:00 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
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  • Oklahoma Watch ↗State reporting1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 21, 12:00 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • PBS NewsHour Politics ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 25, 4:11 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
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  • Reason ↗Independent coverage3 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 7:00 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
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  • Semafor ↗Independent national analysis7 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 4:55 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Signal Cleveland ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 2:30 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • Signal Ohio Statehouse ↗Independent coverage2 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 23, 2:30 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • South Dakota News Watch ↗Independent coverage3 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 22, 5:00 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
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  • Texas Observer ↗Independent coverage4 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 10:21 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
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  • The Assembly NC ↗Independent coverage1 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 22, 6:15 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • The Downballot ↗Left-leaning race analysis3 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 8:03 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • The Guardian US politics ↗Independent coverage3 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 9:00 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • The Nevada Independent politics ↗Independent coverage8 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 25, 5:00 AM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
  • VTDigger ↗Independent coverage2 / 126 stories · latest story Oct 26, 5:35 PM ET · latest sweep Oct 26, 9:32 PM ET · outlet fetch succeeded
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HEADLINES WITH ATTRIBUTION — display links only; no forecast weight

Source · curated RSS, 123 outlets (news_outlets.json) — a hand-curated whitelist of state and national outlets, not an open crawl. Matching is conservative: a story attaches to a race only on a name/keyword entity match, so some relevant coverage will be missed rather than mis-filed.

Feed health · partial coverage107 of 123 whitelisted outlets returned a successful fetch in the latest sweep (87% coverage); 16 failed and are carrying nothing new. The roster above counts outlets with stories in this edition, which includes ones carried over from an earlier sweep.

  • Georgia Public Broadcasting · publisher blocked the fetch (HTTP 403); nothing new fetched
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