Midterm Pulse2026US Electionsby Jorge Garcelán
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What's moving now headlines, polls and markets, minute by minute.What's moving now

Headlines from eight newsrooms, every new public poll and every prediction-market swing, in one wire that refreshes itself.

Sources: the newsrooms' RSS feeds, the polls of VoteHub (CC BY 4.0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Polymarket

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Until polls open · Nov 3
House · Polymarket—D control
Senate · Polymarket—D control
Generic ballot—weighted poll average
Toss-ups · experts—Cook, Inside Elections, Sabato

Headlines link to the original publishers and are auto-tagged with transparent keyword rules. Polls: VoteHub (CC BY 4.0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), two-party toplines only. Markets: Polymarket state Senate winner markets that moved 3+ points in 24 hours.

THE EXPERTS

60 rating changes by the experts since November 3: 14 toward the Democrats, 46 toward the Republicans.

Alaska SenateSabatoToss-up → Lean DGeorgia SenateIELean D → Likely DGeorgia SenateSabatoSafe D → Likely DIowa SenateIELean R → Toss-upKansas SenateIELean R → Toss-upKansas SenateSabatoLean D → Toss-upKentucky SenateCookLikely R → Safe RLouisiana SenateCookLikely R → Safe RLouisiana SenateIESafe R → Likely RMaine SenateCookLean D → Toss-upMaine SenateSabatoLikely D → Toss-upMichigan SenateCookLikely D → Toss-upMichigan SenateIEToss-up → Tilt DMichigan SenateSabatoLikely D → Lean DMinnesota SenateCookLikely D → Lean DMississippi SenateSabatoSafe R → Likely RMontana SenateCookLikely R → Safe RMontana SenateSabatoLikely R → Safe RNorth Carolina SenateSabatoSafe D → Likely DNebraska SenateIELikely R → Tilt RNew Hampshire SenateCookLikely D → Lean DNew Hampshire SenateIELean D → Tilt DNew Hampshire SenateSabatoSafe D → Likely DOhio SenateIEToss-up → Tilt DOhio SenateSabatoLean D → Toss-upSouth Carolina SenateCookToss-up → Lean RSouth Carolina SenateIELean R → Tilt RTexas SenateIEToss-up → Tilt DTexas SenateSabatoLikely D → Toss-upAL-02SabatoLean D → Toss-upCO-03SabatoLean R → Likely RCO-05SabatoLean D → Toss-upFL-04CookLikely R → Safe RFL-07SabatoLean R → Likely RFL-09SabatoLean R → Likely RFL-14SabatoLean D → Toss-upFL-22SabatoLean D → Toss-upKY-06SabatoLean R → Toss-upMI-01SabatoLikely R → Safe RMI-04SabatoLean D → Toss-upMI-07SabatoLean D → Toss-upMI-10SabatoLean D → Toss-upMO-02SabatoLean R → Toss-upMT-01SabatoLean D → Toss-upNC-07CookLikely R → Safe RNC-09SabatoLikely R → Safe RNC-13SabatoLikely R → Safe RNC-14CookLikely R → Safe RNJ-02SabatoLean R → Likely RNY-17SabatoLean R → Toss-upOH-07SabatoLean D → Toss-upOH-09SabatoLean D → Toss-upPA-01SabatoLean D → Toss-upTN-05SabatoLikely R → Safe RTN-09CookLikely R → Safe RTN-09SabatoLikely R → Safe RTX-35SabatoLean D → Toss-upVA-01SabatoLean D → Toss-upVA-05CookLean R → Likely RVA-05SabatoLean D → Toss-up

Expert ratings are a dated snapshot of Cook Political Report, Inside Elections and Sabato's Crystal Ball, compared with the snapshot archived on each earlier day.

THE MODEL · MP-26

How the model has moved kept apart from the independent sources above.

The forecast today against November 3: chamber odds, the races that moved most and races that changed favourite.

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House · D majority99%±0 pts since November 3
Senate · D majority77%±0 pts since November 3
Generic ballotD+7.7was D+7.7
Races that changed favourite28 changed rating band

MP-26 · CHAMBER ODDS

Chance of a Democratic majority

50%99%77%2026-10-092026-11-05

25 archived runs

BIGGEST MOVES

Races that moved most