What To Expect Between Now And Election Day

Publish Date: 2022/9/6

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Labor Day traditionally marks the time when general election campaigning truly ramps up – summer vacation is over, TV ads flood the airways and pollsters switch their models from registered voters to likely voters. In this installment, the crew plays a game of midterm trivia and analyzes the press coverage surrounding the latest decline in life expectancy.

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What To Expect Between Now And Election Day

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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What can history tell us about the final two months of the midterms?

How should we interpret the latest U.S. life expectancy numbers?

What are the political implications of declining life expectancy?

How do polls typically change in the final two months of a midterm campaign?

What can we expect during the final stretch of the midterms?

How do undecided voters generally make up their minds in midterm elections?

What was the average number of U.S. House seats lost by the president's party in a midterm election since 1946?

What percentage of Americans said they had given quite a lot of thought to the upcoming congressional midterm elections in the summer of 2002?

What percentage of 2018 pro-democratic U.S. House race ads mentioned the issue of health care?

Name one of the top two concerns for Republican voters in the 1986 midterm election.

What percentage of Americans got most of their news about the midterm elections from the internet in November 2006?

In 1994, what percentage of registered voters said they preferred the Republican Party on the generic congressional ballot?

Which midterm year had the largest landslide with the most seats flipped by one party?

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FiveThirtyEight Politics

Chapters

What can history tell us about the final two months of the midterms?

How should we interpret the latest U.S. life expectancy numbers?

What are the political implications of declining life expectancy?

How do polls typically change in the final two months of a midterm campaign?

What can we expect during the final stretch of the midterms?

How do undecided voters generally make up their minds in midterm elections?

What was the average number of U.S. House seats lost by the president's party in a midterm election since 1946?

What percentage of Americans said they had given quite a lot of thought to the upcoming congressional midterm elections in the summer of 2002?

What percentage of 2018 pro-democratic U.S. House race ads mentioned the issue of health care?

Name one of the top two concerns for Republican voters in the 1986 midterm election.

What percentage of Americans got most of their news about the midterm elections from the internet in November 2006?

In 1994, what percentage of registered voters said they preferred the Republican Party on the generic congressional ballot?

Which midterm year had the largest landslide with the most seats flipped by one party?

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What To Expect Between Now And Election Day